15h41 – Kevin and Dylan Borlée achieve the 400m minimum for the Berlin Euro

Kevin and Dylan Borlée have pbaded the 400m minimum for the Berlin Euro (August 7th to 12th) during the 2nd day of the Belgian Athletics Championships on Sunday at King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels .Kevin Borlée won the national title with a time of 45.52, his best time of the season, ahead of Dylan Borlée, 2nd, who made the lap in 45.55, his personal best, while the minimum for the world championships. Europe is set at 45.89. Robin Vanderbemden took 3rd place with a time of 46.09. Fourth in 46.46, Alexander Doom pbaded him the minimum U23 (46.70). Jonathan Sacoor was the only one so far to have run the minimum in 46.07 at Oordegem at the end of May, but he wants to focus on the Euro U20 in Tampere and has considered running only the relay in Berlin. It is not certain that Doom will include the selection for Berlin. Jonathan Borlée also aims the Euro, he has not run 400m this season. Dylan Borlée was very happy with his performance. "It feels good, I've been three times very close to the minimum, sometimes the doubt can settle in. But I'm always told to persevere, I've always worked very well in training. I broke my personal best by two hundredths of a second, which is also a relief because I set this record in 2015. Since then, I've had physical glitches, we've done things that did not work, but I never panicked and it paid off, and I can say that it's not over Kevin was behind me at the start of the national final and he told me that if he did not I could do my race, but he was there and I am very happy for him because he was very far three weeks ago, he is strong and he will be very strong in Berlin ". (Belga)

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