The world's fastest women to BAUHAUS-galan

The world's currently most successful athletics woman, Femke Bol, is coming to BAUHAUS-galan and Stockholm Olympic Stadium on the 2nd of June.

Femke Bol who last winter erased the 41-year-old and the world's oldest world record in running (400 meters) previously held by a certain Kratochvilova. Femke Bol representing the Netherlands will run her special event 400 m hurdles.

"I am happy to be back in Stockholm where I have good memories from my last race where I set the stadium record 52.27 two years ago."

Femke Bol is the world's dominant 400 m runner both with and without hurdles. At the WC in Budapest last summer, she won gold completely unchallenged in the 400 m hurdles. She also led her country to WC gold in the women's 4 x 400 m after a superb closing stretch where she sped past both the USA and Jamaica in the final stretch. Last winter she won double WC gold in both 400 m and 4 x 400 m at the indoor WC in Glasgow. She is the biggest favorite to take home the Olympic gold in the 400 m hurdles. But there is one contender, world record holder Sydney McLaughlin, who has competed sparingly since her record setting run at the WC in Eugene 2022. It is, on paper, one of the most exciting duels ahead of this summer's Paris Olympics. They are unlikely to meet at any competition before then. Femke Bol comments on her appearance at the BAUHAUS gala as follows:

"This year's race at the BAUHAUS gala is important in my preparation for the Olympic 400 m hurdles later this year."

The world's best sprinter also gives the go to the BAUHAUS-galan

The reigning world champion at 200 m, Shericka Jackson, Jamaica, has given the go to Stockholm Stadium on the 2nd of June. She is ranked number one in the world at the distance. She won the World Championships in Eugene in 2022 and Budapest in 2023. She won silver in the 100 m at the WC in Eugene and the WC in Budapest. She is the reigning Diamond League champion in both the 100 m and 200 m after winning the finals in Eugene late last summer. A Diamond League final that was perhaps the best in the history of the competition series, where, among others, Armand Duplantis set a world record in the pole vault and Gudaf Tsegay, Ethiopia, set a world record in the 5,000 m.