Sport

The Red Devils qualify for the 2022 World Cup with ease

18 November 2021

Thanks to their victory against Estonia, the Belgian national football team finished top of their qualifying group for the next World Cup in Qatar.

Victory and European record at the Rotterdam marathon

27 October 2021

Bashir Abdi is the first European to win the Rotterdam Marathon since 1998, with a time of 2:03:36. He also set a new European record in this discipline.

Gold medal at the Track Cycling World Championships

27 October 2021

Lotte Kopecky won the points race, giving Belgium its first gold medal at the world championships in this discipline. The Belgians won a total of six medals.

A flawless performance for Elise Mertens in doubles

20 October 2021

Elise Mertens and Taiwanese player Su-Wei Hsieh won the women's doubles final of the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells.

Show Jumping: bronze in the final of the Nations Cup

07 October 2021

The Belgian show jumping team won bronze in this important international competition, which this year took place in Barcelona, and thus finished a fine third after the Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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, Romelu Lukaku or Thibaut Courtois.

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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