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Borlée family
Belgian sporting family
The Borlée family is a sporting family consisting of Jacques Borlée and six of his seven children.[1]
The family
The patriarch of the Borlée family is Jacques Borlée (born 1957), bronze medalist at the 1983 European Indoor Championships in Budapest in the 200 m, while his first wife, Edith Demaertelaere (born 1964), was a good sprinter with a personal best of 23.89.
Six of his seven children are athletes (the first five born from the first marriage with Edith, the last two born from a second marriage).[2]
The eldest daughter Olivia (born 1986) won the silver medal at the Olympics, which was upgraded to gold in 2016 due to the Russian team's disqualification due to doping, and the bronze at the 2007 Osaka World Championships with the 4 × 100 m relay, and the other daughter, Alizia (born 1991), was also a decent sprinter.
The four sons are all 400 m specialists: the twins Jonathan and Kevin (born 1988), both Ol