The Most Famous
GYMNASTS from Belgium
This page contains a list of the greatest Belgian Gymnasts. The pantheon dataset contains 183 Gymnasts, 1 of which were born in Belgium. This makes Belgium the birth place of the 34th most number of Gymnasts behind Kazakhstan and Israel.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belgian Gymnasts of all time. This list of famous Belgian Gymnasts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nina Derwael (2000 - )
With an HPI of 27.48, Nina Derwael is the most famous Belgian Gymnast. Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Nina Derwael (Dutch pronunciation: [dɛrʋaːl] or [dərʋaːl]; born 26 March 2000) is a Belgian artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (2018, 2019), and a two-time European champion (2017, 2018) on the uneven bars. She is the 2019 European Games champion on the balance beam, as well as a two-time Belgian national all-around champion (2015, 2018). She represented Belgium at the 2016 Summer Olympics and at the 2020 Olympics. At the 2020 Olympics, she led the Belgian gymnastics team to their first-ever team final where they finished eighth. She qualified for the all-around final where she finished sixth, and she won the gold medal in the uneven bars final, the first Olympic medal of any color for a Belgian female gymnast. She is the first Belgian gymnast to medal at the World Championships, the first to become a World champion, and the first to become a European champion.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as gymnasts born between 2000 and 2000. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living gymnasts include Nina Derwael. As of April 2022, 1 new gymnasts have been added to Pantheon including Nina Derwael.
