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Jonathan Sacoor
Belgian sprinter (born 1999) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jonathan Sacoor (born 1 September 1999) is a Belgian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres.[1]
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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 400 m 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.
In March 2025, he won a bronze medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands as a member of the Belgium men's 4 × 400 m relay team.[7] In September at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan he ran with the Belgian team in the heats of the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay qualifying the team for the final where he was replaced by Alexander Doom and the team won the bronze medal.[8] He also participated in the heats and final of the men's 4 × 400 metres relay, finishing fourth in the final.
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Personal life
His father is Mozambican, of Portuguese and Indian descent, his mother is Dutch.[9]
International competitions
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1Did not finish in the final
Personal bests
Outdoor
- 200 metres – 20.90 (+0.4 m/s, Bruxelles 2024)
- 400 metres – 44.98 (Rome, 2024)
Indoor
- 200 metres – 21.58 (Ghent 2018)
- 400 metres – 46.30 (Apeldoorn 2018)
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