“It’s a good track with wide bends and I’ve seen a lot of personal bests being run, so the conditions are right,” Bol said after her race in the semi-finals, which she won in 54.16 seconds and in which she held back on the last meters. “That was deliberately to save for the final.”
Defending defender Bol to European Championship final 400 meters hurdles: ‘Consciously withheld’
