1. Femke Bol is a four-time medalist at the Olympic Games, an eight-time medalist at the World Championships, a silver medalist at the World Relays, four-time champion in the Diamond League, a twelve-time medalist at the European Championships, a gold medalist at the European Games, and a ten-time medalist at the Dutch Championships.
Femke Bol was European Athletics Rising Star of the Year in 2021 and European Athlete of the Year in 2022 and 2023.
Femke Bol was born on 23 February 2000 in Amersfoort, Netherlands.
Femke Bol worked as a volunteer scanning tickets during the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam.
Femke Bol attended secondary school in Amersfoort, after which she became a student of communication sciences at Wageningen University.
Femke Bol was forced to train on gravel paths in the woods and on grass fields when COVID-19 quarantine measures were first enacted in March 2020.
Femke Bol then won all her following seven races at the distance in four events, improving in every final.
At the former, she finished clear ahead of Shamier Little and Dalilah Muhammad, while in Zurich Femke Bol held off Little again.
In 2021, Femke Bol gradually improved her personal bests, setting eleven national records with five more as a member of relay teams.
Femke Bol set a Diamond League record, three Diamond League circuit's meet records, and five meet records at the World Athletics Indoor Tour and Continental Tour events.
Femke Bol became only the second Dutch athlete after Fanny Blankers-Koen in 1950 to win three gold medals at the event.
Femke Bol next triumphed with a meet record in Lievin.
Femke Bol continued to win three Diamond League races over hurdles in Rome, Oslo, and Lausanne, setting meet records in all three of them.
Landing face first, Femke Bol lost the relay baton over the finish line, making it impossible for the Netherlands team to legitimately finish the race and resulting in a DNF.
On 28 April, Femke Bol opened her 2024 outdoor season in Willemstad, Curacao, where she competed in two distances at the Curacao SprintFest.
Femke Bol competed in three events at the 2024 European Championships in Rome, Italy.
Femke Bol received a Golden Crown for her final hurdles performance of 1253 points, because this was the highest World Athletics score in the women's sprints and hurdles category at the championships.
Femke Bol donated her bodysuit from the race to the Museum of World Athletics the following year.
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Femke Bol competed and medalled in three events.
In January, Femke Bol announced that she was not going to compete in individual events during the 2025 indoor season, but only in relays.
Femke Bol's team, including Nick Smidt, Eveline Saalberg, and Tony van Diepen, won a gold medal in a championship record of 3:15.63 min, which made them the fastest national team of all time in this short track event.