Daniel Segers
Belgian sprinter (born 2001)
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Daniel Segers (born 1 February 2001) is a Belgian sprinter. He was the Belgian indoor national champion in 2025 in the 400 metres. He previously won the Belgian Athletics Championships in the long jump.[1]
Long Jump 7.89m (2020) NU20R
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| Born | 1 February 2001 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Sprint | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | 400m: 44.63 (2025) Long Jump 7.89m (2020) NU20R | ||||||||||||||
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Biography
From Dendermonde, as a junior athlete he competed in the decathlon.[2] He represented Belgium at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Festival in Győr, Hungary winning gold in the long jump.[3] He won the senior Belgian Athletics Championships long jump title in Brussels in 2020, with a best jump of 7.89 metres.[4]
Having given up long jump due to a succession of injuries, he switched to train under Jacques Borlée from mid-October 2024. In February 2025, he won the Belgian national indoor 400 metres title.[5] He subsequently competed for Belgium at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.[6] He was the fifth fastest qualifier for the semi-finals with a new indoor personal best of 46.11 seconds.[7]
He was selected for the Belgian relay pool at the 2025 World Athletics Relays in China, where he was a silver medalist in the Men's 4 × 400 metres relay.[8] He also competed in the Mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the event.[9] He set a personal best of 44.63 seconds to win the 400 metres at the Golden Spike Ostrava on 24 June.[10] He ran 44.90 seconds to place fourth in the 2025 Diamond League at the 2025 Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, Belgium, on 22 August.[11] He placed sixth in the 400 metres at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August.[12]
He was selected for the Belgian team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, running 45.04 in his heat of the men's 400 metres without advancing to the semi-finals.[13][14] He also ran as part of the Belgian men's 4 x 400 metres relay team which placed fourth in the final on the final day of the championships.[15]
In May 2026, he ran at the 2026 World Athletics Relays in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay in Gaborone, Botswana.[16] On 16 June, he placed second over 400 metres to Atilla Molnar in 44.81 seconds at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava.[17] Competing at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, England in August, he was a finalist in the 400 metres, placing eighth overall.[18] He also competed in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the championships.[19]