Jan Van Den Broeck (born March 11, 1989 in Dendermonde) is a Belgian middle distance runner competing primarily in the 800 metres. [1] He finished fifth at the 2012 World Indoor Championships.
His personal bests in the event are 1:46.16 outdoors (Heusden-Zolder 2014) and 1:47.19 indoors (Ghent 2012).
| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Representing  Belgium | |||||
| 2008 | World Junior Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 22nd (sf) | 800 m | 1:53.11 |
| 2010 | European Championships | Barcelona, Spain | 25th (h) | 800 m | 1:51.79 |
| 2011 | European U23 Championships | Ostrava, Czech Republic | 7th | 800 m | 1:49.41 |
| 2012 | World Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 5th | 800 m | 1:50.83 |
| European Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 23rd (sf) | 800 m | 1:50.63 | |
| 2014 | European Championships | Zürich, Switzerland | 34th (h) | 800 m | 1:52.09 |
| 2015 | European Indoor Championships | Prague, Czech Republic | 13th (sf) | 800 m | 1:51.09 |
| 2017 | European Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 17th (h) | 800 m | 1:50.43 |
Chrispijn van den Broeck was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, print designer and designer of temporary decorations. He was a scion of a family of artists, which had its origins in Mechelen and later moved to Antwerp. He is known for his religious compositions and portraits as well as his extensive output of designs for prints. He was active in Antwerp which he left for some time because of the prosecution of persons adhering to his religious convictions.
Walter Stefaan Karel van den Broeck is a Belgian writer and playwright. He graduated as a teacher in Dutch and History (Lier), and he started his career as a teacher.
Hendrick van den Broeck or Arrigo Fiammingo was a Flemish painter, fresco painter, glass painter and sculptor of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. After training in Flanders, he travelled to Italy where he remained active in various cities for the remainder of his life. He was court painter to Cosimo I de Medici in Florence and worked as a fresco painter in Rome on the large decorative projects of pope Gregory XIII.
Jurgen Van den Broeck is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2017 for the Discovery Channel, Lotto–Soudal, Team Katusha and LottoNL–Jumbo squads. Van den Broeck specialised in the time trial discipline, having been Junior World Champion against the clock in 2001. The promise he first displayed in minor stage races like the Tour de Romandie and Eneco Tour was later validated and confirmed by top-10 finishes in all three Grand Tours: the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España.
Gerhard Rochus "Gerd" Dudek was a German jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist.
Mariken is a 2000 Dutch film directed by André van Duren. The screenplay is based on Peter van Gestel's children's book Mariken, an adaptation of the early sixteenth-century text Mariken van Nieumeghen.
Synarthonia is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the order Arthoniales. The genus has not been placed into a family. Synarthonia was circumscribed by Swiss lichenologist Johannes Müller Argoviensis in 1891.
Clemens van den Broeck is a Dutch artist, and goldsmith.
Elias van den Broeck was a Dutch still life painter mainly known for his flower pieces. He trained in the Dutch Republic and worked for some time in Antwerp in the Habsburg Netherlands where he had moved with his master Jan Davidsz. de Heem. He later returned to Amsterdam where he was successful as a flower painter. He also painted fruit pieces, forest floor pieces, mushroom pieces and banquet still lifes.
Van den Broeck or Vandenbroeck is a Dutch toponymic surname most common in the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and East Flanders. "Broeck" is an archaic spelling of "broek" meaning "swamp". Notable people with the surname include:
Juliaen Teniers or Juliaan Teniers was a Flemish painter of figures and flower pieces. He was a member of the extended Teniers family of painters.
Nicolle Van Den Broeck was a Belgian racing cyclist. She won the Belgian national road race title in 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974 and 1977, and became world champion in 1973.
Dirck Wesselse Ten Broeck, also known as Dirck Wessels, was a prominent early settler of Albany, New York. He is known as "the progenitor of the Albany family of Ten Broecks."
Willem van den Broecke, Willem van den Broeck or Guillelmus Paludanus was a Flemish sculptor, painter, draughtsman and architect. He was a scion of a family of artists, which had its origins in Mechelen and some members of which later moved to Antwerp. Willem was active in Antwerp and also worked and likely trained in Italy for a long period. He was known for his small scale works, many of which were executed in alabaster. He was, along with Cornelis Floris, the leading sculptor in Antwerp in the second half of the 16th century. He was also one of the designers of the Antwerp City Hall. He enjoyed the patronage of an elite international clientele of church institutions, Spanish nobility, princes of Protestant territories as well as patricians from Augsburg.
Events in the year 2017 in Belgium.
Hans Van den Broeck is a Belgian dancer, choreographer and video artist who is best known for his productions for les ballets C de la B and SOIT.
Groenten uit Balen is a 2011 Belgian drama film based on the eponymous play by Walter van den Broeck.
Naomi Van Den Broeck is a Belgian sprinter. She represented Belgium at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in women's 4 × 400 metres relay.
Piccolia is a small genus of crustose lichens in the class Lecanoromycetes. First circumscribed by Italian lichenologist Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo in 1864, it contains ten species. Due to a lack of molecular data, it has not been assigned to an order or family.
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