Laurent Carnol Explained
Laurent Carnol (born 17 October 1989) is a Luxembourgish swimmer, who specialized in breaststroke events.[1] [2] Carnol set national records of 1:01.39 (100 m) and 2:09.78 (200 m) in the men's breaststroke at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, and at the 2012 European Long Course Meet in Luxembourg City, respectively.[3] [4] Carnol is also a member of SC Le Dauphin Ettelbruck under his personal coach Ian Armiger, and currently, a chemistry student at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England.[5] [6]
Carnol made his first Luxembourgian team, as a 19-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He qualified for the men's 200 m breaststroke by eclipsing a FINA B-cut of 2:17.29 from the European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[7] [8] Carnol challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat including three-time Olympian Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson of Iceland. He raced to third place by 0.29 of a second behind Sveinsson in his lifetime best of 2:15.87. Carnol failed to qualify for the semifinals, as he placed fortieth overall in the evening preliminaries.[9]
Four years after competing in his last Olympics, Carnol qualified for his second Luxembourgish team, as a 23-year-old, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by attaining an A-standard entry time of 2:09.78 (200 m breaststroke) from the European Long Course Meet in Luxembourg City.[4] [10] On the first day of the morning preliminaries, Carnol won the second heat of the men's 100 m breaststroke by nearly half a second (0.50) ahead of Serbia's Čaba Silađi, with a time of 1:01.46. His storming victory was not sufficiently enough to put him through the next round, as Carnol placed twenty-sixth out of 44 swimmers in the preliminary heats.[11] In the 200 m breaststroke, Carnol recorded the twelfth fastest qualifying time of 2:10.83 to secure his place for the semifinals.[12] [13] Carnol fell short in his bid for the final, as he finished the semifinal run by 0.03 of a second behind New Zealand's Glenn Snyders in a second slowest time of 2:11.17.[14] Achieving his best finish, Carnol became the first ever Luxembourgian swimmer to reach the semifinals at the Olympics.
He again competed for Luxembourg in both events at the 2016 Olympics.
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Notes and References
- Web site: Laurent Carnol. London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 11 February 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130518102103/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/carnol-laurent-1093443/. 18 May 2013.
- Laurent Carnol. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418022216/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/laurent-carnol-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 11 February 2013.
- Web site: 2010 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Budapest, Hungary) – Men's 100m Breaststroke. PDF. Omega Timing. 10 February 2013.
- News: Euro Long Course Meet: Laurent Carnol, Ioannis Drymonakos Set Meet Records; Post Early Season Bellwether Marks; Ian Thorpe Competes . . 28 January 2012 . 11 February 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140602021234/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/World/29418.asp . 2 June 2014 .
- News: Eggert. Greg. First impressions and blistering marks at London Aquatics Centre. FINA. 8 March 2012. 11 February 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20120815232656/http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2779:good-swimming-performances-in-the-olympic-aquatic-centre&catid=348:swimming-news&Itemid=1285. 15 August 2012. dead. dmy-all.
- News: UK student is Luxembourg's Olympic hopeful. Wort.lu. 27 January 2012. 11 February 2013.
- Web site: Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Breaststroke. 31. Swimming World Magazine. 9 April 2013.
- Web site: 2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Men's 200m Breaststroke Heats. PDF. Omega Timing. 11 February 2013.
- Web site: Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 2 . . . 11 February 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120821003419/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWM032900/index.html . 21 August 2012 .
- News: Qualifying Athletes – Men's 200 m breaststroke . . 11 February 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121116051310/http://www.fina.org/H2O/docs/events/london2012/sw/qual_lists/men_200breast.pdf . 16 November 2012 .
- Web site: Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2. London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 11 February 2013. 4 December 2012. https://archive.today/20121204141939/http://www.london2012.com/swimming/event/men-100m-breaststroke/phase=swm031900/index.html. dead.
- Web site: Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 5. London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 11 February 2013.
- News: 2012 London Olympics: Daniel Gyurta Posts Olympic Textile Best to Lead 200 Breast Qualifying; Kosuke Kitajima Keeps Threepeat Hopes Alive; Clark Burckle, Scott Weltz in Top Eight . . 31 July 2012 . 1 April 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130128025350/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/World/31479.asp . 28 January 2013 .
- Web site: Men's 200m Breaststroke Semifinals 1. London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. 11 February 2013. 2 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130402120008/http://www.london2012.com/swimming/event/men-200m-breaststroke/phase%3Dswm032200/index.html. dead.
