Carlos Vandendriessche
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Birth name | Charles Georges Van den Driessche | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 31 August 1901 Brussels, Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 14 May 1972 (aged 70) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 109 kg (240 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing, ice hockey | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | CRB, Bruxelles BIHC, Bruxelles | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Charles Georges "Carlos" Van den Driessche (31 August 1901 – 14 May 1972) was a Belgian ice hockey player and rower. As a hockey player he won a bronze medal at the 1924 European Championships[1] and finished seventh and thirteenth at the 1924 and 1936 Winter Olympics, respectively.[2]
As a rower he competed in the coxless pairs at the 1928 Summer Olympics, together with the fellow ice hockey player Philippe Van Volckxsom, but failed to reach the final.[2] He won a bronze medal in the double sculls with Louis Strauwen at the 1929 European Rowing Championships.[3]
Van den Driessche served as the president of the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation in 1949–1951, 1953–1955 and 1960–1965.[4]
References
- ^ Malolepszy, Tomasz (2013). European Ice Hockey Championship Results: Since 1910. Scarecrow Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-8108-8782-4.
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carlos Van den Driessche". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
- ^ Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Doppelzweier) Archived 25 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine sport-komplett.de
- ^ Presidents of the Belgian Ice Hockey Federation. rbihf.be
Categories:
- 1901 births
- 1972 deaths
- Ice hockey players at the 1924 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Rowers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players of Belgium
- Olympic rowers of Belgium
- Belgian male rowers
- Sportspeople from Brussels
- Belgian ice hockey players
- Belgian rowing biography stubs
- Belgian winter sports biography stubs
- European ice hockey biography stubs