Alex Hagelsteens (born 15 July 1956) is a retired Belgian athlete who specialised to

long-distance running Long-distance running, or endurance running, is a form of continuous running over distances of at least . Physiologically, it is largely aerobic in nature and requires stamina as well as mental strength. Within endurance running comes two d ...

and

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. He competed at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

in the 5000 and 10000 m events but failed to reach the finals. Hagelsteens was most successful at the

Egmond Half Marathon The Egmond Half Marathon ( nl, Egmond Halve Marathon) is an annual half marathon race over 21.1 kilometres that has been staged in Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands since 1973. The competition normally takes place in early January. Sections of the road ...

, winning it in 1982 and 1984 and finishing second in 1985 and 1986.

References

1956 births Living people Belgian male long-distance runners Olympic athletes for Belgium Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Hasselt 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-athletics-bio-stub