Nicola Philippaerts (born 1993) is a Belgian show jumping rider.

He competed at the Equestrian at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, finishing 23rd individually but winning the gold medal in the team event.

[1] In 2011, he finished fifth in the Longines International Grand Prix of Ireland at the 2011 Dublin Horse Show.

[3][4] Together with his father and brother, and Olympic Gold Medal winner Jos Lansink, he finished third at the 2012 Piazza di Siena FEI Nations Cup of Italy.

At the 2016 Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, he was disqualified from competition for excessive use of his spurs and whip.