| Loran de Munck | ||||||||||||
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 De Munck at the 2022 European Championships | ||||||||||||
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| Country represented |  Netherlands | |||||||||||
| Born | 9 May 1999 [1] Haarlem, Netherlands | |||||||||||
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||
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Loran de Munck OLY (born 9 May 1999) is a Dutch artistic gymnast.
De Munck had his European Championships debut in Szczecin 2019. After missing the European Championships pommel horse final with 9th place in the qualification in 2021 he qualified for the final in Munich 2022. There he became the first Dutch pommel horse medallist with a silver medal behind Harutyun Merdinyan. [2]
In his first World Artistic Gymnastics Championships final, 2022 in Liverpool, De Munck placed 6th in the pommel horse final after a fall. [3]
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