[4] In 2023 he won the Belgian National Sports Merit Award, the highest trophy for a sportsperson or team in Belgium.

It was Belgium's second-ever gold medal in the Winter Olympics history and the first for an individual male athlete.

At the 2019 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships, he took the lead in the men's mass start but crashed on the final lap, costing him the podium.

At the 2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships, he won bronze in the men's mass start, winning his first-ever medal in a World Single Distances Speed Skating Championship event.

At the same time, he secured his eighth victory at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON inline skating.