Jonathan Borlée

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Jonathan Borlée medal table
Jonathan Borlée at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham
Jonathan Borlée at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham

sprinter

BelgiumBelgium Belgium
European championships
bronze 2010 Barcelona 4 × 400 m
gold 2012 Helsinki 4 × 400 m
gold 2016 Amsterdam 4 × 400 m
gold 2018 Berlin 4 × 400 m
bronze 2018 Berlin 400 m
Indoor world championships
silver 2010 Doha 4 × 400 m
bronze 2018 Birmingham 4 × 400 m
European Indoor Championships
bronze 2011 Paris 4 × 400 m
gold 2015 Prague 4 × 400 m
gold 2019 Glasgow 4 × 400 m

Jonathan Borlée (born February 22, 1988 in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert ) is a Belgian athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run . His twin brother Kevin , older sister Olivia and younger brother Dylan are also successful sprinters . The four siblings are trained by their father Jacques Borlée .

Career

Jonathan Borlée was Belgian champion in the 400-meter run in 2006 and fourth at the Junior World Athletics Championships in Beijing . On May 31, 2008 he ran a time of 3: 02.51 minutes in the 4 x 400 meter relay together with his brother Kevin, Cédric Van Branteghem and Kristof Beyens . The quartet undercut the 27-year-old national record by over a second and missed the qualification standard for the Olympic Games in Beijing by a hundredth of a second. The season in which Kristof Beyens was replaced by Nils Duerinck increased for a short time to 3: 02.13 minutes and thus made it to qualification.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Belgian relay team took fifth place in the line-up of Kevin Borlée, Jonathan Borlée, Cédric Van Branteghem and Arnaud Ghislain and again achieved a national record with a time of 2: 59.37 minutes. Jonathan Borlée also started there in the 400-meter run. He reached the semi-finals but could not qualify for the final with a time of 45.11 s.

In 2009, as a student at Florida State University, he won the NCAA titles in the 4-by-400-meter relay and in the 400-meter run. With a time of 44.78 s over the 400 meters, he undercut his brother's Belgian record by a tenth of a second.

Borlée secured his first international medal at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha. The Belgian 4 x 400 meter relay took second place in the line-up of Cedric van Branteghem, Kevin Borlée, Antoine Gillet and Jonathan Borlée with a national indoor record of 3: 06.94 min. In July, at the Areva meeting in Paris , Borlée improved his own national record over 400 meters, one hundredth of a second to 44.77 s. With that he traveled to the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona as the leader of the European annual best list . There he underlined his role as a favorite in the semi-finals when he increased his best performance to 44.71 s. In the final, however, he surprisingly only finished seventh. The title went to his brother Kevin. Together with him, Arnaud Destatte and Cédric Van Branteghem, Jonathan Borlée still secured the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 meter relay. In 2011 Borlée won another bronze medal in the relay at the European Indoor Championships in Paris . After a fifth place at the 2011 World Championships , the Belgian relay team won the title at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki with Antoine Gillet, J. Borlée, Jente Bouckaert and K. Borlée . Jonathan Borlée also took fourth place over 200 meters in Helsinki. In the run-up to the Olympic Games in London, he ran a new Belgian record in 44.43 seconds. In the final, he reached sixth place.

At the 2013 World Championships in Moscow he was fourth with 44.54 s. At the European Championships in 2016 and 2018 , he won the title with the Belgian relay, in which his brothers Dylan and Kevin also ran.

Top performances

  • 200 m: 20.31 s, May 5, 2012, Lubbock
    • Hall: 21.35 s, January 27, 2007, Gent
  • 400 m: 44.43 s, 4th August 2012 (Belgian record), London

Awards

Jonathan Borlée and Eline Berings were awarded the “Golden Spike” as Belgium's best athletes in 2009.

Web links

Commons : Jonathan Borlée  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HDsports.at: Gold hat trick for Great Britain & heptathlon scandal . 4th August 2012
  2. ↑ brf.be of February 11, 2010: 'Golden Spike' for Jonathan Borlée and Eline Berings
personal data
SURNAME Borlée, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Woluwe-Saint-Lambert