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Nationality | Belgian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Ghent, Belgium | 11 April 1993|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Sprinting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Imke Vervaet (born 11 April 1993) is a Belgian athlete. [1] She competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics as a 200 metres runner and as a member of the Belgian women's 4x400 metres and mixed 4x400 metres relay teams. She also participated at multiple World and European Athletics championships, indoor and outdoor, individually and as a member of the 4x400 metres relay teams. She was national champion in the women's 200 metres in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024.
She ran in the heats of the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar qualifying with the Belgium team for the final and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. [2] [3] Later that week, she also ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event, finishing 5th in the final and again qualifying with the team for the 2020 Summer Olympics. [4] [5] In between, she also ran a personal best of 23.24s in the heats of the women's 200 metres event but missed out on the semi-finals. [6]
In 2020, she won the silver medal in the women's long jump event at the 2020 Belgian Indoor Athletics Championships held in Ghent, Belgium. [7]
In May 2021, at the World Athletics Relays in Chorzów, Poland, she was on the team that qualified Belgium for the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA. [8]
Having qualified for the women's 200 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games via the World Athletics Rankings, she finished 4th in her round 1 heat, setting a personal best of 23.05s, [9] and proceeded to the semi-finals where she finished 7th and was eliminated. [10] She also ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with the Belgium team finishing 7th in the final [11] as well as in the heats and final of the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay with the Belgium team finishing 5th in the final. [12]
In March 2022, she ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia finishing 6th in the final. [13] In July 2022 she ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon again finishing 6th in the final. [14] [15] She also participated in the women's 200 metres but was eliminated in the heats. [16] Barely a month later, she ran in the heats of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany finishing 2nd and qualifying the Belgian team for the final but was replaced in the final. [17]
In August 2023, she ran in the heats and final of the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary finishing 5th in the final. [18] And as in 2022, she ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary also finishing 5th in the final, one place better than in 2022. [19]
In March 2024, she ran in the heats of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, helping the team to qualify for the final. [20] In May 2024, at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas, she was on the teams that qualified Belgium for the 4 × 400 metres mixed relay and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France. [21] [22] 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. [23] Having qualified for the women's 200 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games via the World Athletics Rankings, [24] she finished 7th in her round 1 heat and was eliminated in the repechages. [25] [26] She also ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with the Belgium team finishing 7th in the final. [27]
In February 2025, she set an indoor Belgian national of 23.01s on the 200 metres, breaking her own record dating from February 2023. [28] In March, she won a silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands as a member of Belgium's 4×400 m mixed relay team. [29] [30]
Outdoor
Indoor