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Olympic and world 400m hurdles medallist Femke Bol opened her season with a bang Saturday, clocking the quickest girls’s indoor 500m ever with a time of 1min 05.63sec on the Boston Indoor Grand Prix.
The Dutch runner turned the primary lady to interrupt 1:06 on the distance, breaking the earlier world better of 1:06.31 set by Russian Olesya Krasnomovets-Forsheva on January 7, 2006.
“I used to be pondering I used to be behind the tempo,” stated the 22-year-old, who’s coming off a stellar 2022 season that noticed her win European titles within the 400m hurdles, 400m flat and 4x400m relay.
She additionally gained 400m hurdles silver on the World Championships and bronze on the Olympic Video games in Tokyo.
“I hoped to get near the world document, however I’ve by no means run 500,” the 22-year-old stated.
“Indoors, it is the primary race, you haven’t any concept on the finish,” she stated. “You prepare exhausting however you understand if you begin competing. I am comfortable to go like this. I believe it is even quicker than we anticipated.”
Jamaica’s Leah Anderson was a distant second in 1:08.34.
Bol stated she’d been considering testing herself over 500m for a while.
“I believe it is by no means a nasty factor to run a bit longer as a result of I hope the 400 will really feel a bit simpler then,” she stated.
However requested if she may sometime be seen in an 800m her reply was an emphatic “no!”
Amongst different early outcomes on the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold occasion, American Heather MacLean gained the ladies’s 1,500m in a world main 4:06.07, and American Grant Holloway gained the boys’s 60m hurdles in a world main 7.38sec.
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