Dylan Borlée (born 20 September 1992) is a Belgian sprinter who competes in the 400 metres. He is a member of the Borlée family.
He holds a personal best of 45.09 seconds for the event. He was the silver medallist at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2015. He has also represented Belgium at 3 Summer Olympic Games and multiple World Championships and World Relays in Athletics as part of the Belgian men's 4 × 400 metres relay team.
Biography Born in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert,Dylan Borlée . Borlee. Retrieved on 7 March 2015. he is part of the Borlée family which is prominent in Belgian athletics and includes his older sister Olivia (b. 1986) and his older brothers, twins Kevin and Jonathan Borlée (b. 1988). All are coached by their father Jacques Borlée (b. 1957), who was himself a European medallist in the sport.Borlee Family . Borlee. Retrieved on 7 March 2015.
He made his international debut at the 2011 European Athletics Junior Championships, competing in the 4 × 400 metres relay team, which finished sixth.European Junior Championships (2011-07-24). The Sports. Retrieved on 7 March 2015. He began to establish himself as a senior athlete in the 2013 season. First, he secured a relay silver medal with Belgium at the 2013 European Athletics U23 Championships.2013 European U23 Championships Men's 4x400 relay final . Sport Result. Retrieved on 7 March 2015. After setting a 400 m personal best of 45.80 seconds for second place at the Belgian Championships in July,Dylan Borlee Progression. IAAF. Retrieved on 7 March 2015. he was selected for Belgium relay team at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics, alongside his brothers and Will Oyowe. The team made the final and finished in fifth overall with a time of 3:01.02 minutes.2013 World Championships in Athletics Men's 4x400m relay final. IAAF. Retrieved on 7 March 2015. The Jeux de la Francophonie the following month saw him make his first international appearance for Wallonia. He placed fifth in the individual 400 m and was a silver medallist in the relay alongside Robin Vanderbemden, Antoine Gillet and Oyowe.2013 Jeux de la Francophonie Results . Francophonie. Retrieved on 7 March 2015.
Borlée missed most of the 2014 season, bar a relay outing at the 2014 IAAF World Relays, where he was ninth.IAAF World Relays 2014 Men's 4x400 Relay Heats. IAAF. Retrieved on 7 March 2015. He returned in strong form for the 2015 indoor season, winning his first national title at the Belgian Indoor Championships.Dylan Borlee. European Athletics. Retrieved on 7 March 2015. A personal best of 46,73 seconds at a meeting in Metz earned him a place at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships.Dylan Borlée loopt EK-limiet. Het Nieuwsblad. Retrieved on 7 March 2015. In his first individual outing for Belgium, he ran a personal best of 46.72 seconds in the semi-final before improving to 46.25 seconds in the final – a mark which was enough to take the silver medal in Prague behind the clear home favourite Pavel Maslák.Dylan Borlée médaillé d'argent à Prague!. DHNet (7 March 2015). Retrieved on 7 March 2015. A day later he won the gold in the 4 × 400 metres relay, along with his brothers and Julien Watrin, in a new European indoor record of 3:02.87. After that followed a long string of medal winning performances at indoor and outdoor European and World championships and World Athletics relays competitions as part of the Belgian men's 4 × 400 metres relay team.
In 2024, at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas, he was on the team that qualified Belgium for the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France. And later that same year, he was on the Belgian 4 × 400 metres men's relay team that won the gold medal at the European Athletics Championships. Having qualified for the men's 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games via the World Athletics Rankings, he finished 7th in the heats and was eliminated in the repechages. As a member of the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympics, he just missed out on a medal. Despite the team posting a national record in the final, it finished 4th for the 3rd straight Olympics.
In August 2024, he broke 45 seconds for the first time in his career at the 2025 Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, Belgium setting a personal best of 44.94 seconds. Three weeks later, he won a bronze medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan with the Belgian team in the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay.
