Dutch hurdler and sprinter

Femke Bol

Femke Bol is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in sprinting, middle-distance running, and hurdling. Up to 2025, she specialized in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2023 and 2025 World Champion, and in the 400 metres, where she is the 2024 World Indoor Champion and the short track world record holder. Since 2026, she specializes in the 800 metres. In the 4 × 400 metres relay, she is the 2023 World Champion and the 2024 World Indoor Champion with the Dutch women's team and the 2024 Olympic Champion with the Dutch mixed team.

Born

2000

February 23

Died

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Femke, in brief

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Key dates

2000 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

303 Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
532 Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
628 Khosrow II, Shahanshah of the Sasanian Empire, is overthrown.
705 Empress Wu Zetian abdicates the throne, restoring the Tang dynasty.

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The world in 2000

When Femke arrived

april 19 Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
april 3 United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
april 30 Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
august 11 An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.

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Anton Mosimann 1947– Swiss chef and author Charlie Brandt 1957–2004 American serial killer (died 2004) Dante Lavelli 1923– American football player (died 2009) Jon Hall 1915–1979 American actor and director (born 1915) Konstantin Päts 1874–1956 Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Estonia (died 1956) Louis Stokes 1925–2015 American lawyer and politician (born 1925) Radosław Sikorski 1963– Polish journalist and politician, 11th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Régine Crespin 1927–2007 French soprano and actress (died 2007) Samuel Pepys 1633–1703 English diarist and politician (died 1703)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 2000

Carlos Yulo 2000– Filipino artistic gymnast Jackson Yee 2000– Chinese singer, dancer and actor Ja'Marr Chase 2000– American football player Joshua Bassett 2000– American actor and singer Kang Chan-hee 2000– South Korean singer and actor Mackenzie Foy 2000– American actress and model Ōnosato Daiki 2000– Japanese professional sumo wrestler and the 75th yokozuna Sarah Kinsley 2000– American singer-songwriter Sophie Nélisse 2000– Canadian actress

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