Sport

Snooker: a dream final in Shanghai for Belgian Luca Brecel

20 September 2023

Luca Brecel narrowly lost out to snooker legend Ronnie O'Sullivan in the final of the Shanghai Masters.

Wout van Aert dominates Tour of Britain

14 September 2023

Belgian cyclist Wout van Aert has won this year’s Tour of Britain after eight days displaying dominance.

Jan Vertonghen makes 150th appearance as a Red Devil

14 September 2023

Belgian football’s defensive stronghold Jan Vertonghen now has a record-breaking 150 caps for the Red Devils to his name.

New open water swimming world record!

06 September 2023

In covering 131 kilometres without stopping, Matthieu Bonne broke the open water swimming world record previously held by Malta's Neil Agius with 125.7 kilometres.

2023 Hockey Euro: Red Panthers and Red Lions on the podium

31 August 2023

Although they were beaten in the final by the Dutch, the Belgian women's hockey team won a fine silver medal.

In Belgium, sporting passion is black-yellow-red

Who could forget the performances of our champions? Eddy Merckx, nicknamed The Cannibal with his extraordinary record, Stefan Everts and his ten motocross world championship titles and Jacky Ickx, six-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. These are just some of our sporting legends like Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin, former tennis number ones with no less than 11 Grand Slam titles between them.

Nafissatou Thiam

Today, those who make us dream include Nafissatou Thiam on the athletics track and Remco Evenepoel in cycling, not forgetting our formidable Red Devils and their international stars such as Kevin De Bruyne or Eden Hazard.

Red Devils

Alongside the achievements of our sporting ambassadors above, Belgium can also pride itself on organising major sporting events. The Spa-Francorchamps Grand Prix in Formula 1, the great cycling classics such as the Tour of Flanders and Liège-Bastogne-Liège and the Memorial Van Damme in athletics, are all examples of unmissable annual meetings…

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