Jonathan Sacoor
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Belgian |
Born | Namur, Belgium | 1 September 1999
Sport | |
Country | Belgium |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | 400 metres |
Club | Olympic Essenbeek Halle |
Coached by | Jean-Marie Bras Jacques Borlée |
Medal record |
Jonathan Sacoor (born 1 September 1999) is a Belgian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres.[1]
Career
He first came to prominence early 2018, winning a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in a new national indoor record of 3:02.51. Later that year, he became the first ever Belgian under-20 athletics world champion by winning the gold medal in the 400m individual race at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships. He then followed up this performance with a gold in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 European Athletics Championships
He is currently a member of the University of Tennessee track and field team.[2]
His father is Mozambican, of Portuguese and Indian descent, his mother is Dutch.[3]
International competitions
1Did not finish in the final
Personal bests
Outdoor
- 200 metres – 21.35 (+0.6 m/s, Huizingen 2017)
- 400 metres – 45.03 (Tampere, 2018)
Indoor
- 200 metres – 21.58 (Ghent 2018)
- 400 metres – 46.95 (Ghent 2018)
See also
References
- ^ Jonathan Sacoor at World Athletics
- ^ "Jonathan Sacoor - Track & Field / XC".
- ^ De medaille die de pijn stilt at De Standaard, 6 March 2018.
External links
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles using sports links with data from Wikidata
- Articles with IAAF identifiers
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Belgian male sprinters
- European Championships (multi-sport event) gold medalists
- European Athletics Championships winners
- Belgian people of Dutch descent
- Belgian people of Mozambican descent
- Belgian people of Indian descent
- Indian people of Portuguese descent
- Indian people of Dutch descent
- Belgian people of Portuguese descent
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Belgium
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- Belgian Athletics Championships winners
- World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
- World Athletics U20 Championships winners
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Belgium
- Sportspeople from Namur (city)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 European Games
- European Games bronze medalists for Belgium
- European Games medalists in athletics