Laurent Carnol

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Laurent Carnol
Personal information
Full nameLaurent Carnol
National teamFlag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg
Born (1989-10-17) 17 October 1989 (age 33)
Ettelbruck, Luxembourg
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
ClubSC Le Dauphin Ettelbruck
(LUX) [1]
College team Loughborough University
(GBR) [1]
CoachIan Armiger [1]
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Luxembourg
Games of the Small States of Europe
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Liechstenstein 200 m breaststroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Iceland 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Iceland 200 m breaststroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Iceland 200 m butterfly
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Iceland 4x100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Iceland 4x100 m medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Iceland 4x200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 San Marino 100 m breaststroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 San Marino 200 m breaststroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 San Marino 4x100 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Liechstenstein 100 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Liechstenstein 4x100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2007 Monaco 200 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2013 Luxembourg 400 m medley

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. [2]

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References

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