{"id":2305,"date":"2021-02-25T11:50:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T11:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/ones-to-watch-in-2021-bol-and-visser\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T11:50:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T11:50:18","slug":"ones-to-watch-in-2021-bol-and-visser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/ones-to-watch-in-2021-bol-and-visser\/","title":{"rendered":"Ones to watch in 2021: Bol and Visser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Dutchwoman Femke Bol has been on brilliant form this indoor season, breaking the national record in the 400m flat three times in the space of just a few weeks in January and February.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet it was in the 400m hurdles that Bol impressed last season, as she burst onto the Wanda Diamond League circuit for the first time in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With only a handful of Diamond Leauge appearances to her name before the season started, Bol took full advantage of what proved to be a fallow year for many top hurdlers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old stormed to the top of the world list with a personal best of 53.79 in her native Netherlands in July, and followed it up with back-to-back Wanda Diamond League wins in Stockholm and Rome.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her 54.68 at the BAUHAUS-Galan was Bol&#8217;s first win on the circuit, while she went under 54 seconds again to storm to victory at the Pietro Mennea Golden Gala in Rome a month later.<\/p>\n<p>With the women&#8217;s 400m hurdles currently scheduled for seven meetings in the 2021 season, Bol could return to action in both Stockholm and Rome, as well as&nbsp;in Oslo, London, Eugene, Lausanne and Paris.<\/p>\n<h3>Others to watch: Nadine Visser<\/h3>\n<p>While Bol was launching her Diamond League career in the 400m hurdles last season, her more experienced compatriot Nadine Visser made her mark on the 100m hurdles. The 26-year-old clocked the fastest time of the Diamond League season with her 12.72 in Rome, claiming her first ever Diamond League win in the process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 661\/372\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F3nplP6-gxNc&#038;video_width=661&#038;video_height=372)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"372\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3nplP6-gxNc\" width=\"661\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch rising star Femke Bol took the 400m hurdles by storm last year. Can she challenge for the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[718,216,6,757,65,735,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-718","tag-400m","tag-diamond-league","tag-femke-bol","tag-hurdles","tag-netherlands","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}