Noor Vidts (born 30 May 1996)[1] 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 placed fourth in the heptathlon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She earned silver and bronze for the pentathlon at the 2021 and 2023 European Indoor Championships respectively.
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.[2] She won four national titles.
She won her first medal at an major outdoor championship, winning the bronze, at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy.[3]
Achievements
International competitions
Personal bests
- Heptathlon – 6596 pts (Rome 2024)
- 100 m hurdles – 13.16 s (+0.7 m/s, Rome 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 – 6.40 m (+0.5 m/s, Brussels 2022)
- Javelin throw – 42.12 m (Rome 2024)
- 800 metres – 2:08.50 min (Eugene, OR 2022)
- 100 metres – 12.14 s (+0.6 m/s, Ninove 2017)
- Indoors
- Pentathlon – 4929 pts (Belgrade 2022)
- 60 metres indoor – 7.82 s (Gent 2018)
National titles
- Belgian Athletics Championships
- Heptathlon: 2019, 2020
- Belgian Indoor Athletics Championships
- Pentathlon: 2017, 2018
References
- ^ "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. 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ^ "European Athletics Championships: Thiam wins heptathlon, bronze for Vidts". Belga (news agency). 2022-06-09. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
External links
- 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)
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