Sport

Climbing European Championships: two silver medals for Belgium

04 December 2020

Fantastic performances by Chloé Caulier and Nicolas Collin at the European Climbing Championships. They both brought home a silver medal from Moscow, and are now awaiting the next Olympics in Tokyo.

Silver medal at the World Breakdance Championships

03 December 2020

Belgian Maxime Blieck has taken second place in the world's biggest breakdance competition, a discipline soon to be part of the Olympics!

Three European bronze medals in judo

27 November 2020

The Belgian team has brought back three bronze medals and a fifth place from the European Judo Championship in Prague. A very enviable overall result!

An ultra-endurance world champion from Ghent

27 October 2020

No human being had ever run more than 500 kilometres in one go, but Karel Sabbe from Ghent has just broken the world record for this extraordinary discipline after racing for 75 hours without stopping

A Belgian finalist in a Roland-Garros wheelchair event

14 October 2020

After a semi-final win against the number one in the discipline, Joachim Gérard was narrowly beaten in the final of the French Open wheelchair tennis event.

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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