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| Nationality | Belgian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 April 2001 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Long distance running | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 5000m: 14:37.47 (Brussels, 2025) NR 10,000m 31:14.22 (Duffel, 2025) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jana Van Lent (born 22 April 2001) is a Belgian long-distance runner. She won the Belgian national title over 10,000 metres in 2023. She finished fifth overall and won a bronze medal in the team race at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships. [1]
She won the 10,000 metres at the 2023 Belgian Athletics Championships in Huizingen. [2] [3]
She finished seventh in the U23 race at the 2023 European Cross Country Championships in Brussels in December 2023. in February 2024, she was the overall winner of the CrossCup series in Belgium. In April 2024, she improved her 10,000 metres personal best to 32:45.22 in Oslo. [4] [5] The following month, she moved to sixth on the all-time Belgian list by running 31:59.57 for the 10,000 metres in London. [6] She finished eleventh at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in the Women's 10,000 metres in a June 2024. [7]
In November 2024, she won the Belgian national cross country title. [8] She subsequently finished fifth overall and won a bronze medal in the team race at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey in December 2024 alongside Lisa Rooms and Victoria Warpy. [9] [10]
In April 2025, she was named by Belgium for the European Running Championships in April 2025, to run in the 10 km road race. [11] She set a new national record in May 2025 in the 5000 metres. That month, she also won the senior women’s race at the European 10,000m Cup in Pacé, France. [12] In July she twice bettered the national record in the 5000 metres, first at the Folksam Grand Prix in Karlstad, Sweden [13] and then in the 2025 London Athletics Meet leg of that year's Diamond League in a time of 14:42.93 that qualified her for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [14] That record stood for only just over a month as she broke it again at the Brussels Memorial Van Damme meeting of the 2025 Diamond League setting a new best time of 14:37.47. [15]
She was selected for the Belgian team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [16]
She is from Mariekerke near Bornem in the Antwerp province. [5] She studied nutrition and diet at the Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts (EHB) in Brussels, and is a member of Excelsior Sports Club in Laeken. [9] [17]
