Laurens Christiaan Looije (born January 12, 1973, in The Hague, South Holland) 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.
Achievements Representing the 1991European Junior ChampionshipsThessaloniki, Greece10th4.90 m1992World Junior ChampionshipsSeoul, South Korea1st5.45 m1993World Indoor ChampionshipsToronto, Canada18th (q)5.30 m1996European Indoor ChampionshipsStockholm, Sweden14th (q)5.45 mOlympic GamesAtlanta, United States23rd (q)5.40 m1997World ChampionshipsAthens, Greece27th (q)5.30 m1998European ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary10th5.40 m2000European Indoor ChampionshipsGhent, Belgium13th (q)5.20 m2001UniversiadeBeijing, PR China 3rd5.60 m2005European Indoor ChampionshipsMadrid, Spain15th (q)5.40 m2006World Indoor ChampionshipsMoscow, Russia14th (q)5.45 mEuropean ChampionshipsGothenburg, Sweden8th5.50 m
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