Naomi Van den Broeck

Naomi Van den Broeck (born 3 January 1996) is a Belgian sprinter. She had represented Belgium at multiple major championships, including 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games.

Naomi Van den Broeck

at 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships
Personal information
Nationality	Belgian
Born	(1996-01-03) 3 January 1996 (age 29)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Sprint
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	200m: 23.38 (Meilen, 2023) 300m: 36.94 (Bergen, 2024) 400m: 50.80 (Madrid, 2024) 400mH: 54.12 (Brussels, 2025) NR
Medal record Women's athletics Representing  Belgium European Championships 2024 Rome 4×400 m relay

Career

She represented Belgium at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in women's 4 × 400 metres relay.^[1][2] She competed at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March 2022.^[3] She was also selected for the Belgian 4 x 400 m relay team for the World Championships later that year in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.^[4]

She was selected for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow as part of the 4x400m relay team and was part of the quartet which qualified for the final and finished in fourth position.^[5] Later in 2024, at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas, she was on the team that qualified Belgium for the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France.^[6] And later that same year, she was on the Belgian 4 x 400 metres women's relay team that won a bronze medal at the European Athletics Championships.^[7] At the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, she ran in the heats and final of both the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with the Belgium teams finishing 4th resp. 7th in the finals.^[8][9] She also participated in the women's 400 metres hurdles reaching the semi-finals.^[10]

In 2025, she signed-up to race as a challenger in the Grand Slam Track event in Miami, as a part of the women's long hurdles category.^[11] She won the 400 metres hurdles for Belgium at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor on 28 June.^[12] At the Brussels Memorial Van Damme meeting of the 2025 Diamond League she set a Belgian national record in the women's 400 metres hurdles with a time of 54.12 seconds.^[13]

Statistics

Circuit performances

Grand Slam Track results[14]
Slam	Race group	Event	Pl.	Time	Prize money
2025 Miami Slam	Long hurdles	400 m hurdles	7th	56.63	US$12,500
		400 m	6th	52.26

International competitions

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  Belgium
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	7th	4 × 400 m relay	3:23.96
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	6th	4 × 400 m relay	3:33.61
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	2nd (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:25.44
			16th (h)	400 m	52.80
	World Championships	Eugene, Oregon, USA	4th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:28.02
			40th	400 m	53.16
2023	World Championships	Budapest, Hungary	4th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:23.63
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, Scotland	4th	4 × 400 m relay	3:28.05
	World Relays	Nassau, The Bahamas	1st (r)	4 × 400 m relay	3:26.79
	European Championships	Rome, Italy	11th (sf)	400 m	51.65
				4 × 400 m relay	3:22.95
			4th	4 × 400 m relay mixed	3:11.03
	Olympic Games	Paris, France	18th (sf)	400 m hurdles	54.94
			7th	4 × 400 m relay	3:22.40
			4th	4 × 400 m relay mixed	3:09.36

Personal life

Van den Broeck was born in Belgium to a Senegalese mother and Belgian father. As a youth, she grew up in Belgium, South Africa, Jamaica, Ireland and Norway.^[15]