Team Belgium won a total of ten medals during the Olympic Games in Paris over the past two weeks.
This year, 172 Belgians competed at the Olympics and received the official status of "Olympian" – the largest number since 1928. Additionally, 92 athletes went home with an "Olympic diploma" (a top-8 place).
"We get ten medals and 33 top-eight places," said Jean-Michel Saive, the president of the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee (BOIC). "That is the best result in a hundred years."
The BOIC paid special tribute to gold medallists Remco Evenepoel and Nafi Thiam. "Remco put Belgium on the sports map: in the Olympic village, foreign athletes and delegation members queued up to get an autograph from him."
For the next Olympics, in Los Angeles in 2028, the BOIC does not want to make a prediction yet. "But it is clear that with 10 medals, a new benchmark has been set."
These are Belgium's Olympic medallists
- Gabriella Willems (bronze) in judo
- Remco Evenepoel (gold) and Wout van Aert (bronze) in the cycling individual time trial
- Remco Evenepoel (gold) again, in the men's road race
- Lotte Kopecky (bronze) in the women's road race
- Nafi Thiam (gold) en Noor Vidts (bronze) in the heptathlon
- Fabio Van den Bossche (bronze) in the cycling omnium
- Sara Chaâri (bronze) in taekwondo
- Bashir Abdi (silver) in the marathon
