Naomi Van den Broeck

She represented Belgium at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in women's 4 × 400 metres relay.^[1][2] She competed at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March 2022.^[3] She was also selected for the Belgian 4 × 400 m relay team for the World Championships later that year in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.^[4]

She was selected for the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow as part of the 4 × 400 m relay team and was part of the quartet which qualified for the final and finished in fourth position.^[5] Later in 2024, at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas, she was on the team that qualified Belgium for the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France.^[6] And later that same year, she was on the Belgian 4 × 400 metres women's relay team that won a bronze medal at the European Athletics Championships.^[7] At the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, she ran in the heats and final of both the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with the Belgium teams finishing 4th resp. 7th in the finals.^[8][9] She also participated in the women's 400 metres hurdles reaching the semi-finals.^[10]

In 2025, she signed-up to race as a challenger in the Grand Slam Track event in Miami, as a part of the women's long hurdles category.^[11] In May 2025, at the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou,China, she ran as a member of the Belgium women's 4 × 400 metres relay team in the heat and repêchage round, qualifying the team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships.^[12] She won the 400 metres hurdles for Belgium at the 2025 European Athletics Team Championships Second Division in Maribor on 28 June.^[13] She qualified for the individual 400 metres hurdles race at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan by posting a personal best of 54.37s and winning the 400 metres hurdles race at the Madrid leg of the 2025 World Athletics Continental Tour.^[14] At the Brussels Memorial Van Damme meeting of the 2025 Diamond League she set a Belgian national record in the women's 400 metres hurdles with a time of 54.12 seconds.^[15] At the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, she ran with the Belgium women's 4 × 400 metres relay team in the heats and final of the 2025 World Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, finishing just outside the medals in fourth position in the final.^[16] She posted a national record of 53.65 in the semi-finals of the 400 metres hurdles and qualified for the final.^[17] In doing so, she became the third Belgian woman ever, after Kim Gevaert and Cynthia Bolingo, to reach a final of a running event and finish in the top eight. She finished a respectable sixth.^[18]

Van den Broeck was born in Belgium to a Senegalese mother and Belgian father. As a youth, she grew up in Belgium, South Africa, Jamaica, Ireland and Norway.^[20]