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| Nationality | Belgian | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 October 2000 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Long distance running | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Juliette Thomas (born 30 October 2000) is a Belgian is long-distance runner. She has won senior national titles over the marathon, and the half marathon distances and she was a silver medalist at the 2025 European Running Championships in the half marathon. [1]
She is from Gaume and is a French-speaker. She has competed for Dampicourt AC in the Wallonia region of Belgium. [2] [3]
She was a bronze medalist in the team event alongside Lisa Rooms and Chloé Herbiet at the 2023 European Cross Country Championships in Brussels, the first time the Belgian women's team had won a medal at the event. [4]
In January 2024, she ran the Seville half marathon in 1:10.16 to move to second on the Belgian all-time list for the distance. It was also the seventh fastest time in Belgian history in the event, with Marleen Renders holding the six fastest recorded times. [2] She won the Belgian Half Marathon Championships in May 2024 running 1:09:48 to be the highest Belgian finisher in Gentbrugge. [5] In June, she competed in the half marathon at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, running a time of 1:11:35. [6] She was named Belgian champion after placing second at the Eindhoven Marathon in October 2024 in 2:27:23. [7]
She was a silver medalist behind Chloe Herbiet at the 2025 European Running Championships in the half marathon in Leuven, Belgium, in April 2025. [8] In May 2025, in Vienna, Austria, she became the Belgian record holder in the 5km road race, running 15:21 to beat the previous record held by Jana Van Lent and set just five months prior. [9]
