Jonathan Sacoor

Jonathan Sacoor
Jonathan Sacoor (l.) In Berlin 2018
nation	Belgium
birthday	1st September 1999 (age 21)
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	45.03 s
society	Olympic Essenbeek Hall
Trainer	Jean-Marie Bras, Jacques Borlée
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Indoor world championships 0 × 0 × 1 × European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
World championships bronze Doha 2019 4 × 400 m  Indoor world championships bronze Birmingham 2018 4 × 400 m  European championships gold Berlin 2018 4 × 400 m  U20 world championships gold Tampere 2018 400 m  U20 European Championships bronze Grosseto 2017 400 m
last change: May 31, 2020

Jonathan Sacoor (born September 1, 1999 ) is a Belgian sprinter who specializes in the 400-meter run .

Athletic career

Jonathan Sacoor gained his first international experience in 2015 when he finished sixth in 49.86 s at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Tbilisi . In the following year he reached fourth place in the European Youth Championships held there for the first time in 47.71 s and in 2017 he won the bronze medal in 46.23 s at the U20 European Championships in Grosseto . In 2018 he became Belgian indoor champion and therefore received a starting place in the Belgian 4 x 400 meter relay for the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , where he won the bronze medal in 3: 02.51 minutes behind the teams from Poland and the United States . During the outdoor season, Sacoor won the U20 World Championships in Tampere in 45.03 s and also set a new U20 national record there. In addition, he finished fifth with the relay in 3: 07.05 min. In August he started the relay at the European Championships in Berlin and won there in 2: 59.47 minutes. At the IAAF World Relays 2019 in Yokohama , he achieved bronze in the men's relay in 3: 02.70 minutes, behind the teams from Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica, while he was eighth in the mixed relay in 3: 25.74 minutes. Then he started at the U23 European Championships in Gävle only with the relay, but could not finish the race in the final. However, he qualified over 400 meters for the World Championships in Doha and made it to the semifinals , in which he equalized his best performance of 45.03 s and was eliminated. With the relay he reached the final and won the bronze medal in 2: 58.78 minutes behind the teams from the United States and Jamaica.

In 2019, Sacoor became Belgian champion in the 400-meter run outdoors and in 2018 indoors.

Personal best

• 400 meters: 45.03 s on July 13, 2018 in Tampere
  • 400 meters (hall): 46.95 s, February 17, 2018 in Gent

Web links

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

• Jonathan Sacoor in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steven Mills: Sacoor taking patient approach in following footsteps of his idols ( English ) IAAF. July 25, 2018. Accessed May 31, 2020.