Luke Pougnalt (born 13 June 1980 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian former rower. He was an Australian youth national champion and a medalist at senior World Rowing Championships.

State and club rowing

Pougnault attended

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where he took up rowing. Pougnault first made state selection for Western Australia in the 1998 youth eight contesting the Noel Wilkinson Trophy at the

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. He competed in the West Australian youth eight again in 1999 and 2000, rowing to a victory at the Interstate Regatta in 2000. In 2001 he was selected in the Western Australia senior eight contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta. He rowed in further West Australian King's Cup eights crew in 2002 and 2003.

International representative rowing

Pougnalt made his Australian representative debut in a coxed pair at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne where he placed second. Later that year at the 2000

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in Copenhagen he raced a coxless pair with Josh Keogh to a fourth placing.Pougnault at World Rowing
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in Linz he again placed fourth, this time in the Australian coxless four. In 2002 he was in contention for the Australian eight and raced in that boat the World Rowing Cup III in Munich to a second placing. However he didn't secure a seat in the eight at the

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in Seville where he raced in the coxed four. The four didn't make the final being eliminated in a repechage. In 2003 he rowed in the men's eight and in a coxless pair (with

Jonathan Fievez Jonathan Fievez (born 25 April 1978 in Perth, Western Australia) is an Australian former rower. He was a junior world champion, national champion and was a medalist at World Rowing Championships. State and club rowing Fievez first made state se ...

) at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne and then at the

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he and Fievez raced as a coxed pair with

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up front. They won a silver World Championship medal.

References

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