Noor Vidts
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Born | Vilvoorde, Belgium | 30 May 1996
Education | Catholic University of Leuven |
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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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Medal record |
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.
Achievements[edit]
International competitions[edit]
Personal bests[edit]
- Heptathlon – 6571 pts (Tokyo 2021)
- 100 m hurdles – 13.17 s (+0.3 m/s, Tokyo 2021)
- High jump – 1.84 m (La Nucia 2019)
- Shot put – 14.43 m (Eugene, OR 2022)
- 200 metres – 23.70 s (+1.5 m/s, Tokyo 2021)
- Long jump – 6.40 m (+0.5 m/s, Brussels 2022)
- Javelin throw – 41.82 m (Munich 2022)
- 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[edit]
- Belgian Athletics Championships
- Heptathlon: 2019, 2020
- Belgian Indoor Athletics Championships
- Pentathlon: 2017, 2018
References[edit]
- ^ "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.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Noor Vidts.
- 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)
Categories:
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Belgian heptathletes
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Belgium
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Belgium
- World Athletics Indoor Championships winners
- World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
- Sportspeople from Vilvoorde
- 21st-century Belgian women
- 21st-century Belgian people
- Belgian athletics biography stubs