400 metres hurdles
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The 400 metres hurdles is a hurdling event in track and field. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women.
Women's 400m hurdles at the 2005 GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, Finland
Home straight during a women's final at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Sydney McLaughlin right after her block start in 2019
Géo André jumps over a barrier during the 400 metres hurdles in 1922.
Femke Broeders-Bol
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Femke Broeders-Bol is a Dutch track and field athlete who has competed in sprinting, middle-distance running, and hurdling. Up to 2025, she specialized in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2023
400 metres hurdles
…USA), 2007 and 2009 Nezha Bidouane (MAR), 1997 and 2001 (won silver in 1999) Jana Pittman (AUS), 2003 and 2007 Zuzana Hejnová (CZE), 2013 and 2015 Femke Bol (NED), 2023 and 2025 * Note: Edwin Moses, Kevin Young and Karsten Warholm are the only male 400 m hurdlers to have been Olympic Champion, World Champion…
Bol with her gold 400 m hurdles medal at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest
19-year-old Bol during the 400 m hurdles at the 2019 World Championships in Doha
Bol (right) set her first senior Dutch record at the National Sports Centre in 2020.
Bol (center) during the 400 metres at the 2021 European Team Championships, where she won and set one of her eleven Dutch records from 2021.