Pierre-Marie Deloof

Pierre-Marie Deloof (born September 29, 1964 in Bruges ) is a former Belgian rower . Together with Dirk Crois, he won silver in a double scull at the 1984 Olympic Games .

Deloof took sixth place in the double scull in 1980 at the Junior World Championships. In 1981 and 1982 he won the bronze medal in single . In 1984 he won the silver medal at the Match des Seniors, the predecessor of the U23 World Championships .

At the 1984 Olympic Games, the field was thinned out in all boat classes, as two of the strongest rowing nations were absent due to the Olympic boycott with the DRR and the Soviet Union. In the double sculls, eleven boats were at the start, the Germans Andreas Schmelz and Georg Agrikola as well as Crois and Deloof made it directly to the final as the preliminary winners , the boats from the USA and Yugoslavia as well as Canada and Italy were added via the hope runs. The final won the US rowers Brad Alan Lewis and Paul Enquist with about 1.30 seconds ahead of the Belgians, who in turn had 1:40 seconds ahead of the Yugoslavs Zoran Pančić and Milorad Stanulov .

In the following year, at the 1985 World Championships, the double scull from the GDR won ahead of the boat from the Soviet Union, bronze went to the Swiss double scull, with Crois and Deloof taking fourth place a hundredth of a second behind. In 1987 in Copenhagen , the Belgians reached fifth place.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 Sportverlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5

Web links

• Pierre-Marie Deloof at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Pierre-Marie Deloof in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )