Eliott Crestan

Eliott Crestan
	Eliott Crestan in 2022
Personal information
Born	22 February 1999 (age 26)
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	800 metres
Club	Sambre-Meuse Athlétique Club
Coached by	André Mahy
Medal record
Men's Athletics
Representing Belgium
World Indoor Championships
European Indoor Championships
World U20 Championships
European Youth Olympic Festival

Eliott Crestan (born 22 February 1999) is a Belgian middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres.^[2] In this discipline, he won bronze medals at the 2018 World U20 Championships and the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships. In 2024, he broke Ivo Van Damme's 800 metres national record that had stood for 48 years with a time of 1:42.43.^[3] He participated in the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, reaching the semi-final stage in both.^[4]^[5] At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in the men's 800 meters semifinals, Crestan ran the fastest non-final qualifying time in Olympic history of 1:43.72. In March 2025, he won a silver medal in the men's 800 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands having led the entire race from the front before being pipped at the line by Dutch athlete Samuel Chapple.^[6] Two weeks later, he followed that up with a silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China.^[7]

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Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Belgium
2015	European Youth Olympic Festival	Tbilisi, Georgia	2nd	800 m	1:54.02
2016	European Youth Championships	Tbilisi, Georgia	7th	800 m	1:52.68
2017	European U20 Championships	Grosseto, Italy	11th (sf)	800 m	1:49.58
2018	World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	3rd	800 m	1:47.27
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	12th (h)	800 m	1:47.35
2021	European Indoor Championships	Toruń, Poland	11th (sf)	800 m	1:48.12
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	13th (sf)	800 m	1:44.84
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	6th	800 m	1:46.78
	World Championships	Eugene, United States	24th (h)	800 m	1:46.61
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	8th	800 m	1:45.68
2023	European Indoor Championships	Istanbul, Turkey	3rd	800 m	1:47.65
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, Scotland	3rd	800 m	1:45.32
	European Championships	Rome, Italy	22nd (h)	800 m	1:46.48
	Olympic Games	Paris, France	9th (sf)	800 m	1:43.72
2025	European Indoor Championships	Apeldoorn, The Netherlands	2nd	800 m	1:44.92
2025	World Indoor Championships	Nanjing, China	2nd	800 m	1:44.81

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