Occupation
Athlete, Business Owner, Entertainment Industry
Education
Physiotherapy - Ghent University: Belgium
Family
Partner Ellen van Overberghe
Spoken languages
Dutch, English, French, German
Club
Lenig & Vlug Beveren-Leie: Belgium
Sporting relatives
His brother Wannes represented Belgium in trampoline gymnastics at the 2018 European Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan. His other brother Mattijs Geens has played football for the KFC Kontich club in Belgium. (SportsDeskOnline, 12 Oct 2018; gymfed.be, 30 May 2018, 29 Mar 2016)
Start sporting career
He first tried gymnastics at age two.
Most memorable sporting achievement
Competing at his first senior World Cup event in 2009, and reaching the final in the team trampoline and synchro events at the 2016 European Championships in Valladolid, Spain. (ffgym.be, 01 Oct 2018; gymfed.be, 30 May 2018; fig-gymnastics.com, 03 Apr 2016)
Hero / Idol
Japanese trampoline gymnast Tetsuya Sotomura. (gymfed.be, 14 Apr 2014)
Most influential person in career
His parents and his partner. (gymfed.be, 29 Mar 2016)
Additional information
OTHER ACTIVITIES
He owns an acrobatic performance troop called Cirq'ulation Locale. Based in Belgium the group travel around the globe providing entertainment through juggling, acrobatics, dance, humour, and improvisation. In 2014 he began working as a performer for Trampoline and Tumbling [TnT] Crew, who appeared on the reality television show 'Belgium's Got Talent' in 2016. (Cirq'ulation Locale Facebook page, 12 Oct 2018; TnT-crew Facebook page, 12 Oct 2018; Instagram profile, 22 Jul 2018; gymfed.be, 30 May 2018; gva.be, 30 Dec 2016)
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