Stijn Desmet

Stijn Desmet
Desmet in 2016
Personal information
NationalityBelgian
Born (1998-04-10) 10 April 1998
Duffel, Belgium
Sport
CountryBelgium
SportShort track speed skating
ClubIRTA
Medal record
Men's and mixed short-track speed skating
Representing  Belgium
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2026 Milano Cortina 2000 m mixed relay
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Seoul 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2025 Beijing 1500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Montreal 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Montreal 1500 m
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Gdańsk 1000 m
Silver medal – second place 2023 Gdańsk 1500 m
Silver medal – second place 2023 Gdańsk 2000 m mixed relay
Silver medal – second place 2024 Gdańsk 5000 m relay
Silver medal – second place 2025 Dresden 1500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Gdańsk 500 m
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Gdańsk 1000 m
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Gdańsk 2000 m mixed relay
Bronze medal – third place 2025 Dresden 5000 m relay
Representing Mixed-NOCs
Winter Youth Olympics
Gold medal – first place 2016 Lillehammer Mixed team relay

Stijn Desmet (born 10 April 1998) is a Belgian olympic medal winning short track speed skater.

Biography

Desmet was born in Duffel, lives in Mechelen, and is the younger brother of short track speed skater and Olympic bronze medalist Hanne Desmet. Together with her he won an Olympic bronze medal at the 2026 Winter Olymics as part of the Belgian mixed relay shorttrack team.

Desmet started short track speed skating at a club in Wilrijk at the age of 10. In 2012, he was scouted by the Belgian short track national team coach Pieter Gysel to participate in the Sport Vlaanderen supported project "Be Gold" to train talented youth professionally in Hasselt, with the Winter Olympics as the main goal.[1]

Desmet is the Belgian record holder in the 500 meters. At the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, he won a gold medal in the mixed relay event in an international team, alongside Desmet consisting of Quentin Fercoq (France), Ane Farstad (Norway) and Kim Ji-yoo (South Korea).

At the 2020 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships, Desmet finished 2nd in the closing super final, making him 5th in the final standings. At the 2021 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships, he was 12th in the final standings, and at the World Cup that year, Desmet finished in 9th place. [2]

At the Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Desmet was eliminated in the heats of the 1000 metres due to a penalty, ended 13th in the 1500 metres and was eliminated in the Quarterfinals of the 500 metres.

In April 2022, at the 2022 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Montreal, he won two bronze medals in one day, the 500 metres and the 1500 metres.[3][4]

In February of 2026, he was part of the Belgian team, that also featured his sister, which won a bronze medal in the mixed team relay at the winter olympics.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Stijn Desmet". Team Belgium. Archived from the original on 13 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Stijn Desmet". www.shorttrackonline.info. Archived from the original on 24 March 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  3. ^ "ISU World Short Track Championships 2022 – Montreal (CAN)". shorttrack.sportresult.com. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  4. ^ "ISU World Short Track Championships 2022 – Montreal (CAN)". shorttrack.sportresult.com. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Winter Olympics: Belgium take bronze in speed skating mixed relay". Belga News Agency. 10 February 2026. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
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