Anouk Geurts

Anouk Geurts

Personal information
Nationality	Belgian
Born	(2000-04-03) 3 April 2000 (age 24) Ghent, Belgium
Sailing career
Class	49er FX
Medal record Representing  Belgium European Championships 2024 La Grande-Motte 49er FX

Anouk Geurts (3 April 2000) is a Belgian sailor. She has competed in the 49 FX class at the 2020 Summer Olympics together with Isaura Maenhaut.^[1]

Career

Geurts started her career in the small Optimist class at the age of 10. She then progressed to the Laser 4.7 class, where she became Belgian and European champion in 2016.^[2]

Having been on different Nacra 17 crews as part of a project in the run-up for the 2020 Summer Olympics, Geurts and Maenhaut were finally put together in 2018 in the 49er FX class after the Nacra 17 project was stopped because of several injuries.^[3] They finished 31st at the 2020 World Championships and secured their Olympic ticket for Tokyo at the 2021 Lanzarote sailing competition.^[4] They finished 14th in Tokyo. By finishing 4th at the 2023 World Championships in The Hague, The Netherlands, they secured their Olympic ticket for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.^[5]

Geurts and Maenhaut won the 49er FX European Championships in 2024 in La Grande-Motte, France.^[6]

Personal life

Geurts lives in Schoten and studies psychology.^[2]

Awards

• 2016: Young Sailor of the Year award from Belgian Sailing
• 2019: Sailing Team of the Year award from Belgian Sailing^[7]

Notes

1. "Anouk Geurts". Team Belgium (in Dutch). Belgian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
2. "Olympic Team 49erFX". Wind- en Watersport Vlaanderen. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
3. "Beste vriendinnen per toeval aan elkaar gekoppeld in (zeil)jacht op olympisch succes: "Het plaatje klopt"" (in Dutch). Sporza. 6 March 2024. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
4. "Zeilsters Isaura Maenhaut en Anouk Geurts vlammen naar Tokio 2021". Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 26 March 2021. Archived from the original on 27 May 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
5. "Emma Plasschaert wordt 2e in medal race en sluit WK zeilen af op 6e plaats" (in Dutch). Sporza. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
6. "Championship glory for Belgium, Uruguay and Great Britain" (in Dutch). www.49er.org. 12 May 2023. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
7. "Hall of Fame Sailing Awards". Belgian Sailing. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.

External links

• Anouk Geurts at World Sailing
• Anouk Geurts at Olympics.com
• Anouk Geurts at Olympedia (archive)
• Anouk Geurts at Team Belgium (in Dutch and French)