 Vleminckx in 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 31 May 1998 | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Sprint | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 60m: 6.63 (2024) 100m: 10.15 (2024) 200m: 20.23 (2024) | |||||||||||||||||
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Kobe Vleminckx (born 31 May 1998) is a Belgian sprinter. He is a multiple-time national champion over 100 metres and was a silver medalist at the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships over 200 metres. [1]
He won the silver medal in the 200 metres and was a member of the Belgian 4 x 100 metres sprint relay team which won the bronze medal in the final at the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships in Gävle, Sweden. [2] [3] That year, he won the Belgian Athletics Championships over 100 metres, and retained the title the following year, but had to finish his season early due to persistent knee and hamstring injuries. [4] [5]
He returned to reach the semi-finals of the 60 metres at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Poland. [6] [7] He won the Belgian national title again over 100 metres in June 2021. [8]
He was a member of the Belgian 4 x 100 metres sprint relay team which placed sixth in the final at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany. In the semi-final, alongside Robin Vanderbemden, Ward Merckx, and Simon Verherstraeten they set a Belgian national record of 38.73 seconds, 32 hundredths of a second faster than the previous Belgian record set in 2003. [9]
He competed for Belgium at the 2024 World Athletics Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas, where alongside Merckx, Antoine Snyders and Verherstraeten ran a time of 38:68, five hundredths faster than the previous national record they had achieved with a similar lineup at the 2022 European Championships. [10] He was a member of the Belgian 4 x 100 metres sprint relay team which placed fourth in the final at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, missing out on a medal in the final by just over one hundredths of a second. [11] [12] In July 2024, he ran new personal best times over 100 metres (10.15 seconds) and 200 metres (20.23 seconds) at the Résisprint International in La-Chaux-de-Fonds. [13] [14]
In February 2025, he ran an indoor personal best over 200 metres of 20.83 seconds to move to third on the Belgian all-time list. [15]
He was selected for the Belgian sprint relay team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [16]
He is from Oevel in Westerlo, in the Belgian province of Antwerp. [17]
