Laurent Carnol

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 Leicester, England.[5][6]

Laurent Carnol
Personal information
Full nameLaurent Carnol
National team Luxembourg
Born (1989-10-17) 17 October 1989
Ettelbruck, Luxembourg
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke
ClubSC Le Dauphin Ettelbruck
(LUX)[1]
College teamLoughborough University
(GBR)[1]
CoachIan Armiger[1]

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.[2]

References
  1. "Laurent Carnol". London 2012. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Laurent Carnol". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  3. "2010 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Budapest, Hungary) – Men's 100m Breaststroke" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  4. "Euro Long Course Meet: Laurent Carnol, Ioannis Drymonakos Set Meet Records; Post Early Season Bellwether Marks; Ian Thorpe Competes". Swimming World Magazine. 28 January 2012. Archived from the original on 2 June 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  5. Eggert, Greg (8 March 2012). "First impressions and blistering marks at London Aquatics Centre". FINA. Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  6. "UK student is Luxembourg's Olympic hopeful". Wort.lu. 27 January 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  7. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Men's 200m Breaststroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 31. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  8. "2008 LEN European Aquatics Championships (Eindhoven, Netherlands) – Men's 200m Breaststroke Heats" (PDF). Omega Timing. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  9. "Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  10. "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 200 m breaststroke" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  11. "Men's 100m Breaststroke Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  12. "Men's 200m Breaststroke Heat 5". London 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
  13. "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". Swimming World Magazine. 31 July 2012. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
  14. "Men's 200m Breaststroke Semifinals 1". London 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
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