Eliott Crestan (born 22 February 1999) is a Belgian middle-distance runner specialising in the 800 metres. In this discipline, he won bronze medals at the 2018 World U20 Championships and the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships. In 2024, he broke Ivo Van Damme's 800 metres national record that had stood for 48 years with a time of 1:42.43. He participated in the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, reaching the semi-final stage in both. At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in the men's 800 meters semifinals, Crestan ran the fastest non-final qualifying time in Olympic history of 1:43.72. In March 2025, he won a silver medal in the men's 800 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands having led the entire race from the front before being pipped at the line by Dutch athlete Samuel Chapple. Two weeks later, he followed that up with a silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China. In early February 2026, at the Czech Indoor Gala leg of the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Gold Tour Crestan set a new Belgian indoor record for the 800 metres moving himself up to fourth on the world short track all-time list with his time of 1:43.83. Thanks to further wins on that tour in Liévin and Toruń, Crestan was the overall 800 metres winner of the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Gold Tour. In March 2026, he was selected for the 2026 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń in Poland where, on 22 March, he won a silver medal in the men's 800 metres.

International competitions

YearCompetitionVenuePositionEventNotes
Representing Belgium
2015European Youth Olympic FestivalTbilisi, Georgia2nd800 m1:54.02
2016European Youth ChampionshipsTbilisi, Georgia7th800 m1:52.68
2017European U20 ChampionshipsGrosseto, Italy11th (sf)800 m1:49.58
2018World U20 ChampionshipsTampere, Finland3rd800 m1:47.27
European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany12th (h)800 m1:47.35
2021European Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland11th (sf)800 m1:48.12
Olympic GamesTokyo, Japan13th (sf)800 m1:44.84
2022World Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia6th800 m1:46.78
World ChampionshipsEugene, United States24th (h)800 m1:46.61
European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany8th800 m1:45.68
2023European Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey3rd800 m1:47.65
2024World Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, Scotland3rd800 m1:45.32
European ChampionshipsRome, Italy22nd (h)800 m1:46.48
Olympic GamesParis, France9th (sf)800 m1:43.72
2025European Indoor ChampionshipsApeldoorn, The Netherlands2nd800 m1:44.92
World Indoor ChampionshipsNanjing, China2nd800 m1:44.81
World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan14th (sf)800 m1:44.56
2026World Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland2nd800 m1:44.38

Personal bests

Outdoor

Indoor

  • 400 metres – 47.58 (Louvain-la-Neuve 2023)
  • 600 metres - 1:14:92 ABP NBP (Louvain-La-Neuve 2025)
  • 800 metres – 1:43.83 (Ostrava 2026)
  • 1500 metres – 3:46.44 (Louvain-La-Neuve 2020)

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