Borlée family
The progenitor of the Borlee family is Jacques, bronze medalist at the 1983 European Indoor Championships in Budapest on 200 m, while his first wife Edith Demaertelaere 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).
The eldest daughter Olivia won the gold medal at the Olympics and the world bronze at the 2007 Osaka World Championships with the 4 × 100 m relay and the other daughter Alizia was also a decent sprinter. The four sons are all 400 m specialists, the twins Jonathan and Kevin, both Olympic finalists in London 2012, Dylan and the youngest Rayane. In addition, Jacques' older brother Jean-Pierre was also a sprinter.
Personal bests Outdoor 200 metres – 21.00 (Kortrijk 2023) 300 metres – 32.51 (Liège 2017) 400 metres – 44.94 (Brussels 2025)
Indoor 60 metres – 6.94 (Ghent 2013) 200 metres – 21.74 (Ghent 2013) 300 metres – 33.33 (Ghent 2015) 400 metres – 46.25 (Prague 2015) All information from Diamond League.Dylan Borlee. IAAF Diamond League. Retrieved on 7 March 2015.
International competitions 2011European Junior ChampionshipsTallinn, Estonia6th relay3:10.892013European U23 ChampionshipsTampere, Finland1st relay3:04.90World ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia5th relay3:01.02Jeux de la FrancophonieNice, France5th400 m47.252nd4 × 400 m relay3:06.242014World RelaysNassau, Bahamas9th relay3:02.972015European Indoor ChampionshipsPrague, Czech Republic2nd400 m46.251st relay3:02.87World RelaysNassau, Bahamas3rd relay2:59.33World ChampionshipsBeijing, China5th relay3:00.242016European ChampionshipsAmsterdam, Netherlands 1st4 × 400 m relay3:01.10Olympic GamesRio de Janeiro, Brazil4th4 × 400 m relay2:58.522017European Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia2nd relay3:07.80World RelaysNassau, Bahamas2nd (B)4 × 400 m relay3:07.14World ChampionshipsLondon, United Kingdom4th relay3:00.042018World Indoor ChampionshipsBirmingham, United Kingdom 3rd relay3:02.51 (NR)European ChampionshipsBerlin, Germany17th (sf)400 m45.631st4 × 400 m relay2:59.472019European Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, United Kingdom 1st4 × 400 m relay3:06.27World RelaysYokohama, Japan3rd4 × 400 m3:02.70World ChampionshipsDoha, Qatar 3rd relay2.58.782021European Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland15th (h)400 m46.994th4 × 400 m relay3:06.96World RelaysChorzów, Poland8th4 × 400 m relay3:10.74Olympic GamesTokyo, Japan4th4 × 400 m relay2:57.882022World Indoor ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia3rd (h)4 × 400 m relay3:07.43World ChampionshipsEugene, United States14th (sf)400 m45.41 3rd4 × 400 m relay2:58.72European ChampionshipsMunich, Germany5th400 m45.39 2nd4 × 400 m relay2:59.492023European Indoor ChampionshipsIstanbul, Turkey1st4 × 400 m relay3:05.83European GamesChorzów, Poland3rd4 × 400 m mixed3:12.97World ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary19th (sf)400 m45.599th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:00.332024World Indoor ChampionshipsGlasgow, Scotland1st4 × 400 m relay3:02.54World RelaysNassau, Bahamas3rd4 × 400 m3:01.16European ChampionshipsRome, Italy13th (sf)400 m45.46 1st4 × 400 m2:59.84 ELOlympic GamesParis, France9th (rep)400 m45.514th4 × 400 m relay2:57.75 2025World ChampionshipsTokyo, Japan2nd (h)4 × 400 m relay2:57.983rd4 × 400 m mixed3:10.612026World Indoor ChampionshipsToruń, Poland4th (h)4 × 400 m relay3:05.25European ChampionshipsBirmingham, England17th (h)400 m46.174th4 × 400 m relay2:59.51
See also Borlée family Belgian men's 4 × 400 metres relay team
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