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Laurens Pannecoucke | |
Birth Date: | 19 July 1988 |
Birth Place: | Kortrijk, Belgium |
Weight: | 820NaN0 |
Sport: | Canoeing |
Event: | Sprint canoe |
Club: | Bloso Hazewinkel |
Coach: | Carlos Prendes |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Laurens Pannecoucke (born 19 July 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] The pair also competed in the K-2 200 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics.