Olivier Cauwenbergh

Olivier Cauwenbergh
Olivier Cauwenbergh in 2012
Personal information
Nationality Belgium
Born (1987-03-15) 15 March 1987 (age 37)
Mechelen, Belgium
Height1.71 m (5 ft 7+12 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
SportCanoeing
EventSprint canoe
ClubKCC Mechelen[1]
Coached byCarlos Prendes[1]

Olivier Cauwenbergh (born 15 March 1987) is a Belgian sprint canoeist.[1][2] Cauwenbergh is a member of Royal Canoe Club Mechelen (Dutch: Koninklijke Cano Club Mechelen), and thus is coached and trained by Carlos Prendes.[1]

Cauwenbergh qualified for the men's K-2 1000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by finishing fourth from the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Szeged, Hungary.[3] Cauwenbergh and his partner Laurens Pannecoucke paddled to a second-place finish and tenth overall in the B-final by forty-seven hundredths of a second (0.47) behind the winning Danish pair Kim Wraae Knudsen and Emil Stær Simensen, posting their best Olympic time of 3:13.298.[4] Three days later, the Belgian pair edged out Romania's Ionuț Mitrea and Bogdan Mada for fourth place by ten seconds, in the B-final of the men's K-2 200 metres, clocking at 36.336 seconds.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Olivier Cauwenbergh". London 2012. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Olivier Cauwenbergh". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  3. ^ "Cauwenbergh en Pannecoucke veroveren ticket voor Londen" [Cauwenbergh and Pannecoucke guaranteed ticket to London] (in Dutch). Bloso. 22 August 2011. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  4. ^ "Men's Kayak Double (K2) 1000m Final B". London 2012. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  5. ^ "Men's Kayak Double (K2) 200m Final B". London 2012. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
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