Rani Vincke

Rani Vincke

Personal information
Nationality	Belgian
Born	(2000-03-01) 1 March 2000 (age 24)
Sport
Country	Belgium
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	60 metres, 100 metres, 200 metres
Club	KAA Gent Athletic Club
Coached by	Patrick Himschoot

Rani Vincke (born 1 March 2000) is a Belgian sprinter who represented Belgium at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.^[1]

Career

Vincke tried different sports at a young age. She swam, danced, and did ten years artistic gymnastics in a local club, the Koninklijke Turnkring Germinal Gistel (Royal Gymnastics circle Germinal Gistel). As she routinely out sprinted the boys in school, her parents enrolled her in an athletics club, Hermes Oostende, and later athletics club Houtland AC in Torhout. When starting her academic studies in Ghent, she joined the sprinter's training group in Ghent under national sprint and hurdles coach Patrick Himschoot [nl].^[2][3] Vincke became a member of the Belgian women's 4 x 100 metres relay team in 2019.^[4]

2022

In August, Vincke was a member of the Belgian women's 4 x 100 metres relay team that qualified for the final of the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany with a seasons best time of 43.58 in the semi-final, before finishing sixth in the final.^[5]

2024

In May, Vincke was a member of the Belgian 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas that failed to qualify in the Olympic Qualifying round for the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[6]

She represented Belgium at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024 ^[7] as a member of the Belgian 4 × 100 m relay team that qualified for the final and finished 6th.^[8][9]

She represented Belgium at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France as a member of Belgium's women's 4 × 100 metres relay team that, having missed direct qualification at the World Relays Championships managed to qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games via the World Athletics Rankings.^[10] The team was however disqualified in round 1 of the women's 4 × 100 metres relay when Elise Mehuys passed the baton to Delphine Nkansa outside the takeover zone.^[11][12]

Personal life

Vincke has one brother and three sisters. She attended primary school Klimop in Gistel, then the Royal Atheneum KA Pegasus in Ostend, and finally the Royal Technical Atheneum KTA in Bruges where she finished off middle school with a diploma in sciences-sports. She holds a bachelor interior design from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium and is studying for a Master of Science degree in Urbanism and Spatial Planning at the Ugent in Ghent.^[3]

Personal bests

Outdoor

• 100 metres – 11.32* (+4.6 m/s Heusden-Zolder 2024)
• 200 metres – 23.41 (+0.0 m/s Ninove 2024)

Indoor

• 60 metres – 7.34 (Ghent 2023)
• 200 metres – 23.96 (Ghent 2023)

References

1. "Rani Vincke". Retrieved 18 October 2024.
2. "NU OP DE SPELEN. Weg naar Parijs verliep niet van leien dakje, maar Rani Vincke leek altijd voorbestemd om op Spelen te lopen: "Op school was ik sneller dan de jongens"" [NOW AT THE GAMES. Road to Paris did not go smoothly, but Rani Vincke always seemed destined to run at the Games: “At school I was faster than the boys”] (in Dutch). Het Nieuwsblad. 7 August 2024. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
3. "Rani Vincke loopt nieuw persoonlijk record 60 m indoor: "Nog enkele jaren het beste van mezelf geven"" [Rani Vincke runs new personal record 60 m indoor: “I'll give the best of myself for a few more years”] (in Dutch). De Krant van West-Vlaanderen. 5 February 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
4. "Rani Vincke is de Krak van Gistel: "Met estafetteploeg naar de Spelen? Het kan!"" (in Dutch). De Krant van West-Vlaanderen. 25 January 2024. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
5. "Day for Belgian sprinters: Falcons and Rockets to European Championship final 4x100m". newswep.com.
6. "Women 4x100m Results - World Athletics Relays Championships 2024". World Athletics. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
7. "Belgium with 59 athletes to the European Athletics Championships, Cynthia Bolingo does not start individually". Nieuwsblad.be. 30 May 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
8. "European Athletics Championships". World Athletics. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
9. "EK Rome – Sublieme Belgian Rockets slaan dubbeslag met virtuele kwalificatie voor Parijs en finaleplaats". www.atni.be (in Dutch). 11 June 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
10. "Road to Paris 24". World Athletics. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
11. "Geen finale voor Belgian Rockets na diskwalificatie, ook Tibo De Smet en Pieter Sisk niet naar halve finales 800 meter" (in Dutch). Sporza. 8 August 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2024.
12. "WOMEN'S 4 X 100M RELAY ROUND 1 RESULTS". www.olympics.com. Retrieved 24 August 2024.

External links

• Rani Vincke at World Athletics
• Rani Vincke at European Athletics
• Rani Vincke at Diamond League
• Rani Vincke at Team Belgium (in Dutch)