Koen Naert

Koen Naert
Koen Naert at the European Championships 2018
nation	Belgium
birthday	3rd September 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Roeselare , Belgium
size	182 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	marathon
Best performance	2:07:39 h
society	Royal Excelsior Sports Club Brussels
Trainer	Raymond Van Paemel
status	active
Medal table
European championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
European championships gold Berlin 2018 2:09:51
last change: April 7, 2019

Koen Naert (born September 3, 1989 in Roeselare ) is a Belgian athlete who specializes in long-distance , cross and road runs . In 2018 he won the marathon at the European Championships .

Athletic career

Koen Naert has been taking part in adult runs since 2008. A year later he took part in the European Athletics Junior Championships 2009 in Kaunas , Lithuania , where he ran over 10,000 meters to seventh place. Two years later he competed again at the Junior European Championships in Ostrava and was sixth over the same distance with a time of 29: 18.73 min.

In 2012 he took part in the European championships in the adult area for the first time and finished 11th in the 10,000 meter final. Two years later he took part again in the European Championships, this time in Zurich , Switzerland , and came in 11th place again over 10,000 meters.

In 2015 he ran his first marathons. He took part in both the Hamburg Marathon and the Berlin Marathon and finished in 13th and 7th place respectively. A year later he ran at the half marathon in Birmingham to 3rd place and also made the jump to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he finished 22nd place.

In 2018, he celebrated his greatest sporting success to date by winning the marathon race at the European Championships in Berlin . He prevailed in 2:09:51 h, which meant a new personal best as well as a European championship record. On April 7, 2019, he ran a new best time in the Rotterdam Marathon in 2:07:39 h, undercutting his previous one at the European Championships in Berlin by a little more than two minutes.

With a height of 1.82 m, he has a competition weight of 65 kg. Naert is married to Elise Cappelle and has a bachelor's degree in nursing .

Major competitions

Starts for Belgium
2009	U-23 European Championships	Kaunas	7th	10,000 m	31: 00.73 min.
2011	U-23 European Championships	Ostrava	6th	10,000 m	29: 18.73 min.
2012	European championships	Helsinki	11.	10,000 m	29: 02.08 min.
2014	European championships	Zurich	11.	10,000 m	29: 04.87 min.
2016	Olympic games	Rio de Janeiro	22nd	marathon	2:14:53 h
2018	European championships	Berlin	1.	marathon	2:09:51 h CR

Personal best

• 800 m : 1: 57.02 min, May 8, 2013, Namur
• 1500 m : 3: 42.99 min, July 5, 2014, Oordegem
• 2000 m : 5: 21.70 min, June 20, 2009, Oudenaarde
• 3000 m : 7: 58.50 min, May 22, 2014, Oslo
• 5000 m : 13: 32.83 min, May 31, 2014, Oordegem
• 10000 m : 28: 32.29 min, April 29, 2012, Palo Alto
• Half marathon : 1:01:42 h, March 24, 2018, Valencia
• Marathon : 2:07:39 h, April 7, 2019, Rotterdam

Web links

• Koen Naert in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Koen Naert in the database of European Athletics (English)
• official website of Koen Naert (Dutch)