Bart Swings (born 12 February 1991) is a Belgian long track speed skater and inline speed skater.[2] He is the 2022 Olympic champion on the speed skating mass start. Swings won Belgium's first gold medal in 74 years[3] and is the first Belgian athlete ever to have won two medals in the Winter Olympics.[4] In 2023 he won the Belgian National Sports Merit Award, the highest trophy for a sportsperson or team in Belgium.[5]
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, he won a silver medal in the 1st ever Mass start at the Winter Olympics. Four years later, he won the gold medal in this event. It was Belgium's second-ever gold medal in the Winter Olympics history and the first for an individual male athlete.
At the 2022 Berlin Marathon, he crossed the finish line in 56:45 minutes and set a new course record. At the same time, he secured his eighth victory at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON inline skating.
His brother Maarten Swings also competes in inline speed skating and speed skating, participating in the inline skating world championships and qualifying for the ISU Speed Skating World Cup.