Luke Pougnault
{{Short description|Australian rower}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=March 2014}}
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| birth_date = 13 June 1980
| birth_place = Perth, Western Australia
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| education = Trinity College, Perth
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| years_active = 1994 - 2003
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Luke Pougnalt (born 13 June 1980) is an Australian teacher and former rower. He was an Australian youth national champion and a medalist at senior World Rowing Championships. He currently works at Ballarat Grammar, where he served as Director of Rowing from 2011 to 2015.
State and club rowing
Pougnault attended Trinity College, Perth, 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 Australian Rowing Championships.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1998.php#MYth |title=1998 Interstate Regatta |access-date=5 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505071124/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1998.php#MYth |archive-date=5 May 2018 |url-status=dead }} He competed in the West Australian youth eight again in 1999 and 2000, rowing to a victory at the Interstate Regatta in 2000.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2000.php#MYth |title=2000 Interstate Regatta |access-date=5 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505204837/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2000.php#MYth |archive-date=5 May 2018 |url-status=dead }} In 2001 he was selected in the Western Australia senior eight contesting the King's Cup at the Interstate Regatta.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2001.php#MYth |title=2001 Interstate Regatta |access-date=5 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929000603/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/2001.php#MYth |archive-date=29 September 2018 |url-status=dead }} He rowed in further West Australian King's Cup eights crew in 2002 and 2003.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1999.php#MYth |title=1999 Interstate Regatta |access-date=5 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180507085238/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/interstate-championships/1999.php#MYth |archive-date=7 May 2018 |url-status=dead }}
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 World Rowing U23 Championships in Copenhagen he raced a coxless pair with Josh Keogh to a fourth placing.[https://worldrowing.com/athlete/luke-pougnault?id=8807 Pougnault at World Rowing] At the 2001 World Rowing U23 Championships 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 did not secure a seat in the eight at the 2002 World Rowing Championships in Seville where he raced in the coxed four. The four did not 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) at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne and then at the 2003 World Rowing Championships he and Fievez raced as a coxed pair with Marc Douez up front. They won a silver World Championship medal.
Personal life
In 2011, Pougnalt transferred from Western Australia to Ballarat, Victoria,{{Cite web |last=Whelan |first=Melanie |date=November 2, 2012 |title=Grammar, College triumph in Boat Race |url=https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/554737/grammar-college-triumph-in-boat-race/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=The Courier}} where he served as Ballarat Grammar's Director of Rowing from 2011 to 2015.{{Cite magazine |date=2022 |title=GOLDEN DETERMINATION |url=https://issuu.com/ballaratgrammar/docs/bg_boomalacka_issue_122_issuu_hr/s/14451452 |access-date=May 23, 2025 |magazine=Boomalacka |publisher=Ballarat Grammar |via=Issuu |issue=122}} In 2012, his crew won Boys' Head of the Lake, a school regatta held annually on Lake Wendouree.{{Cite web |last=Brehaut |first=David |date=November 2, 2012 |title=Boys' Head of the Lake |url=https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/553850/boys-head-of-the-lake/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=The Courier}} He is currently a teacher and staff member at the school.
References
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Category:Australian male rowers
Category:People from Western Australia
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Australia