Dimitri Lauwers (born 30 April 1979) is a Belgian professional

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player. He also played for the Belgian national basketball team at

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Professional career

In the 1997 he made his debut with the

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and in 1998 he won the

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. After three season he left the team and went to play in

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, where he played with three teams (

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Cholet Cholet (, probably from Latin ''cauletum'', "cabbage") is a commune of western France, in the Maine-et-Loire department. With 54,307 inhabitants (2019), it is the second most populous commune of Maine-et-Loire, after the prefecture, Angers. ...

and

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) and won the French Leaders Cup in 2004. He then moved to

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to play with

Teramo Teramo (; ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo. The city, from Rome, is situated between the highest mountains of the Apennines ( Gran Sasso d'Italia) and the Adriatic coast. Th ...

Scafati Scafati () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Salerno, in the Italy, Italian region of Campania. Geography Scafati is situated on the river Sarno. Under the bridge over the river into the village, the Sarno divides into a primary ...

Virtus Bologna Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, known for sponsorship reasons as Virtus Segafredo Bologna, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1929, which makes it the oldest club in Italy and one ...

Varese Varese ( , ; or ; ; ; archaic ) is a city and ''comune'' in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, north-west of Milan. The population of Varese in 2018 was 80,559. It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or exurban part ...

and

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and won the LegaDue championship twice (in 2006 and 2009) and the LegaDue Cup (in 2006). In 2012 he came back to the

and won the

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. In 2013, he returned to play in Italy for Scaligera Verona and Sutor Montegranaro. He currently plays for

Recanati Recanati () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Macerata, in the Italian region of Marche. Recanati was founded around 1150 AD from three pre-existing castles. In 1290 it proclaimed itself an independent republic and, in the 15th c ...

External links

Dimitri Lauwers
at ''FIBA.com''.
Dimitri Lauwers
at legabasket.it 1979 births Living people BC Oostende players Belgian men's basketball players Belgium national basketball players Cholet Basket players JDA Dijon Basket players Le Mans Sarthe Basket players Pallacanestro Varese players S.S. Felice Scandone players Scafati Basket players Scaligera Basket Verona players Sutor Basket Montegranaro players Teramo Basket players Virtus Bologna players Shooting guards {{Belgium-basketball-bio-stub