Femke Bol and Karsten Warholm broke championship records in the 400 metres hurdles on the fifth day of the European Championships in Munich on Friday night.
Women’s 400 metres hurdles:
Femke Bol completed ta unique double by winning the women’s 400 metres hurdles in a championship record of 52.67 a few days after her win in the 400 metres in her PB of 49.44. Bol added these two medals to her collection of medals, which includes the Olympic bronze medal in Tokyo in 2021 and the world silver in Eugene in 2022 in the 400 metres hurdles.
Femke Bol: “Winning this gold medal is a big relief. It was a great race for me. I am very surprised to achieve such a fine time. It was mentally hard to race the 400 metres without hurdles. I am so proud to achieve the duuble. I will never do the double again. Well, maybe. Never say never. I knew if nothing strange happens, I would get this medal. This race was pretty hard. It was not easier than the 400m flat”.
Bol could win her third gold medal with the Dutch 4×400 relay, which fetaures her compatriot Lieke Klaver, who finished fourth at the World Championships in Eugene.
Ukraine won silver and bronze medals with Viktoriya Tkachuk (54.30) and Anna Ryzhykova (54.86).
Sara Gallego from Spain also ran a good race finishing fourthin 54.97.
Men’s 400 metres hurdles final:
Olympic champion and world record holder Karsten Warholm won his second consecutive European gold medal in the men’s 400m hurdles in 47.42, breaking the championship record held by German Harald Schmid with 47.48 since Athens 1982.
Warholm has also won two world gold medals in London 2017 and Doha 2019 and the Olympic title with the world record of 47.12.
Karsten Warholm: “I had a very tough season with injuries, so to be here and bounce back means a world. I learned that I should have never taken anything like this for granted. I am going to enjoy it even more because it was tough. I hope that I can be injury-free and train at the high level again so you could never count me. A championship record is huge. Now for German beers. My friends and family are here, as well as a lot of fans from Norway. I am so happy to have them. This was one of the competitions for me this year. I am looking forward to train hard and to compete next year”.
Wilfried Happio from France won the silver medal in 48.56 one month after finishing fourth at the World Championships in 47.41. Yasmani Copello from Turkey claimed bronze medal in 48.78 edging…
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