Kevin Borlée

Kevin Borlée
Kevin Borlée at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham
nation	Belgium
birthday	22nd February 1988 (age 32)
place of birth	Woluwe-Saint-Lambert ,  Belgium
Career
discipline	400 meter run
Best performance	44.56 s
Trainer	Jacques Borlée
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 2 × Indoor world championships 0 × 1 × 1 × European championships 4 × 1 × 2 × European Indoor Championships 2 × 1 × 1 ×
World championships bronze 2011 Daegu 400 m bronze Doha 2019 4 × 400 m European championships gold 2010 Barcelona 400 m bronze 2010 Barcelona 4 × 400 m gold 2012 Helsinki 4 × 400 m gold 2016 Amsterdam 4 × 400 m gold 2018 Berlin 4 × 400 m silver 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 silver 2017 Belgrade 4 × 400 m gold 2019 Glasgow 4 × 400 m

Kevin Borlée (born February 22, 1988 in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert ) is a Belgian athlete who specializes in the 400-meter run . He became European champion in 2010.

Career

Borlée won the Belgian championship title over 400 meters indoors in 2006 and in 2007 over the same distance outdoors and in the 200 meter run indoors. On May 31, 2008, he ran in the 4 x 400 meter relay together with his brother Jonathan , Cédric Van Branteghem and Kristof Beyens for a time of 3: 02.51 min. With that, the quartet beat the 27-year-old national record by over a second, but missed the qualifying norm for the Beijing Olympics 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 finished fifth 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. Kévin Borlée also started there in the 400-meter run. In the semi-final round he undercut Van Branteghem's Belgian record by 14 hundredths of a second with 44.88 seconds, but was unable to qualify for the final.

In 2009, as a student at Florida State University, he won the NCAA title in the 4-by-400-meter relay and was fourth in the 400-meter run. He had to cancel participation in the World Championships in Berlin due to a foot injury.

Borlée won 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. At the European Championships in Barcelona in 2010 , Borlée won the European title in the 400-meter run in a time of 45.08 s. He also secured a bronze medal with the Belgian 4 x 400 meter relay.

In 2011 Borlée won another bronze medal in the relay at the European Indoor Championships in Paris . At the World Championships 2011 in Daegu (South Korea) Borlée reached the final over 400 meters and won the bronze medal in third. In 2012 Kevin Borlée did not compete in the individual competition at the European Championships in Helsinki , the Belgian relay with Antoine Gillet, Jonathan Borlée, Jente Bouckaert and Kevin Borlée won the title in 3: 01.09 min. At the Olympic Games in London he reached the finals and ran in fifth place. At the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam , he won the relay with his siblings Jonathan and Dylan and Julien Watrin and finished fourth in the individual race. At the 2018 European Championships in Berlin , he defended the title with the relay and won the silver medal on the individual course.

Kevin Borlée has a competition weight of 67 kg with a height of 1.80 m. His twin brother Jonathan , older sister Olivia and younger brother Dylan are also successful sprinters . The four siblings are trained by their father Jacques Borlée .

Personal best

• 100 m : 10.57 s, 26 August 2017, Brussels
• 200 m: 20.72 s, 23 July 2011, Brussels
• 400 m: 44.56 s, June 16, 2012, Brussels
  • Hall: 46.41 s, 23 February 2018, Gent

Web links

Commons : Kevin Borlée  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kevin Borlée in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Kevin Borlée in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Borlée sibling website (French, Dutch, English)