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Thomas Lærke
No. 10 – Telekom Baskets Bonn II
PositionGuard
Personal information
Born (1991-04-04) 4 April 1991 (age 33)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Listed height6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Career information
High schoolGainesville (Gainesville, Florida)
NBA draft2013: undrafted
Playing career2010–present
Career history
2010–2011Peñas Huesca
2011Pas Piélagos
2011–2012Pla de Na Tesa
2012Araberri
2012–2013Pla de Na Tesa
2013–2017Bakken Bears
2017Nokia
2017–2022Bakken Bears
2022VfL Kirchheim Knights
2022–2023Esgueira Basket
2023CB Morón
2023–presentTelekom Baskets Bonn II
Career highlights and awards

Thomas Lærke (born 4 April 1991) is a Danish professional basketball player. He is currently playing for the Telekom Baskets Bonn II in the German Regionalliga West.

He was a member of the Danish national basketball team and participated at the 2015 EuroBasket qualification.

Professional career

Lærke started his professional career in 2011 in Spain with Huesca of the LEB Oro.

In 2013, Lærke returned to Denmark by signing with Bakken Bears. With the Bears, he won two national championships and two national cups over a four year span.

On 7 July 2017, he signed with BC Nokia of the Finnish Korisliiga. In December 2017, Lærke returned to Bakken Bears. He parted company with the Bears at the conclusion of the 2021-22 season after winning a total of seven national championships with the team. In 2018, 2020 and 2022, he reached the semifinal of the FIBA Europe Cup with the Bakken side.

Lærke continued his career abroad, signing with the VfL Kirchheim Knights of the German second-tier league ProA in late September 2022. He saw action in three ProA contests, averaging 7.7 points a game. His short-term-contract was not renewed in October 2022. Subsequently, Lærke moved to Esgueira Basket of Portugal's first-tier league. On 1 March 2023 he was signed by CB Morón of Spain's LEB Plata.

He signed with Telekom Baskets Bonn's second men's team in November 2023 to play in the German Regionalliga West.

References

  1. Thomas Laerke | EuroBasket 2015, eurobasket2015.org, accessed 7 Dec 2015.
  2. "Thomas Lærke til Bakken Bears". basketligaen.dk. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017.
  3. Tanskalainen Thomas Laerke BC Nokian takakentälle
  4. "THOMAS LÆRKE TILBAGE TIL AARHUS" (in Danish). 19 December 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
  5. Pfaff, Sebastian (1 June 2022). "Thomas Lærke stopper i Bakken Bears". Fullcourt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  6. Alexander Christiansen (30 September 2022). "Thomas Lærke har fundet sin nye klub". Fullcourt (in Danish). Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  7. "Thomas Laerke". 2. Basketball-Bundesliga (in German). Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  8. "Zusätzliche Zentimeter unterm Korb für die Kirchheim Knights". Nürtinger Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 21 October 2022.
  9. Christiansen, Alexander (5 November 2022). "Thomas Lærke har fundet sin nye klub". Fullcourt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  10. "El Minuiscenter Morón incorpora al alero danés Thomas Lærke". Federación Española de Baloncesto (in Spanish). 1 March 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  11. "Willkommen von den ProBaskets e.V. Thomas Laerke!". de.linkedin.com. Retrieved 26 December 2023.

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