Ruben Verheyden

Belgian middle-distance runner

Outdoor^[1]
800 m: 1:45.69 (Brussels 2024)
1500 m: 3:33.40 (Rome 2024)
5000 m: 14:32.64 (Herve 2021)
Indoor
800 m: 1:49.18 (Ghent 2022)
1500 m: 3:46.55 (Toruń 2024)

Medal record

Men’s athletics

Representing Belgium
European U23 Championships
	2021 Tallinn	1500 m

Ruben Verheyden (born 22 December 2000) is a Belgian middle-distance runner, who specializes in the 1500 metres. He won the 1500m at the 2022 Belgian Athletics Championships, and the same event at the 2021 and 2022 Belgian Indoor Athletics Championships.^[2] He also won the 1500 m at the 2021 European Athletics U23 Championships.^[3]

In 2024, Verheyden fell just short of the podium in fourth place at the 2024 European Athletics Championships and with a personal best time of 3:33.40 qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.^[4] At those Olympics, Verheyden, 12th in his heat and 10th in the repechages, failed to qualify for the semi-finals.^[5]

References

^ Ruben Verheyden at World Athletics
^ Merel Maes niet te stuiten: “Overweldigend”, Het Nieuwsblad, 21 February 2021
^ "Final Results" (PDF). Retrieved 2021-07-14.
^ "European Athletics Championships: Belgium finish tournament with six medals". 2024-06-12. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
^ "JO 2024 - Jochem Vermeulen et Ruben Verheyden éliminés en repêchages sur 1.500 m" (in French). 2024-08-03. Retrieved 2024-08-16.