Nina Derwael

Nina Derwael is a Belgian former artistic gymnast, born on 26 March 2000 in Sint-Truiden. She won the uneven bars at the 2020 Olympics, the first Olympic medal of any colour for a Belgian female gymnast, and she is a two-time World champion on that apparatus, in 2018 and 2019, and a three-time European champion. She was 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. She represented Belgium at the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games and led the Belgian team to its first team final in 2020, where it finished eighth.