| Noc: | BEL |
| Nocname: | Belgian Olympic Committee |
| Games: | Winter Olympics |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of Belgium |
| Website: | |
| Date: | 4–20 February 2022 |
| Location: | Beijing, China |
| Competitors: | 19 |
| Competitors Men: | 11 |
| Competitors Women: | 8 |
| Sports: | 8 |
| Flagbearer Open: | Loena Hendrickx Armand Marchant |
| Flagbearer Close: | Hanne Desmet |
| Rank: | 21 |
| Gold: | 1 |
| Silver: | 0 |
| Bronze: | 1 |
| Appearances: | auto |
Belgium competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, from 4 to 20 February 2022.[1] [2]
The Belgian team consisted of 19 athletes (11 men and 8 women) competing in eight sports.[3]
Loena Hendrickx and Armand Marchant were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony.[4] [5] Short track speed skater Hanne Desmet was the flagbearer during the closing ceremony.[6]
The following Belgium competitors won medals at the games. In the discipline sections below, the medalists' names are bolded. On 19 February, Bart Swings, won Belgium's first Winter Olympic Gold medal since the 1948 Winter Olympics.[7]
| width=60px | Medal | width=125px | Name | width=125px | Sport | width=150px | Event | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speed skating | Men's mass start | |||||||
| Short track speed skating | Women's 1000 m |
The following is a list of the number of competitors who participated at the Games per sport/discipline.
| width=150 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine skiing | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| Biathlon | 4 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| Bobsleigh | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Cross-country skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Figure skating | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Short track speed skating | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Skeleton | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Snowboarding | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Speed skating | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 11 | 8 | 19 |
See main article: article, Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Alpine skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Belgium qualified three male, and one female, alpine skiers.[8]
| Athlete | Event | Run 1 | Run 2 | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| Sam Maes | align=left rowspan=2 | Men's giant slalom | Did not advance | |||||
| Dries Van den Broecke | Did not advance | |||||||
| Sam Maes | align=left rowspan=3 | Men's slalom | Did not advance | |||||
| Armand Marchant | 56.13 | 24 | 51.72 | 22 | 1:47.85 | 22 | ||
| Dries Van den Broecke | 56.77 | 27 | ||||||
See main article: Biathlon at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Biathlon at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Belgium qualified four male and 1 female biathletes and a men's relay team.[9] [10]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Misses | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left rowspan=3 | Cesar Beauvais | Men's sprint | 30:06.8 | 4 (1+3) | 94 |
| Men's pursuit | Did not qualify | ||||
| Men's individual | 1:02:50.5 | 7 (1+1+1+4) | 91 | ||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Florent Claude | Men's sprint | 27:35.1 | 4 (1+3) | 84 |
| Men's pursuit | Did not qualify | ||||
| Men's individual | 57:11.2 | 5 (0+2+3+0) | 75 | ||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Tom Lahaye-Goffart | Men's sprint | 28:15.1 | 1 (1+0) | 91 |
| Men's pursuit | Did not qualify | ||||
| Men's individual | 1:02:26.2 | 7 (2+1+3+1) | 90 | ||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Thierry Langer | Men's sprint | 26:59.8 | 1 (1+0) | 67 |
| Men's pursuit | Did not qualify | ||||
| Men's individual | 57:18.3 | 5 (1+1+2+1) | 77 | ||
| Cesar Beauvais Florent Claude Tom Lahaye-Goffart Thierry Langer | Men's team relay | 20 | |||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Lotte Lie | Women's sprint | 23:41.1 | 3 (3+0) | 64 |
| Women's pursuit | Did not qualify | ||||
| Women's individual | 45:36.9 | 4 (1+2+0+1) | 45 | ||
See main article: Bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Belgium qualified one team for the women's bobsleigh competition.
* – Denotes the driver of the sledSee main article: article, Cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification. By meeting the basic qualification standards Belgium qualified one male cross-country skier.[11]
Due to high winds and adverse weather conditions, the men's 50 km freestyle competition on 19 February was shortened to 30 km. [12]
| Athlete | Event | Classical | Freestyle | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Deficit | Rank | ||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Thibaut De Marre | 15 km classical | 42:56.7 | +5:01.9 | 59 | |||
| 30 km skiathlon | 44:40.8 | 56 | 54 | |||||
| 50 km freestyle | 1:19:53.8 | +8:21.1 | 47 | |||||
See main article: article, Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Figure skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification. In the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, Belgium secured one quota in the ladies singles competition.[13]
See main article: article, Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Belgium has qualified two short track speed skaters (one of each gender).[14]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Stijn Desmet | Men's 500 m | 40.585 | 3 q | 40.718 | 4 | Did not advance | 14 | ||
| Men's 1000 m | PEN | Did not advance | ||||||||
| Men's 1500 m | 2:19.112 | 3 Q | 2:11.169 | 5 FB | 2:18.278 | 13 | ||||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Hanne Desmet | Women's 500 m | 43.702 | 3 q | 42.991 | 2 Q | 55.304 | 4 FA | 42.941 | 5 |
| Women's 1000 m | 1:27.836 | 2 Q | 1:29.388 | 2 Q | 1:28.166 | 2 QA | 1:28.928 | |||
| Women's 1500 m | 2:18.931 | 2 Q | 2:19.001 | 2 QA | 2:18.711 | 4 | ||||
Key: FA = Qualified to medal round; FB = Qualified to consolation round; PEN = Penalty; Q = Qualified to next round based on position in heat; q = Qualified to next round based on time in field
See main article: Skeleton at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Skeleton at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Belgium qualified a single female athlete for the skeleton event.[15]
See main article: Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification. Belgium qualified a single female athlete for the snowboarding event.[16]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Best | Rank | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Best | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Evy Poppe | Women's big air | 60.75 | 21.00 | 81.75 | 24 | Did not advance | |||||
| Women's slopestyle | 47.08 | 56.80 | 56.80 | 14 | Did not advance | |||||||
See main article: Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics and Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification.
| Athlete | Event | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | |||
| align=left rowspan=3 | Bart Swings | Men's 1500 m | 1:45.82 | 13 |
| Men's 5000 m | 6:16.90 | 7 | ||
| Men's 10,000 m | 13:02.43 | 10 | ||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Mathias Vosté | Men's 1000 m | 1:10.22 | 27 |
| Men's 1500 m | 1:49.93 | 29 | ||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Sandrine Tas | Women's 500 m | 39.37 | 28 |
| Women's 1500 m | 2:03.39 | 29 | ||
| Athlete | Event | Semifinal | Final | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Time | Rank | Points | Time | Rank | ||||
| Bart Swings | Men's | 44 | 7:56.74 | 2 Q | 63 | 7:47.11 | |||
| align=left | Sandrine Tas | Women's | 0 | 8:37.77 | 12 | Did not advance | 24 | ||