Femke Boll of the Netherlands has become the talk of the world's track and field fans these days. She broke the 41-year-old women's indoor 400m world record. The second-longest life world record in athletics history after the indoor women's shot put was finally broken at the feet of Femke Boll, a watery-looking 23-year-old Dutch girl.
Speaking of Femke Boll, her previous focus was the women's 400m hurdles. Starting in 2020, Boll began a whirlwind record-breaking journey. The Dutch national record for more than 20 years was originally 54.62 seconds, but Boll first broke it in July 2020 at 54.47 seconds, and then almost every battle must be broken, and finally broke the European record in 52.03 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics to finish third.
Just when Boll is thought to be a big candidate for the women's 400m hurdles world title in the next decade, the 2022 World Championships offer a big hint: she is likely to be runner-up in the next decade. Boll finished second in 52.27 seconds at the World Championships, close to his personal best; But America's McLaughlin won in 50.68 seconds and broke the world record, and Pol was thrown ten meters away by McLaughlin during the sprint, and the others were not on camera.
McLaughlin is only about six months older than Boll, assuming that neither of them will be seriously injured in their careers, according to the comparison of the results of the women's 400m hurdles final of the World Championships, won't Bol be held back by McLaurin for the entire competition career, and can only be the second oldest in the millennium?
But no 22-year-old world runner-up decided that he could only be the life of the world runner-up in his life! When Boll won the 400m at last year's European Championships in 49.44 seconds, we felt Boll's passion and ability to open up a second battle in the 400m.
Boll in 2023, coming up in the indoor competition, gave us a leap forward far beyond expectations. The 500m broke the world's best time for 17 years, and it was only a small warm-up, after all, it was not a regular event. Indoor 400 meters, the standard main event of the indoor world championships, the 49.59 seconds of Czech Kratocivilova, a bunch of god records in the 80s and 90s of the last century. Boll gave us the original estimate that the indoor 400 meters could break 50 seconds, and she actually broke it to 49.26 seconds.
The 2022 Boll race data may not have reference value in 2023, and she appears in the track and field as an all-round special enhanced version. The outdoor world record in the women's 400m was set by former East German athlete Koch in 47.60 seconds.
Now everyone is not only concerned about how much Pol can run on the outdoor 400 meters, but also about whether the 400-meter hurdles she was pressed by McLaurin can completely turn over and usher in a new era of diva!