Femke Bol starts her 2022 season at Meeting Metz Metropole on 12th February. The event in France is a silver meeting on the World Athletics Indoor Tour. It will be the first chance of the new year that Bol gets to extend her unbeaten indoor record.
A positive return to Metz?
A bronze medallist over the 400m hurdles at the 2021 Olympic Games, Bol delivered an undefeated campaign indoors during 2021. She will put that unbeaten streak on the line in Metz, starting a busy period of action for the Dutch athlete.
Bol will have fond memories of Metz as she claimed the 400m title there last year and will look to open the season in style on her reappearance.
That will be ahead of a return to Torun, Poland, where the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships were hosted last year, at which Bol collected two gold medals.
The Dutch athlete broke the 51-second barrier in the 400m to claim not only a Championship record but also a Dutch National Record for what was the 11th time in the calendar year.
Busy start to the season
Femke Bol’s return to Torun this year is for the Copernicus Cup. She then moves to home soil at the Dutch Indoor Championships. Those will be all-important, competitive warm-up events ahead of the World Indoor Championships, which start on 18th March 2022, in Belgrade, Serbia.
At last year’s Olympic Games, Bol took the bronze medal in the 400m hurdles behind Sydney McLaughlin, who won with a world record time, and runner-up Dalilah Muhammad. Bol also finished the Diamond League campaign with six wins from six over the barriers.
It was all part of the big breakthrough year for Bol, a former European U20 Championship gold medallist. Her only defeat over the hurdles from 12 events during 2021 was when she collected the Olympic bronze in Tokyo.
