Helena Ponette

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Helena Ponette
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Helena Ponette in 2024.
Personal information
Nationality Belgian
Born (2000-02-03) 3 February 2000 (age 24)
Sport
CountryBelgium
Sport Athletics
Event 400 metres
ClubHermes Club Oostende
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2024 Rome 4×400 m relay

Helena Ponette (born 3 February 2000) is a Belgian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres.

Ponette competed in the 4 x 400 m event at the 2021 European U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. [1] At the same event, she was selected for the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. [2]

In 2022, Ponette finished second at the 2022 Belgian Athletics Championships behind Naomi Van Den Broeck in the 400 m with a time of 51.93 s. She was the fifth Belgian to run faster than 52 s. She thus secured a place in the Belgian 4 x 400 m relay team for the World Championships later that year in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A. [3]

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. [4] 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 having anchored the team in the final. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ Dekie, Gunther (7 July 2021). "Helena Ponette neemt met 4x400m estafetteteam deel aan EK U23: "Finale is realistische doelstelling"" (in Dutch). Het Laatste Nieuws.
  2. ↑ "België stuurt 12 atleten en 2 aflossingsteams naar het WK indoor in Servië" (in Dutch). Sporza. 9 March 2022.
  3. ↑ "België trekt met 29 atleten naar het WK in Eugene (VS)" (in Dutch). Sporza. 4 July 2022.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "Gold and bronze for Belgian men and women in 4x400m relay" (in French). Belga (news agency). 12 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
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