Belgium at the 2026 Winter Olympics

NOCBelgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee

Websitewww.teambelgium.be (in Dutch and French)

Competitors30 (14 men and 16 women) in 9 sports

Belgium at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Flag of Belgium
IOC code	BEL
NOC	Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee
Website	www.teambelgium.be (in Dutch and French)
in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy 6 February 2026 (2026-02-06) – 22 February 2026 (2026-02-22)
Competitors	30 (14 men and 16 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Hanne Desmet
Flag bearers (closing)	Ward Pétré & Tineke den Dulk
Medals Ranked 29th	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Belgium competed at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from 6 to 22 February 2026.

Short track speed skater Hanne Desmet was the country's flagbearer during the opening ceremony.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Short track speed skating mixed relay bronze medal winners Ward Pétré and Tineke den Dulk were the flagbearers during the closing ceremony.^[4]^[5]

The following is the list of number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	2	1	3
Biathlon	4	4	8
Bobsleigh	0	1	1
Figure skating	0	2	2
Short-track speed skating	4	2	6
Skeleton	0	1	1
Ski mountaineering	1	0	1
Snowboarding	0	2	2
Speed skating	3	3	6
Total	14	16	30

Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Hanne Desmet Stijn Desmet Tineke den Dulk Ward Pétré	Short-track speed skating	Mixed 2000 metre relay	10 February

Alpine skiing

Belgium qualified one female and one male alpine skier through the basic quota (D.1) and a second male alpine skier through the Olympic Quota Allocation List (D.3).^[6]

Men

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sam Maes	Men's giant slalom	DNF
Sam Maes	Men's slalom	DNF
Armand Marchant	Men's slalom	57.34	5	58.27	18	1:55.61	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kim Vanreusel	Women's slalom	51.46	41	55.71	33	1:47.17	34

Biathlon

Belgium qualified four female and four male biathletes through the 2024–25 Biathlon World Cup score.^[7]^[8]

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Florent Claude	Individual	58:04.2	3 (1-2-0-0)	46
	Pursuit	36:52.6	6 (2-1-2-1)	50
	Sprint	25:13.9	2 (1+1)	38
Thierry Langer	Individual	58:35.8	3 (0-1-2-0)	52
Thierry Langer	Sprint	27:11.3	3 (1+2)	85
Florent Claude Thierry Langer Marek Mackels Sam Parmantier	Relay	1:26:55.8	0+18	19

Women

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Eve Bouvard	Sprint	24:06.3	2 (1+1)	74
Eve Bouvard	Individual	50:13.9	5 (0-2-2-1)	83
Maya Cloetens	Individual	44:52.1	2 (1-1-0-0)	33
	Pursuit	34:00.6	5 (2+0+3+0)	37
	Sprint	22:17.8	0 (0+0)	26
Lotte Lie	Individual	44:12.8	1 (0-0-0-1)	19
	Pursuit	34:35.0	3 (2+0+0+1)	47
	Sprint	22:48.8	1 (0+1)	39
Eve Bouvard Maya Cloetens Marisa Emonts Lotte Lie	Relay	1:15:06.5	0+6	13

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Misses	Rank
Florent Claude Thierry Langer Lotte Lie Maya Cloetens	Relay	1:09:00.4	0+8	18

Bobsleigh

Belgium was allocated 1 quota place in the women's monobob on the basis of the Olympic Qualification System (QS) Milano Cortina 2026 for bobsleigh and skeleton.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kelly Van Petegem	Women's monobob	1:01.14	24	1:00.50	16	1:00.42	18	1:00.10	17	4:02.16	19

Figure skating

In the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships in Boston, the United States, Belgium secured one quota in the women's singles.^[10] At the ISU Skate to Milano Figure Skating Qualifier 2025 in Beijing, China, Belgium secured a second quota in the women's singles.^[11]^[12]

Athlete	Event	SP/SD		FP/FD		Total
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Loena Hendrickx	Women's singles	70.93	7 Q	128.72	15	199.65	14
Nina Pinzarrone	Women's singles	68.97	11 Q	131.33	14	200.30	13

Short-track speed skating

Belgium qualified six short-track speed skaters (four men and two women) after the conclusion of the 2025–26 ISU Short Track World Tour.^[13]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Stijn Desmet	Men's 500 m	PEN		Did not advance
	Men's 1000 m	1:25.581	3	Did not advance					21
	Men's 1500 m	N/a		2:18.802	4	Did not advance			21
Stijn Desmet Adriaan Dewagtere Ward Pétré Warre Van Damme	5000 m relay	N/a				6:52.978	3 FB	6:51.672	6

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hanne Desmet	Women's 500 m	43.182	1 Q	43.139	4	Did not advance			13
	Women's 1000 m	1:29.661	1 Q	1:27.533	1 Q	PEN		Did not advance	10
	Women's 1500 m	2:24.365	1 Q	3:10.532	6	Did not advance			17
Tineke den Dulk	Women's 1500 m	2:28.037	1 Q	2:26.300	7	Did not advance			19

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Tineke den Dulk Hanne Desmet Stijn Desmet Ward Pétré	2000 m relay	2.39.932	3 q	2.39.974	2 FA	2.39.353

Key: FA = Qualified to medal round; FB = Qualified to consolation round; PEN = Penalty; Q = Qualified to next round based on position in heat; q = Qualified to next round based on time in field

Skeleton

Belgium was allocated 1 quota place in the women's skeleton on the basis of the Olympic Qualification System (QS) Milano Cortina 2026 for bobsleigh and skeleton.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kim Meylemans	Women's	57.70	=6	57.62	8	57.49	3	57.86	9	3:50.67	6

Ski mountaineering

Belgium qualified one male ski mountaineer through the Olympic ranking lists.^[14]

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Maximilien Drion	Men's sprint	2:42.40	3 Q	2:47.23	5	Did not advance	9

Snowboarding

Belgium qualified two female Slopestyle & Big Air snowboarders through the basic quota.^[15]

Athlete	Event	Qualification					Final
Athlete	Event	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank	Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Best	Rank
Sky Remans	Big air	24.75	73.50	24.50	98.25	27	Did not advance
Evy Poppe	Slopestyle	35.33	36.96	N/a	36.96	29
Sky Remans	Slopestyle	28.13	25.48	N/a	28.13	30

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Mathias Vosté	Men's 1000 m	1:09.199	17
Mathias Vosté	Men's 1500 m	1:47.19	24
Bart Swings	Men's 5000 m	6:19.27	15
Bart Swings	Men's 10,000 m	13:05.60	10
Fran Vanhoutte	Women's 500 m	38.63	23
Fran Vanhoutte	Women's 1000 m	1:16.93	23
Isabelle van Elst	Women's 1000 m	1:16.68	20
Isabelle van Elst	Women's 1500 m	1:57.82	20
Sandrine Tas	Women's 3000 m	4:01.26	7
Sandrine Tas	Women's 5000 m	6:46.47 NR	4

v t e Nations at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Africa	Benin Eritrea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Madagascar Morocco Nigeria South Africa
Americas	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Ecuador Haiti Jamaica Mexico Puerto Rico Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela
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Oceania	Australia New Zealand
Other	Individual Neutral Athletes