Noor Vidts
Belgian heptathlete (born 1996)
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Noor Vidts (born 30 May 1996)[2] is a Belgian athlete competing in the combined events. She won the gold medal in the pentathlon at the 2022 and 2024 World Indoor Championships. Vidts won the bronze medal in the heptathlon at the 2024 Paris Olympics, having placed fourth in the event at the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021. She earned silver and bronze for the pentathlon at the 2021 and 2023 European Indoor Championships respectively.
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Vidts at the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 May 1996[1] |
| Education | Catholic University of Leuven |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] |
| Sport | |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sport | Athletics |
Event(s) | Heptathlon, Pentathlon |
| Club | Vilvoorde Atletiekclub |
| Coached by | Fernando Oliva |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal bests |
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At the 2022 World Indoor Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia, Vidts set a Belgian pentathlon record, slicing 24 points off Nafissatou Thiam's previous best.[3] She won four national titles.
She won her first medal at a major outdoor championship, the bronze in the heptathlon, at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy.[4]
Personal life
Vidts is married to Belgian judoka Jorre Verstraeten.[5]
Achievements
International competitions
Personal bests
- Heptathlon – 6707 pts (Paris 2024)
- 100 m hurdles – 13.10 s (−0.1 m/s, Paris 2024)
- High jump – 1.84 m (La Nucia 2019)
- Shot put – 14.79 m (Rome 2024)
- 200 metres – 23.70 s (+1.5 m/s, Tokyo 2021)
- Long jump – 6.46 m (Rome 2024)
- Javelin throw – 45.00 m (Paris 2024)
- 800 metres – 2:06.38 min (Paris 2024)
- 100 metres – 12.14 s (+0.6 m/s, Ninove 2017)
- Indoors
- Pentathlon – 4929 pts (Belgrade 2022)
- 60 metres indoor – 7.82 s (Ghent 2018)
National titles
- Belgian Athletics Championships
- Heptathlon: 2019, 2020
- Belgian Indoor Athletics Championships
- Pentathlon: 2017, 2018
