# Imke Vervaet

Imke Vervaet (born 11 April 1993) is a Belgian athlete. She competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics as a 200 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 200 metres in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024.

## Career
### 2019

She ran in the heats of the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar qualifying with the Belgium team for the final and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Later that week, she also ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay event, finishing 5th in the final and again qualifying with the team for the 2020 Summer Olympics. In between, she also ran a personal best of 23.24s in the heats of the women's 200 metres event but missed out on the semi-finals.

### 2020

In 2020, she won the silver medal in the women's long jump event at the 2020 Belgian Indoor Athletics Championships held in Ghent, Belgium.

### 2021

In May 2021, at the World Athletics Relays in Chorzów, Poland, she was on the team that qualified Belgium for the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA.
Having qualified for the women's 200 metres at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games via the World Athletics Rankings, she finished 4th in her round 1 heat, setting a personal best of 23.05s, and proceeded to the semi-finals where she finished 7th and was eliminated. She also ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with the Belgium team finishing 7th in the final as well as in the heats and final of the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay with the Belgium team finishing 5th in the final.

### 2022

In March 2022, she ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia finishing 6th in the final. In July 2022 she ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon again finishing 6th in the final. She also participated in the women's 200 metres but was eliminated in the heats. Barely a month later, she ran in the heats of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany finishing 2nd and qualifying the Belgian team for the final but was replaced in the final.

### 2023

In August 2023, she ran in the heats and final of the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary finishing 5th in the final. And as in 2022, she ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary also finishing 5th in the final, one place better than in 2022.

### 2024

In March 2024, she ran in the heats of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, helping the team to qualify for the final. In May 2024, at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas, she was on the teams that qualified Belgium for the 4 × 400 metres mixed relay and the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France. 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 qualified for the women's 200 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games via the World Athletics Rankings, she finished 7th in her round 1 heat and was eliminated in the repechages. She also ran in the heats and final of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay with the Belgium team finishing 7th in the final.

### 2025

In February 2025, she set an indoor Belgian national of 23.01s on the 200 metres, breaking her own record dating from February 2023. In March, she won a silver medal at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands as a member of Belgium's 4×400 m mixed relay team.

## Personal bests

Outdoor
* 200 metres – 23.03 (+1.0 m/s Brussels 2024)
* 400 metres – 51.88 (Brussels 2024)
Indoor
* 200 metres – 23.01 (Gent 2025)
* 400 metres – 51.94 (Apeldoorn 2025)