Laurens Pannecoucke

Laurens Pannecoucke
Personal information
Nationality  Belgium
Born (1988-07-19) 19 July 1988
Kortrijk, Belgium
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 12 in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport Canoeing
Event(s) Sprint canoe
Club Bloso Hazewinkel[1]
Coached by Carlos Prendes[1]

Laurens Pannecoucke /ˈpɑːnəˌkkə/ (born July 19, 1988 in Kortrijk) is a Belgian sprint canoeist.[1][2] Pannecoucke is a member of the canoe and kayak team for Bloso Hazewinkel Sports Club in Willebroek, and is coached and trained by Carlos Prendes.[1]

Pannecoucke qualified for the men's K-2 1000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by finishing fourth from the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.[3] Pannecoucke and his partner Olivier Cauwenbergh paddled to a second-place finish and tenth overall in the B-final by forty-seven hundredths of a second (0.47) behind the winning Danish pair Kim Wraae Knudsen and Emil Stær Simensen, posting their best Olympic time of 3:13.298.[4] Three days later, the Belgian pair edged out Romania's Ionuț Mitrea and Bogdan Mada for fourth place by ten seconds, in the B-final of the men's K-2 200 metres, clocking at 36.336 seconds.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Laurens Pannecoucke". London 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  2. "Laurens Pannecoucke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  3. "Cauwenbergh en Pannecoucke veroveren ticket voor Londen" [Cauwenbergh and Pannecoucke guaranteed ticket to London] (in Dutch). Bloso. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  4. "Men's Kayak Double (K2) 1000m Final B". London 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  5. "Men's Kayak Double (K2) 200m Final B". London 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2013.

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