New Zealand will boast a ten-strong team to compete at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow (1-4 Mar NZT) after two further athletes – sprinter Tiaan Whelpton and middle-distance runner James Preston – were added to the final .
PARIS, France (AFP) Femke Bol broke her own indoor 400m world record on Sunday as she recorded a time of 49.24sec in the Dutch championships in Apeldoorn. Bol, the double world champion outdoors at 400m hurdles, improved her own record set at the same venue last year by two hundredths of a second. The 23-year-old had demonstrated she was in the form for fast times by opening her season with 49.69sec in.