Ben Broeders

Ben Broeders
Ben Broeders (left) in Doha 2019
nation	Belgium
birthday	21st June 1995 (age 25)
place of birth	Leuven , Belgium
size	178 cm
Weight	75 kg
job	college student
Career
discipline	Pole vault
Best performance	5.80 m
Trainer	Steven Taeleman
status	active
Medal table
Summer Universiade 0 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Universiade bronze Naples 2019 5.51 m  U23 European Championships gold Bydgoszcz 2017 5.60 m
last change: April 19, 2020

Ben Broeders (born June 21, 1995 in Leuven ) is a Belgian pole vaulter .

Athletic career

Ben Broeders gained his first international experience at the 2014 Junior World Championships in Eugene , where he was eliminated from the qualification with a height of 5.00 m. The following year he finished ninth at the U23 European Championships in Tallinn with 5.20 m and in 2016 he qualified for the first time for the European Championships in Amsterdam , where he came in fourth with a skipped 5.50 m. In 2017 he won the U23 European Championships in Bydgoszcz with 5.60 seconds and in the following year he did not succeed in qualifying at the European Championships in Berlin . In 2019 he took part in the Summer Universiade in Naples and won the bronze medal there with 5.51 m behind Ernest Obiena from the Philippines and Torben Blech from Germany. He also qualified for the World Championships in Doha , where he finished twelfth with 5.55 m in the final .

In 2019 Broeders became Belgian champion in pole vault outdoors and from 2014 to 2016 and 2019 also indoors.

Personal best

• Pole vault (open air): 5.76 m, June 29, 2019 in Hof ( Belgian record )
  • Pole vault (hall): 5.80 m, February 19, 2020 in Liévin ( Belgian record )

Web links

Commons : Ben Broeders  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ben Broeders in the database of World Athletics (English)