Jonathan Sacoor Explained

Jonathan Sacoor
Nationality:	Belgian
Birth Date:	1 September 1999
Birth Place:	Hal, Belgium
Country:	Belgium
Sport:	Athletics
Event:	400 metres
Club:	Olympic Essenbeek Halle
Coach:	Jean-Marie Bras Jacques Borlée

Jonathan Sacoor (born 1 September 1999) is a Belgian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres.

Career

He first came to prominence early 2018, winning a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 World Indoor Championships in a new national indoor record of 3:02.51. Later that year, he became the first ever Belgian under-20 athletics world champion by winning the gold medal in the 400m individual race at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships. He then followed up this performance with a gold in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 European Athletics Championships

He was a member of the University of Tennessee track and field team from 2019 to 2021.^[1]

In 2024, he was on the team that won the gold for Belgium in the men's 4 × 400 m relay at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland^[2] and at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas, he was on the teams that qualified Belgium for the 4 × 400 metres mixed relay and the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France.^[3] Later that same year, he was on the Belgian men's 4 x 400 metres relay team that won the gold medal at the European Athletics Championships^[4] and he ran a personal best in the final of the individual 400 metres, finishing 4th and posting for the first time in his career a sub 45 seconds.^[5] At the 2024 Summer Olympics, he ran the heats and finals of the mixed and men's 4 × 400 metres relay, finishing 4th in both.

His father is Mozambican, of Portuguese and Indian descent, his mother is Dutch.^[6]

Representing
2015	European Youth Olympic Festival	Tbilisi, Georgia	6th	400 m	49.86
2016	European Youth Championships	Tbilisi, Georgia	4th	400 m	47.71
2017	European U20 Championships	Grosseto, Italy	3rd	400 m	46.23
2018	World Indoor Championships	Birmingham, United Kingdom	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:02.51
2018	World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	bgcolor=gold	1st	400 m	45.03
2018	World U20 Championships	Tampere, Finland	5th	4 × 400 m relay	3:07.05
2018	European Championships	Berlin, Germany	bgcolor=gold	1st	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.47
2019	World Relays	Yokohama, Japan	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:02.70
	European U23 Championships	Gävle, Sweden	6th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:07.43¹
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	12th (sf)	400 m	45.03
	World Championships	Doha, Qatar	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	2.58.78
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	22nd (sf)	400 m	45.88
2021	Olympic Games	Tokyo, Japan	4th	4 × 400 m relay	2:57.88
2022	World Indoor Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	bgcolor=gold	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:06.52
	World Championships	Eugene, United States	4th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:01.96
	European Championships	Munich, Germany	4th (h)	4 × 400 m relay	3:01.80
2023	European Games	Chorzów, Poland	3rd	4 × 400 m mixed
2024	World Indoor Championships	Glasgow, Scotland	bgcolor=gold	1st	4 × 400 m relay	3:03.54
	World Relays	Nassau, Bahamas	3rd	4 × 400 m relay	3:01.16
	European Championships	Rome, Italy	bgcolor=gold	1st	4 × 400 m relay	2:59.84 EL
			4th	400 m	44.98
			4th	4 × 400 m mixed	3:11.03
	Olympic Games	Paris, France	21st (h)	400 m	45.08
			4th	4 × 400 m mixed relay	3:09.36
			4th	4 × 400 m relay	2:57.75

¹Did not finish in the final

Outdoor

Indoor