• Source: Lisa Rooms

      • Lisa Rooms (born 17 June 1996) is a Belgian long-distance runner. She is a multiple-time Belgian national champion and a Belgian record holder.


      Career


      A member of AV Lokeren, in 2019, she became Belgian champion for the first time, over 5000 metres in Brussels.
      In 2022 she became the Belgian champion over 5000 metres. That year, she came 15th over 5000m at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich in a time of 15:50.59. At the end of 2022, she changed her coach to Grete Koens after spending eight years with Tim Moriau.
      In 2023, she finished in tenth place over 5000m in the at the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships in Chorzów, in a time of 15:44.24. She became the Belgian champion over 5000 metres, 10,000 metres, and the 10 km road race in 2023. She ran a 10 km personal best on the road in Rotterdam in October 2023.
      Rooms finished sixth overall and was a bronze medalist in the team event at the 2023 European Cross Country Championships. It was the first time the Belgian women’s team had ever been on the podium at the event.
      In February 2024, she set a new Belgian national record in the 3000 metres indoors in Metz. She competed in the 5000 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024. And in December of 2024, she and the Belgium team repeated their result from the previous year on home soil in Brussels and finished third in the women's team event at the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Antalya, Turkey.


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