Chloé Henry

Chloé Henry
Personal information
Full name	Chloé Henry
Nationality	Belgium
Born	5 March 1987 (age 37); Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S.
Education	Blaise Pascal University
Height	1,70 m
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Country	Belgium
Sport	track and field, artistic gymnastics
Event	pole vault
Club	RESC
Coached by	Herbert Czingon
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Belgium
Summer Universiade

Chloé Henry (born 5 March 1987) is a Belgian gymnast and pole vaulter. She is multiple times Belgian Champion and National Record holder in pole vault. She is also known for her participation in Ninja Warrior France season 2. She made it to the semi-final where she became the last woman standing, just missing out on the finals.

Career

Artistic gymnastics

Chloé Henry was born 5 March 1987 in Corpus Christi, Texas, and lived in the United States until she was eight years old, where she started artistic gymnastics. She moved to Belgium where she started her international artistic gymnastics career. She participated in a number of European Championships and one World Championship. She was also selected to compete at the 2007 World Championship, but dislocated her elbow prior to the championship, which took her out of the running for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. In 2006, she was the Belgian Champion. In 2008 she refocused her objectives to pole vault.

Five titles in three years

After five months in pole vault she received her first medal at the National Championship, when she jumped over 3m35 to take home the bronze. In 2012, she became for the first time Belgian indoor Champion, a title maintained in 2013, 2014, and 2015. In 2012, 2014, and 2015 she also became the Outdoor Belgian Champion.

National records

Henry holds the indoor and outdoor National Record. She bettered a 10-year-old national record with a jump over 4m22 in December 2011 in Sittard, Netherlands, Belgian indoor record. In 2012, 2013, and 2014 she increased the record to 4m29 at the KBC Nacht, 4m33, 4m41, and 4m42 respectively national record.^[1]^[2] During an official competition in Brussels, Belgium she also jumped a Belgian record at 4m26, which was later not recognised by the Flemish Federation.

Making History

Henry was the first Belgian female pole vaulter to ever qualify for a European Championships when she jumped the qualifying standard, 4m40, on 21/04/2016 in Chula Vista, CA, USA for the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam.

Club

2016- RESC, Royal Excelsior Sports Club Brussels
2014-2016 USBW, Union Sportive Braine-Waterloo
2008-2014 KVAC, Koninklijke Vilvoorde Atletiek Club

Belgium Champion

Outdoor

Discipline	Year
Pole vault	2012, 2014, 2015

Indoor

Discipline	Year
Pole vault	2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Personal records

Season	Result	Date	Location
Pole vault outdoor	4,42 m (nat. rec.)	22 August 2015	Waremme, Bel
Pole vault indoor	4,33 m	28 February 2015	Zweibrücken, Ger

National records

Result	Date	Location
4,42 m (nat. rec.)	22 August 2015	Waremme, Bel
4,33 m (nat. indoor rec.)	28 February 2015	Zweibücken, Ger
4,31m (nat. indoor rec.)	10 January 2015	Aubière, Fra
4,41 m (nat. rec.)	15 August 2014	Jemeppe, Bel
4,33 m (nat. rec.)	29 June 2013	Albi, Fra
4,29 m (nat. rec.)	7 July 2012	Heusden-Zolder, Bel
4,26 m (unofficial nat. rec.)	27 June 2012	Brussels, Bel
4,22 m (nat. rec.)	29 December 2011	Sittard, Ned