Belgian sprinter (born 1999)
Jonathan Sacoor
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Jonathan_Sacoor_Birmingham_2018.jpg/220px-Jonathan_Sacoor_Birmingham_2018.jpg) Jonathan Sacoor in 2018 |
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Nationality | Belgian |
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Born | (1999-09-01) 1 September 1999 (age 24) Hal, Belgium |
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Country | Belgium |
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Sport | Athletics |
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Event | 400 metres |
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Club | Olympic Essenbeek Halle |
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Coached by | Jean-Marie Bras Jacques Borlée |
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Jonathan Sacoor (born 1 September 1999) is a Belgian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres.[1]
He first came to prominence early 2018, winning a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in a new national indoor record of 3:02.51. Later that year, he became the first ever Belgian under-20 athletics world champion by winning the gold medal in the 400m individual race at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships. He then followed up this performance with a gold in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 European Athletics Championships
He was a member of the University of Tennessee track and field team from 2019 to 2021.[2]
In 2024, he was on the team that won the gold for Belgium in the men's 4 × 400 m relay at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland[3] and at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas, he was on the teams that qualified Belgium for the 4 × 400 metres mixed relay and the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France.[4] Later that same year, he was on the Belgian men's 4 x 400 metres relay team that won the gold medal at the European Athletics Championships[5] and he ran a personal best in the final of the individual 400 metres, finishing 4th and posting for the first time in his career a sub 45 seconds.[6] At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he ran the heats and finals of the mixed and men's 4 × 400 metres relay, finishing 4th in both.
His father is Mozambican, of Portuguese and Indian descent, his mother is Dutch.[7]
International competitions
[edit] Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
Representing Belgium |
2015 | European Youth Olympic Festival | Tbilisi, Georgia | 6th | 400 m | 49.86 |
2016 | European Youth Championships | Tbilisi, Georgia | 4th | 400 m | 47.71 |
2017 | European U20 Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 3rd | 400 m | 46.23 |
2018 | World Indoor Championships | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:02.51 |
2018 | World U20 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 1st | 400 m | 45.03 |
5th | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:07.05 |
2018 | European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:59.47 |
2019 | World Relays | Yokohama, Japan | 3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:02.70 |
European U23 Championships | Gävle, Sweden | 6th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:07.431 |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 12th (sf) | 400 m | 45.03 |
3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 2.58.78 |
2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 22nd (sf) | 400 m | 45.88 |
4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:57.88 |
2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:06.52 |
World Championships | Eugene, United States | 4th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.96 |
European Championships | Munich, Germany | 4th (h) | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.80 |
2023 | European Games | Chorzów, Poland | 3rd | 4 × 400 m mixed | 3:12.97 |
2024 | World Indoor Championships | Glasgow, Scotland | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:03.54 |
World Relays | Nassau, Bahamas | 3rd | 4 × 400 m relay | 3:01.16 |
European Championships | Rome, Italy | 1st | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:59.84 EL |
4th | 400 m | 44.98 |
4th | 4 × 400 m mixed | 3:11.03 |
Olympic Games | Paris, France | 4th | 4 × 400 m mixed relay | 3:09.36 NR |
4th | 4 × 400 m relay | 2:57.75 NR |
1Did not finish in the final
Outdoor
Indoor
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- 1991:
Germany (Lieder, Carlowitz, Just, Schönlebe) - 1993:
United States (Hall, Irvin, Rouser, Everett) - 1995:
United States (Tolbert, Davis, Long, Atwater) - 1997:
United States (Rouser, Everett, Maye, Minor) - 1999:
United States (Morris, Johnson, Minor, Campbell) - 2001:
Poland (Rysiukiewicz, Haczek, Bocian, Maćkowiak) - 2003:
United States (Davis, Young, Campbell, Washington) - 2004:
Jamaica (Haughton, Colquhoun, McDonald, Clarke) - 2006:
United States (Washington, Merritt, Campbell, Spearmon) - 2008:
United States (Davis, Torrance, Nixon, Willie) - 2010:
United States (Torrance, Nixon, Tate, Jackson) - 2012:
United States (Wright, Smith Jr., Mitchell, Roberts) - 2014:
United States (Clemons, Verburg, Butler III, Smith Jr., Parros, Babineaux) - 2016:
United States (Clemons, Smith Jr., Giesting, Norwood) - 2018:
Poland (Zalewski, Omelko, Krawczuk, Krzewina) - 2022:
Belgium (Watrin, Doom, Sacoor, K. Borlée) - 2024:
Belgium (Sacoor, D. Borlée, Iguacel, Doom, De Smet) |
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- 1934:
Germany (Hamann, Scheele, Voigt, Metzner) - 1938:
Germany (Blazejezak, Bues, Linnhoff, Harbig) - 1946:
France (Santona, Cros, Chef d'Hôtel, Lunis) - 1950:
Great Britain (Pike, Lewis, Scott, Pugh) - 1954:
France (Haarhoff, Degats, Martin-du-Gard, Goudeau) - 1958:
Great Britain (Sampson, MacIsaac, Wrighton, Salisbury) - 1962:
West Germany (Kindermann, Schmitt, Reske, Kinder) - 1966:
Poland (Werner, Borowski, Grędziński, Badeński) - 1969:
France (Bertould, Nicolau, Carette, Nallet) - 1971:
West Germany (Schlöske, Jordan, Jellinghaus, Köhler) - 1974:
Great Britain (Cohen, Hartley, Pascoe, Jenkins) - 1978:
West Germany (Weppler, Hofmeister, Herrmann, Schmid) - 1982:
West Germany (Skamrahl, Schmid, Giessing, Weber) - 1986:
Great Britain (Redmond, Akabusi, Whittle, Black) - 1990:
Great Britain (Sanders, Akabusi, Regis, Black) - 1994:
Great Britain (McKenzie, Black, Whittle, Ladejo) - 1998:
Great Britain (Hylton, Baulch, Thomas, Richardson) - 2002:
Great Britain (Deacon, Elias, Baulch, Caines) - 2006:
France (Djhone, M'Barke, Keïta, Raquil) - 2010:
Russia (Dyldin, Aksyonov, Krasnov, Trenikhin) - 2012:
Belgium (Gillet, J. Borlée, Bouckaert, K. Borlée) - 2014:
Great Britain (Rooney, Bingham, Williams, Hudson-Smith) - 2016:
Belgium (Watrin, J. Borlée, D. Borlée, K. Borlée) - 2018:
Belgium (D. Borlée, J. Borlée, J. Sacoor, K. Borlée) - 2022:
Great Britain (Hudson-Smith, Dobson, Davey, Haydock-Wilson) - 2024:
Belgium (Sacoor, Vanderbemden, D. Borlée, Doom) |