.jpg) Helena Ponette in 2024. | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Belgian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 February 2000 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | Belgium | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | 400 metres | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Hermes Club Oostende | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Helena Ponette (born 3 February 2000) is a Belgian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres.
Ponette competed in the 4 x 400 m event at the 2021 European U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia.[1] At the same event, she was selected for the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.[2]
In 2022, Ponette finished second at the 2022 Belgian Athletics Championships behind Naomi Van Den Broeck in the 400 m with a time of 51.93 s. She was the fifth Belgian to run faster than 52 s. She thus secured a place in the Belgian 4 x 400 m relay team for the World Championships later that year in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.[3]
In 2024, at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas, she was on the team that qualified Belgium for the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France.[4] And later that same year, she was on the Belgian 4 x 400 metres women's relay team that won a bronze medal at the European Athletics Championships having anchored the team in the final.[5]
