Olivier Cauwenbergh

Olivier Cauwenbergh

Olivier Cauwenbergh in 2012
Personal information
Nationality  Belgium
Born (1987-03-15) 15 March 1987
Mechelen, Belgium
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Canoeing
Event(s) Sprint canoe
Club KCC Mechelen[1]
Coached by Carlos Prendes[1]

Olivier Cauwenbergh /oʊˈlɪvieɪ ˈkaʊənˌbɜːrɡ/ (born March 15, 1987 in Mechelen) 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

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Olivier Cauwenbergh". London 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "Olivier Cauwenbergh". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 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. Retrieved 20 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Men's Kayak Double (K2) 200m Final B". London 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2013.

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