Helena Ponette

Helena Ponette (born 3 February 2000) is a Belgian sprinter specialising in the 400 metres.

Ponette competed in the 4 x 400 m event at the 2021 European U23 Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. At the same event, she was selected for the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.

In 2022, Ponette finished second at the 2022 Belgian Athletics Championships behind Naomi Van Den Broeck in the 400 m with a time of 51.93 s. She was the fifth Belgian to run faster than 52 s. She thus secured a place in the Belgian 4 x 400 m relay team for the World Championships later that year in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

In 2024, at the World Athletics Relays in The Bahamas, she was on the team that qualified Belgium for the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, France. And later that same year, she was on the Belgian 4 x 400 metres women's relay team that won a bronze medal at the European Athletics Championships having anchored the team in the final.