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Helena Ponette
Helena Ponette (born 3 February 2000) is a Belgian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics as a 400 metres runner and as a member of the Belgian women's 4x400 metres and mixed 4x400 metres relay teams. She also participated at multiple World and European Athletics championships, indoor and outdoor, individually and as a member of the 4x400 metres relay teams. She was national champion in the women's 400 metres in 2023. CareerPonette 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, but did not start.[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 2023, she was a member of the Belgian 4 x 400 m relay team at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary that finished 5th in the final.[4][5] She also ran the 400 metres where she was eliminated in the heats but did run a personal best.[6][7] Her international debut with the seniors Belgium 4 x 400 m relay team came at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon where the team finished 6th.[8] Little more than a month later, she and the team finished 4th at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany .[9][10] 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.[11] 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.[12] At the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, she ran in the heats and final of both the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with the Belgium teams finishing 4th resp. 7th in the finals.[13][14] Having also qualified individually for the women's 400 metres via the World Athletics Rankings,[15] she finished 6th in her round 1 heat and was eliminated in the repechages [16][17] but did set a new personal best of 51.46seconds. [18][19] International competitions
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