a couple of months later, at the 2009 world championships, kevin reached the semi-finals on the 400 m with 45.28s. on the 4 × 400 m relay with teammates antoine gillet, nils duerinck and cédric van branteghem (jonathan was out with a stress fracture), they finished 1st in their heat with 3:02.13s and finished 4th in the final in 3:01.88s.