Sport

Gold Medal in the Judo Grand Slam

11 March 2021

Belgium's Toma Nikiforov won gold for the first time in his career at the Tashkent Grand Slam tournament.

Shower of medals in athletics

08 March 2021

Never before has Belgium brought home so many medals from a European Athletics Indoor Championships. Five Belgians stepped onto the podium in Toruń!

A fifth title for David Goffin

04 March 2021

By winning the Montpellier tournament, the highest Belgian in the world tennis rankings (14th), has claimed the fifth major title of his career.

An unprecedented performance at the Alpine World Ski Championships

26 February 2021

By taking tenth place in the slalom event at the World Championships, Armand Marchant confirmed that he is indeed the best in the history of Belgian Alpine skiing.

Elise Mertens wins the doubles final at the Australian Open

23 February 2021

The Belgian won the doubles final at the Australian Open with the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka. This second Grand Slam title takes her to the top of the world rankings in this discipline.

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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