Noor Vidts (born 30 May 1996)[2] is a Belgian athlete competing in the combined events. She won the gold medal in the pentathlon at the 2022 and 2024 World Indoor Championships. Vidts won the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 2024 Paris Olympics, having placed fourth in the event at the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021. She earned silver and bronze for the pentathlon at the 2021 and 2023 European Indoor Championships respectively.
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Born | Vilvoorde, Belgium | 30 May 1996
Education | Catholic University of Leuven |
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] |
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Country | Belgium |
Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Heptathlon, Pentathlon |
Club | Vilvoorde Atletiekclub |
Coached by | Fernando Oliva |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests |
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At the 2022 World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia, Vidts set a Belgian pentathlon record, slicing 24 points off Nafissatou Thiam's previous best.[3] She won four national titles.
She won her first medal at a major outdoor championship, the bronze in the heptathlon, at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy.[4]
Achievements
editInternational competitions
editPersonal bests
edit- Heptathlon – 6707 pts (Paris 2024)
- 100 m hurdles – 13.10 s (−0.1 m/s, Paris 2024)
- High jump – 1.84 m (La Nucia 2019)
- Shot put – 14.79 m (Rome 2024)
- 200 metres – 23.70 s (+1.5 m/s, Tokyo 2021)
- Long jump – 6.46 m (Rome 2024)
- Javelin throw – 45.00 m (Paris 2024)
- 800 metres – 2:06.38 min (Paris 2024)
- 100 metres – 12.14 s (+0.6 m/s, Ninove 2017)
- Indoors
- Pentathlon – 4929 pts (Belgrade 2022)
- 60 metres indoor – 7.82 s (Ghent 2018)
National titles
edit- Belgian Athletics Championships
- Heptathlon: 2019, 2020
- Belgian Indoor Athletics Championships
- Pentathlon: 2017, 2018
References
edit- ^ "VIDTS Noor | Paris 2024". olympics.com. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
- ^ "Noor VIDTS – Athlete Profile". World Athletics. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "Goud! Noor Vidts kroont zich op WK indoor tot wereldkampioene in vijfkamp". Het Laatste Nieuws. 18 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships: Thiam wins heptathlon, bronze for Vidts". Belga (news agency). 9 June 2022. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
External links
edit- Noor Vidts at World Athletics
- Noor Vidts at Diamond League
- Noor Vidts at Olympics.com
- Noor Vidts at Olympedia
- Noor Vidts at Team Belgium (in Dutch)