 Paul Hoekstra and Jean-Pierre Burny (right) in 1975 | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 12 November 1944 (age 79) Mont-Saint-Guibert, Brabant Wallon, Belgium | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | canoe sprint | ||||||||||||||
| Club | KCC Gent, Gent RCNML, Anseremme | ||||||||||||||
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Jean-Pierre Burny (born 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.
