Relay team 4×400 meters mixed grabs silver at World Championships in athletics | Sport

Femke Bol is still almost donating the gold to the Netherlands.

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sport">Dutch athletics has already celebrated international success in the 4×400 meters. The men’s team even won silver at the Tokyo Olympics last year and also won the World Relays and the European Indoor Championships.

sport">No medal had yet been won in the relatively new mixed relay event. Bonevacia, Klaver, Bol and Ramsey Angela finished fourth in Tokyo last year.

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sport">Jessica Schilder qualified for the final of the shot put. The 23-year-old Volendam came to a distance of 19.16 meters in her first attempt in the qualifications in the Hayward Field stadium. That was well over the required 18.90 meters to force a final spot.

sport">Schilder surprised in February with a punch of 19.72 meters indoors, a distance with which she suddenly led the world ranking. In March international success followed with the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade. She continued her progression in the open air by breaking the Dutch record almost every game. At the NK in Apeldoorn at the end of June she set it at 19.68 meters.

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Jessica Painter in action.

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sport">Schilder finished fourth in the qualifiers. The Chinese Lijiao Gong, reigning Olympic champion, was the best with 19.51.

sport">Jorinde van Klinken and Benthe König, the other two Dutch athletes in the shot put, did not reach the final. Van Klinken recorded 18.19 meters and World Cup debutante König came to 17.51 ​​meters. Their distances were far from the limit distance or a spot in the top twelve.

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