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Superb Bol strikes double gold after anchoring Dutch team to relay title / Photo: © AFP
Superb Bol strikes double gold after anchoring Dutch team to relay title
Femke Bol produced an astonishing anchor leg for the Netherlands in the women's 4x400m relay on Sunday to claim her second gold medal of the World Athletics Championships. in Budapest.
Bol began the championships in disastrous fashion by falling and dropping the baton as she closed in on the line in the 4x400m mixed relay.
She went on to totally dominate the 400m hurdles event, easily taking gold.
On Sunday, in the final event of these championships, Bol took the baton well down in third place for the fourth and final lap and gradually made up ground on Jamaica's Stacey Ann Williams and Britain's Nicole Yeargin.
Entering the home straight, the crowd rose to their feet as Bol accelerated past Yeargin and in a dramatic finish pipped Williams to the line.
She literally staggered from there into the arms of her three relay teammates, collapsing to the track after her breath-taking effort.
The Dutch took gold in 3min 20.72sec, with Jamaica claiming silver in 3:20.88 and Britain rounding out the podium in 3:21.04.
L. Araujo--JDB
