World champion Femke Bol delivered a brilliant meeting record of 52.11, just 0.04 outside Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone\u2019s world lead to win the women\u2019s 400m hurdles. Running from lane six, the Dutch athlete had former Olympic and world champion Dalilah Muhammad on her immediate inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the America made her presence felt, creeping up on Bol\u2019s shoulder for the majority of the race. But Bol held firm and with three barriers remaining, she kicked clear on the finishing straight to clip 0.16 off her own three year old meeting record. Muhammad was second in 52.91, with Panama\u2019s Gianna Woodruff third in 53.99.
\u201cThis is one of my favourite stadiums so to take the Stadium Record makes me very happy,\u201d said Bol. \u201cI am not in my best shape yet so to take the victory is especially good. I was very focussed on the middle section of the race today and that went well as I pushed ahead at that stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA race is never the same as training and it is only my third race of the season so I am still feeling some lactic but I am starting to feel the hurdles better every race and getting into race shape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt is such a high level at the moment in the hurdles so I am very excited going forward towards the World Championships. I am running a couple of 400m flats next then I have London Diamond League then I go back into a big training block before Tokyo.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was yet another meeting record in the women\u2019s 100m hurdles, where the USA\u2019s Grace Stark won in 12.33 (+1.4m\/s) ahead of world indoor bronze medallist Ackera Nugent of Jamaica in 12.37 and European indoor silver medallist Nadine Visser of the Netherlands in 12.49.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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