Juliette Thomas (runner)
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| Nationality | Belgian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 October 2000 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Long distance running | |||||||||||||||||
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Juliette Thomas (born 30 October 2000) is a Belgian is long-distance runner. She has won senior national titles over the marathon, and the half marathon distances and she was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Running Championships in the half marathon.[1]
Biography
[edit]She is from Gaume and is a French-speaker. She has competed for Dampicourt AC in the Wallonia region of Belgium.[2][3]
She was a bronze medalist in the team event alongside Lisa Rooms and Chloé Herbiet at the 2023 European Cross Country Championships in Brussels, the first time the Belgian women's team had won a medal at the event.[4]
In January 2024, she ran the Seville half marathon in 1:10.16 to move to second on the Belgian all-time list for the distance. It was also the seventh fastest time in Belgian history in the event, with Marleen Renders holding the six fastest recorded times.[2] She won the Belgian Half Marathon Championships in May 2024 running 1:09:48 to be the highest Belgian finisher in Gentbrugge.[5] In June, she competed in the half marathon at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, running a time of 1:11:35.[6] She was named Belgian champion after placing second at the Eindhoven Marathon in October 2024 in 2:27:23.[7]
She was a silver medalist behind Chloe Herbiet at the 2025 European Running Championships in the half marathon in Leuven, Belgium, in April 2025.[8] In May 2025, in Vienna, Austria, she became the Belgian record holder in the 5km road race, running 15:21 to beat the previous record held by Jana Van Lent and set just five months prior.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Juliette Thomas". World Athletics. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ^ a b "Juliette Thomas (1h10.16 in Seville) qualifies for the half-marathon at the European Championships in Rome". dhnet.be. 28 Jan 2024. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
- ^ "Juliette Thomas, a girl who shines under the sun". Lavenir.net. 28 Jan 2024. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
- ^ "Frenzied Home Spectators Propel Robin Hendrix and Senior Teams to European Cross Country Championships Medals in Brussels". exchbrussells. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
- ^ "Belgian Half Marathon Championships". World Athletics. 10 March 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ^ "ASML Marathon Eindhoven". World Athletics. 13 Oct 2024. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
- ^ "Belgium 1-2! Herbiet and Thomas make half marathon history at European Running Championships". European Athletics. 12 April 2025. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
- ^ Reyntjens, Michiel (25 May 2025). "Juliette Thomas becomes Belgian record holder for the 5km road race". atni.be. Retrieved 7 Sep 2025.
