 Paul Hoekstra and Jean-Pierre Burny (right) in 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 12 November 1944 (1944-11-12) (age 80) Mont-Saint-Guibert, Brabant Wallon, Belgium | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | canoe sprint | ||||||||||||||
| Club | KCC Gent, Gent RCNML, Anseremme | ||||||||||||||
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Jean-Pierre Burny (Mont-Saint-Guibert, 12 November 1944) is a Belgian canoe sprinter who competed from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. He won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-2 500 m: 1971) and a bronze (K-1 500 m: 1970).
Burny also competed in three Summer Olympics in 1968–1976 with the best result of fourth place in the K-1 1000 m event in 1972.
References
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jean-Pierre Burny". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 25 July 2009.
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- Canoeists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Living people
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- ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
- People from Mont-Saint-Guibert
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