, author: Ermakova M.

Femke Bol breaks 40-year record in the 400m

Yarmila Kratokhvilova established the previous achievement in 1982.

Dutch athlete Femke Bol set a new world record in the 400 meters indoors - 49.26 seconds.

She won the Dutch winter championship with this result.

The record lasted almost 41 years: the previous achievement - 49.59 - belonged to Yarmila Kratokhvilova from Czechoslovakia, she set it on March 7, 1982.

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