Kevin Borlée
Kevin Borlée ( born February 22, 1988 in Woluwe -Saint -Lambert ) is a Belgian athlete who specializes in the 400 -meter run. He was European champion in 2010.
Career
Borlée won the 2006 Belgian championship title over 400 meters in the hall and in 2007 over the same distance in the open air and in the 200 -meter run in the hall. On 31 May 2008, he ran in the 4 x 400 meters relay together with his brother Jonathan, Cédric Van Branteghem and Kristof Beyens a time of 3:02,51 min order for the quartet undercutting the 27 -year-old national record by but over one second, missed the qualifying standards for the Olympic Games in Beijing by one hundredth of a second. A short time increased, the squadron was in the Kristof Beyens replaced by Nils Duerinck to 3:02,13 min and thus managed to qualify.
At the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Belgian season ranked in the list Kevin Borlée, Jonathan Borlée, Cédric Van Branteghem and Arnaud Ghislain the fifth and scored with their time of 2:59,37 min again a national record. Kévin Borlée started there in the 400 -meter run. In the semifinal round, he undercut with 44.88 s while Van Branteghems Belgian record by 14 hundredths of a second, however, could not qualify for the final result.
In 2009, he won a student at Florida State University, the NCAA title in the 4 x 400 - meter relay and finished fourth in the 400 -meter run. Participation in the World Championships in Berlin, he had to cancel due to a foot injury.
His first international medal winning Borlée at the Hall 2010 World Championships in Doha. The Belgian 4 x 400 - meter relay team finished in the lineup Cedric van Branteghem, Kevin Borlée, Antoine Gillet and Jonathan Borlée with national indoor record 3:06,94 min second place. At the European Championships 2010 in Barcelona Borlée won in a time of 45.08 s the European title in the 400 - meter race. He also secured with the Belgian 4 x 400 - meter relay bronze medal.
2011 won the European Indoor Championships in Borlée in Paris a bronze medal in the relay. At the 2011 World Championships in Daegu (South Korea) Borlée reached the final of the 400 m and won the bronze medal in third. 2012 Kevin Borlée did not join the European Championships in Helsinki in the individual competition, the Belgian season with Antoine Gillet, Jonathan Borlée, Jente Bouckaert and Kevin Borlée won the title in 3:01,09 minutes at the Olympic Games in London, he reached the finals and ran in fifth place.
Kevin Borlée has a competition weight of 67 kg at a height of 1.80 m. His twin brother Jonathan and his older sister Olivia are likewise successful sprinters. The three siblings are coached by her father Jacques Borlée.