Eline Berings

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Eline Berings
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Berings at the 2012 World Indoor Championships .
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Full nameEline Berings
Born (1986-05-28) 28 May 1986 (age 38)
Ghent, Belgium
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight53 kg (117 lb)
Medal record
Representing Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Women's athletics
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2009 Turin 60 m hurdles
European Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2005 Kaunas 100 m hurdles
Updated on 28 April 2010

Eline Berings (born 28 May 1986) is a Belgian retired athlete, who competed in the 100 m hurdles. She is the 2005 European junior champion, and took her first medal as a senior by winning the 2009 European Indoor Championships. Her personal best times are 12.72 and 7.92 in the 100 and 60 m hurdles respectively.

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As of the 2023 World Athletics Championships she works as athletics commentator for the TV broadcasts of Belgian sports program Sporza. [1]

Biography

Junior career

Berings was born in Ghent. As a junior athlete she finished seventh at the 2003 World Youth Championships, failed to reach the final at the 2004 World Junior Championships, and won the gold medal at the 2005 European Junior Championships. Her personal best time in 2005, her last year as a junior, was 13.39 seconds, achieved in July 2005 in Oordegem. [2]

Senior career

In the 2005–06 indoor season, she lowered her personal best time in the 60 m hurdles from 8.48 to 8.17 seconds, in a meet in February in Ghent. In the summer she competed in the 2006 European Championships, but with a time of 13.42 seconds in the heat, she did not progress from the first round. In Oordegem during May, she had lowered her personal best time to 13.27 seconds. In the 2006–07 indoor season, she ran the 60 m hurdles in 8.07 seconds in February. Three weeks later, she competed at the 2007 European Indoor Championships, where she achieved the same time in the initial rounds. She reached the final for the first time in a senior championships, and finished eighth. In the summer she competed at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics. She did not progress from the first round, but the time of 12.97 seconds was a new personal best. [2]

Her next major event was the 2008 World Indoor Championships. Here, she achieved another personal best time of 8.05 seconds in the heats, but with 8.10 in the semi-final, she was knocked out. She performed slightly worse during the summer, with 13.09 seconds in July in Heusden-Zolder as the season's best. In the 2008–09 indoor season, she returned to form as she competed at the 2009 European Indoor Championships. [2] After 8.00 in the heats and 8.01 in the semi-final, [3] she took the gold medal ahead of Lucie Škrobáková, 2006 World Indoor Champion Derval O'Rourke and Christina Vukicevic. Her time of 7.92 seconds was a new national indoor record. [4]

She was a semi-finalist in the 60 m hurdles at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, but failed to progress beyond the heats stage at the 2010 European Athletics Championships later that year. [2] A knee injury and a serious muscle tear in her thigh brought a premature end to her 2011 season, as she missed out on defending her European indoor title. [5]

She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 100 m hurdles, reaching the semi-finals. [6]

At the 2014 European Championships, she reached the final, finishing in 8th place. [7]

Personal life

Berings studied psychology. [8] Following the end of her competitive athletic career, she began working as a sports psychologist, advising athletes such as Belgian figure skating champion Loena Hendrickx. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "David Naert en Eline Berings vormen het nieuwe commentaarduo voor het WK atletiek bij VRT" [David Naert and Eline Berings appointed new commentary duo for World Championships athletics at VRT]. Proximus Pickx (in Dutch). July 29, 2023. Archived from the original on August 20, 2023. Retrieved August 20, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Eline Berings at World Athletics OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg . Retrieved on 7 March 2009.
  3. ↑ "Results. 60m Hurdles Women". sportresult.com. European Athletics. 6 March 2009. Archived from the original on 9 March 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
  4. ↑ "Berings claims hurdles gold". ESPN STAR Sports. 7 March 2009. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
  5. ↑ Belgian hurdler Berings promises to be back stronger after surgery. European Athletics (2011-05-06). Retrieved on 2011-05-30.
  6. ↑ "100m hurdles women results - Athletics - London 2012 Olympics". www.olympic.org. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  7. ↑ "European Athletics Championships - Zürich, Switzerland - Results - 100m Hurdles Women" (PDF). 13 August 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Doucoure hurdles to second European title". AFP. 7 March 2009. Archived from the original on September 11, 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
  9. ↑ "Loena Hendrickx prijkt op 5e stek na korte kür op WK, Nina Pinzarrone is 14e" [Loena Hendrickx takes 5th place after short program at World Championships, Nina Pinzarrone is 14th]. Sporza (in Dutch). March 22, 2023.
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