Naomi Van den Broeck
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| Nationality | Belgian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 January 1996 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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Naomi Van den Broeck (born 3 January 1996) is a Belgian sprinter. She had represented Belgium at multiple major championships, including 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games.
Career
[edit]She represented Belgium at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in women's 4 × 400 metres relay.[1][2] She competed at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March 2022.[3] She was also selected for the Belgian 4 x 400 m relay team for the World Championships later that year in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.[4]
She was selected for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow as part of the 4x400m relay team and was part of the quartet which qualified for the final and finished in fourth position.[5] Later in 2024, at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas, she was on the team that qualified Belgium for the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France.[6] And later that same year, she was on the Belgian 4 x 400 metres women's relay team that won a bronze medal at the European Athletics Championships.[7] At the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, she ran in the heats and final of both the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with the Belgium teams finishing 4th resp. 7th in the finals.[8][9] She also participated in the women's 400 metres hurdles reaching the semi-finals.[10]
In 2025, she signed-up to race as a challenger in the Grand Slam Track event in Miami, as a part of the women's long hurdles category.[11] In May 2025, at the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou,China, she ran as a member of the Belgium women's 4 x 400 metres relay team in the heat and repêchage round, qualifying the team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships.[12] She won the 400 metres hurdles for Belgium at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor on 28 June.[13] She qualified for the individual 400 metres hurdles race at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan by posting a personal best of 54.37s and winning the 400 metres hurdles race at the Madrid leg of the 2025 World Athletics Continental Tour.[14] At the Brussels Memorial Van Damme meeting of the 2025 Diamond League she set a Belgian national record in the women's 400 metres hurdles with a time of 54.12 seconds.[15] At the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, she ran with the Belgium women's 4 x 400 metres relay team in the heats and final of the 2025 World Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, finishing just outside the medals in fourth position in the final.[16] She posted a national record of 53.65 in the semi-finals of the 400 metres hurdles and qualified for the final.[17] In doing so, she became the third Belgian woman ever, after Kim Gevaert and Cynthia Bolingo, to reach a final of a running event and finish in the top eight. She finished a respectable sixth.[18]
Statistics
[edit]Circuit performances
[edit]| Grand Slam Track results[19] | |||||
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| Slam | Race group | Event | Pl. | Time | Prize money |
| 2025 Miami Slam | Long hurdles | 400 m hurdles | 7th | 56.63 | US$12,500 |
| 400 m | 6th | 52.26 | |||
International competitions
[edit]| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing  Belgium
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| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 7th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:23.96 |
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 6th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:33.61 |
| European Championships | Munich, Germany | 2nd (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:25.44 | |
| 16th (h) | 400 m | 52.80 | |||
| World Championships | Eugene, Oregon, USA | 4th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:28.02 | |
| 40th | 400 m | 53.16 | |||
| 2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 4th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:23.63 |
| 2024 | World Indoor Championships | Glasgow, Scotland | 4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:28.05 |
| World Relays | Nassau, The Bahamas | 1st (r) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:26.79 | |
| European Championships | Rome, Italy | 11th (sf) | 400 m | 51.65 | |
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4 × 400 m relay | 3:22.95 | |||
| 4th | 4 × 400 m relay mixed | 3:11.03 | |||
| Olympic Games | Paris, France | 18th (sf) | 400 m hurdles | 54.94 | |
| 7th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:22.40 | |||
| 4th | 4 × 400 m relay mixed | 3:09.36 | |||
| 2025 | World Championships | Tokyo, Japan | 6th | 400 m hurdles | 53.70 |
| 4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:22.15 | |||
Personal life
[edit]Van den Broeck was born in Belgium to a Senegalese mother and Belgian father. As a youth, she grew up in Belgium, South Africa, Jamaica, Ireland and Norway.[20]
References
[edit]- ^ "van den BROECK Naomi". olympics.com. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Naomi Van Den Broeck". olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ "Results: Women's 4x400m Relay World Athletics Indoor Championships 2022". Watchathletics.com. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
- ^ "België trekt met 29 atleten naar het WK in Eugene (VS)" (in Dutch). Sporza. 4 July 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ "Women's 4x400m Results – World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. 3 March 2024. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
- ^ "World Relays - Les Belgian Cheetahs décrochent leur entrée aux JO lors des repêchages du 4x400 m dames" (in French). La Libre Belgique. 6 May 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Gold and bronze for Belgian men and women in 4x400m relay" (in French). Belga (news agency). 12 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "WOMEN'S 4 X 400M RELAY FINAL RESULTS". www.olympics.com. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- ^ "4 X 400M RELAY MIXED FINAL RESULTS". www.olympics.com. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "400 METRES HURDLES WOMEN". www.olympics.com. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
- ^ Chavez, Chris (24 April 2025). "Grand Slam Track: Miami – Full Athlete Fields And Event Schedule Announced". Citiusmag.com. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
- ^ "4X400 METRES RELAY WOMEN". World Athletics. 11 May 2025. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
- ^ Broadbent, Chris (28 June 2025). "Belgium, Norway and Slovenia sit in promotion places after 2nd Division Day 1 in Maribor". European Athletics. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ^ "World Athletics Continental Tour: Naomi Van Den Broeck décroche sa place pour Tokyo avec un record personnel sur 400 m haies" [World Athletics Continental Tour: Naomi Van Den Broeck secures her place for Tokyo with a personal best in the 400m hurdles]. La Dernière Heure. 20 July 2025. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Belgisch record op de Memorial: Naomi Van den Broeck verbetert besttijd van Hanne Claes op 400m horden" [Belgian record at the Memorial: Naomi Van den Broeck improves Hanne Claes's best time in the 400m hurdles]. Sporza. 22 August 2025. Retrieved 22 August 2025.
- ^ "4x400 Metres Relay women". World Athletics. 21 September 2025. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
- ^ ""Een van de beste dagen uit mijn leven": Naomi Van den Broeck stelt BR weer scherper en snelt naar finale op de 400 meter horden" ["One of the best days of my life": Naomi Van den Broeck sharpens BR again and speeds to the final in the 400m hurdles]. Sporza. 17 September 2025. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ ""WK atletiek: ondanks commotie over Nafi Thiam presteerde België nooit zo goed in de breedte" [World Athletics Championships: Despite the commotion about Nafi Thiam, Belgium has never performed so well across the board]. Knack (magazine). 22 September 2025. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ^ "Grand Slam Track Results". Grand Slam Track. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ "Belgian Cheetah en globetrotter Naomi Van den Broeck: "Antwerpen is mijn tweede thuis"". www.gva.be. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
