RunBlogRun presents Audio coverage of the 4x400m Mixed Relay at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, NED, March 6, 2025

This is audio coverage of the EICH 2025 Mixed Relay, in which the Dutch team, anchored by Femke Bol, ended the first evening in Apeldoorn!

RunBlogRun presents Audio coverage of the 4x400m Mixed Relay

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at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, NED.

Audio coverage provided by Larry Eder

Photo credits: Maja Hitij/Getty Images for European Athletics

Chiara Montesano, Marta Gorczynska for European Athletics

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The first night of the European Indoors in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, was, well, stupendous! I recorded the audio on the Mixed

Relay, because I wanted you, dear global readers, to appreciate the absolute excitement of the Dutch crowd with the first session of the Apeldoorn 2025.

The heats of the 1,500 meters, 60 meter men’s hurdles kept us enthralled.

Femke Bol takes gold for the Netherlands, Day 1, photo by Chiara Montesano for European Athletics

But it was the Mixed Relay that would take the major stage. The LOC folks who decided to open the champs with a race where Femke Bol, European superstar competed, was, well, brilliant. Americans can not appreciate Femke Bol, without seeing her in her natural surroundings.

Her coach, Laurent Mewley, did not want Femke running five times. He did approve Lieke Klaver racing the 400m and 4x400m relay. Femke was allowed to run both relays.

The Mixed relay lived up to the hype. It was super competitive with Belgium, Spain and the Dutch battling for European supremacy. The Mixed Relay was anchored by Femke Bol. And Femke delivered! What a race.

I hope that you enjoy the audio.

Special thanks to production work and wonderful photos from European Athletics, with the final mixing by Mike Deering! Please enjoy!

Author

Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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