Sport

Paralympic Games: Gold medal for Peter Genyn in the 100 m

08 September 2021

At the Tokyo Games, the Belgian retained his Paralympic title of best wheelchair sprinter, winning a fourth gold medal for Belgium. In the 200 m, Peter Genyn also won the silver medal.

Paralympic Games: a record number of medals

08 September 2021

The Belgian delegation achieved the best record in its history, winning 15 Paralympic medals.

Paralympic Games: Two gold medals for Michèle George in dressage

02 September 2021

The Belgian rider won two dressage competitions at the Tokyo Olympic Games in Grade V with her mount Best of 8.

Paralympic Games: Laurens Devos wins gold in table tennis

02 September 2021

By winning gold, the Belgian table tennis player confirms his status as world number one and has achieved the Rio-Tokyo Paralympic double aged just 21. Florian Van Acker won bronze.

A Belgian world icosathlon champion

30 August 2021

In an event consisting of a combination of 20 different athletic events in two days, Arnaud Ghislain became the supreme world champion.

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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