Sport

Nina Derwael World Champion on the uneven bars

13 November 2018

At the Artistic Gymnastics Championship in Qatar, our 18-year-old compatriot has won a gold medal, the first Belgian ever to do so.

32 Belgian representatives and a record medal haul at the Youth Olympic Games

30 October 2018

The third Youth Olympic Games ended on 18 October 2018 in Buenos Aires. The 4,000 athletes included 32 Belgians competing in no fewer than 20 different sports.

Belgian skydivers are world champions

26 October 2018

HayaBusa, the Belgian military team of skydivers, was successful in extending its world formation title this month.

Belgians take gold and silver at the Cancun Judo Grand-Prix

23 October 2018

Sami Chouchi clinches gold in the -81kg category and Gabriella Willems silver in the -70kg category. These are the first medals received by our two judokas at such an international level.

An unforgettable first for the Belgian Cats

11 October 2018

The women's national basketball team really impressed in their first World Cup. The Belgian Cats won a string of matches, reaching a 4th place they could hardly have dared dream of.

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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