Sport

First Belgian medal at the World Athletics Championships

20 July 2022

A year after winning the bronze medal in the marathon at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Bashir Abdi confirmed his talent with a third place at the World Athletics Championships.

World Games: an excellent medal haul for Belgium

20 July 2022

Belgian athletes won 20 medals, 11 of them gold, in non-Olympic disciplines such as squash, acrobatic gymnastics, Ju-Jitsu, rollerblading, duathlon and climbing.

World Games: Bart Swings wins rollerblading medals

13 July 2022

Bart Swings is used to winning medals in ice speed skating, but has now won five medals, four of them gold, at the roller skating World Games.

Bronze medal at the World Para Swimming Championships

30 June 2022

On her first appearance, the young Belgian swimmer Tatyana Lebrun won an excellent third place in the 100 metres breaststroke.

Joachim Gérard triumphs at Queen's

23 June 2022

The Belgian player won the wheelchair tennis tournament in both singles and doubles on the outdoor grass courts at the Queen's Club in London.

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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