World 400 meters hurdles silver medallist Femke Bol broke Olesya Krasnomovets Forsheva’s world indoor all-time best in a rare 500 meters with 1:05.63 at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in her opening competition of the indoor season at the sell-out new indoor facility. Krasnomovets clocked 1:06.31 on 7 January 2006. Bol becomes the first woman to run the 500 meters indoors under 1:06.
Bol set the second world record of her career after her 36.86 in the 300 meters hurdles in Hengelo last June. The Dutch athlete is coming off a very successful 2022 season in which she won two world silver medals in the 400 meters hurdles and in the 4×400 mixed relay in Eugene and three European gold medals in the 400 meters, the 400 meters hurdles, and in the 4×400 relay.
Femke Bol: “I thought I was behind the pace. I tried to push hard until the end. I enjoy indoor races. I hoped to get close to the world record, but I have never run the 500 meters. It’s my first indoor race over this distance. You have no idea at the end. You train hard, but you don’t know when you will start competing. I think it’s even faster than we expected. I think running a bit longer is never a bad thing because I hope the 400m will feel a bit easier then. I wanted to go out fast and keep on going. It was amazing. I could hear the crowd in the last 100 meters, which helped me so much. It was fun to do 500 meters to start the season”.
Leah Anderson finished second, setting a Jamaican indoor record with 1:08.34.
Men’s 60 meters final:
Double 200 meters world champion Noah Lyles edged out Trayvon Bromell by two-thousandths of a second in a close photo-finish, improving his PB by 0.04 to 6.51. Benjamin Azamati from Ghana placed third in 6.62 to edge out Puerto Rican record holder Miles Lewis, who missed his national record by 0.02.
Lyles is running the 60 meters to improve his start as he bids to win the 100m and the 200 meters at the World Championships in Budapest. The US star is chasing Usain Bolt’s 200 meters world record.
Noah Lyles: “I have been waiting for my PB for a long time. We are not just coming for the 200 meters world record. We are coming for all the world records. I have got a PB that is close to 6.40. In the next meeting, I feel I can get below that.”
Men’s 60 meters hurdles:
World indoor champion and record holder Grant Hollway won the men’s 60 meters hurdles for the second…
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