Laurens Pannecoucke
Personal information
Nationality Belgium
Born (1988-07-19) 19 July 1988
Kortrijk, Belgium
Height1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
SportCanoeing
EventSprint canoe
ClubBloso Hazewinkel[1]
Coached byCarlos Prendes[1]

Laurens Pannecoucke /ˈpɑːnəˌkuːkə/ (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.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Laurens Pannecoucke". London 2012. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  2. 1 2 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Laurens Pannecoucke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. 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. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Men's Kayak Double (K2) 200m Final B". London 2012. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2013.


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