Joris van Gool

Joris van Gool
Joris van Gool in Berlin 2018
nation	Netherlands
birthday	4th April 1998 (age 22)
place of birth	Tilburg , Netherlands
size	179 cm
Weight	75 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
society	AV Spiridon
status	active
Medal table
European Indoor Championships 0 × 0 × 1 × U23 European Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
European Indoor Championships bronze Glasgow 2019 60 m  U23 European Championships bronze Gävle 2019 100 m
last change: May 18, 2020

Joris van Gool (born April 4, 1998 in Tilburg ) is a Dutch athlete who specializes in sprinting .

Athletic career

Joris van Gool gained his first international experience in 2013 when he finished fourth in the 100-meter run in 10.85 s at the European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in Utrecht and with the Dutch 4-by-100-meter relay won the bronze medal in 42.67 s. In 2016 he took part in the U20 World Championships in Bydgoszcz over 100 meters , but failed there with 10.69 s in the first round. The following year he reached the semi-finals at the U20 European Championships in Grosseto , where he was eliminated with 11.03 s. In 2018 he qualified for the first time for the European Championships in Berlin , where he was eliminated with 10.52 seconds. The following year he won the bronze medal in the 60-meter run at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow in 6.62 seconds behind the Slovaks Ján Volko and Emre Zafer Barnes from Turkey. Then he also won the bronze medal over 100 meters behind the Swedes Henrik Larsson and Oliver Bromby from the United Kingdom at the U23 European Championships in Gävle in 10.27 s , while he did not reach the goal with the relay in the final. With the Dutch relay, he also took part in the World Championships in Doha in late summer , where they were disqualified in the final .

In 2019 and 2020 van Gool became Dutch indoor champion in the 60-meter run.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 10.16 s (+2.0 m / s), June 30, 2019 in La Chaux-de-Fonds
  • 60 meters (hall): 6.59 s, February 8, 2020 in Toruń ( Dutch record )
• 200 meters: 21.51 s (−1.7 m / s), June 19, 2016 in Amsterdam

Web links

Commons : Joris van Gool  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Joris van Gool in the database of World Athletics (English)