Nelly Aerts

Nelly Aerts (born 30 September 1962) is a Belgian former long-distance runner who competed in the marathon. She represented Belgium at the 1990 European Athletics Championships and won marathons in Rotterdam and Brussels. Her personal bests of 1:11:32 for the half marathon and 2:33:33 hours for the marathon are former national records.

She won the 1987 Rotterdam Marathon in a time of 2:41:24 hours, then won her first Belgian marathon title two months later. In September she broke the Belgian record with a winning run of 2:33:33 hours at the Brussels Marathon. She was invited to November's New York City Marathon and came tenth in a time of 2:38:18 hours.

Her second marathon season came in 1989. Aerts began the year with a Belgian record of 1:11:32 hours in the half marathon – a time that won her the women's race at the City-Pier-City Half Marathon. This record stood for five years, until it was beaten by Marleen Renders in 1994.

Aerts made three international appearances for Belgium: she was seventeenth in the marathon at the 1990 European Athletics Championships and competed at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 1989 and 1990.