Laurens Looije

Olympic athlete

1973 –

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Who is Laurens Looije?

Laurens Christiaan Looije is a Dutch pole vaulter, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

Looije finished 8th in the pole vault final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg. He was also the 1992 World Junior champion, and won a bronze medal at the 2001 Summer Universiade.

His personal best is 5.71 metres, achieved in August 1998 in Hechtel. He is a five times outdoor and nine times indoor Dutch national champion.

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Born
Jan 12, 1973
The Hague
Nationality
  • Netherlands
Lived in
  • The Hague

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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