Patrizia Van der Weken
Luxembourgish sprinter
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Patrizia Van der Weken (born 12 November 1999) is a Luxembourgish sprinter who is a national record holder in the 100 metres and 200 metres events. In 2025, in the 60 metres event, she won bronze medals at both the World and European Championships.
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Van der Weken in 2024 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Luxembourgish |
| Born | 12 November 1999 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Track and field |
Events | 100 m, 200 m |
| Coached by | Arnaud Starck |
Career
Van der Weken participated in the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships, where she won her heat but was ultimately eliminated in the semifinals.[1] Later that year, Van der Weken competed in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, placing 33rd.
In 2024, she reached a World Indoor Championship final for the first time, placing seventh in the 60 metres in Glasgow - the best ever performance by a Luxembourgish athlete in the history of the championships at that point. She subsequently became the first Luxembourgish woman to reach a final at the European Athletics Championships, when she finished fourth in the 100 metres in that year's championships in Rome, missing out on a medal by 0.01 seconds and setting a new national record of 11 seconds flat in the semi-finals. A month later she won on her Diamond League debut, finishing first in the 100 metres at the Meeting de Paris.[2]
Van der Weken made her Olympic debut at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in the 100 metres event, where she progressed past her the heats and qualified for the semi-finals, becoming the first Luxembourgish women to do so. Her performance led to her being named Luxembourg's flagbearer for the closing ceremonies.[3] She was also voted Luxembourg's Sportswoman of the Year for 2024, with her coach Arnaud Starck also being named the country's Coach of the Year.[2]
Entering 2025, she showed strong form during the indoor athletics season, setting new national records in the 60 and 200 metres at the CMCM Luxembourg Indoor Meeting, her second competition of the year, and going on to take three wins in the World Athletics Indoor Tour in Ostrava, Karlsruhe and the final in Madrid and being crowned as Tour champion in the 60 metres.[2][4]
On 9 March 2025, she won the bronze medal in the 60 metres event at the 2025 European Indoor Championships, becoming the first Luxembourgish to win a medal at an international indoor competition, and the third to win a medal in an international athletics event[a][5]
On 22 March 2025, she won the bronze medal in the 60 metres event at the 2025 World Indoor Championships, becoming the first Luxembourgish to win a medal in that competition.[6] In September 2025, she competed in the 100 metres at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[7]
In February 2026, at the Copernicus Cup in Toruń, she ran a personal best of 7.01 seconds for the 60 metres.[8]
Competition record
Personal bests
Outdoor
- 100 metres – 11.00 NR (+2.0 m/s, Rome, 2024)
- 200 metres – 23.19 NR (+1.0 m/s, Chorzów, 2023)
Indoor
- 60 metres – 7.01 NR (Torún, 22 February 2026)
- 200 metres – 23.17 NR (Kirchberg, 19 January 2025)
Notes
- after Josy Barthel, Olympic champion in 1952, and David Fiegen, European silver medalist in 2006.