Ward Bauwens
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
.svg.png){kind=small} Belgium |
| Born |
4 May 1993 Leuven, Belgium |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Individual medley |
| Club | Brabo Antwerp[1] |
Ward Bauwens (born May 4, 1993 in Leuven) is a Belgian swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events.[1][2] Bauwens is a resident athlete for Brabo Antwerp, and currently, a medicine student at the University of Antwerp.[1]
Before his Olympic debut, Bauwens broke his own 400 IM record several times. On March 16, 2012, he posted a time of 4:19.55 to blast a 16-year-old record (4:19.82), held by Stefaan Maene since 1995, at the Belgian Championships in Antwerp.[3]
Bauwens qualified for the men's 400 m individual medley, by clearing a 4:19 barrier, and eclipsing a FINA B-cut of 4:18.24 from the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.[4][5] He surged past Luxembourg's Raphaël Stacchiotti with a freestyle kick to top the second heat by 0.49 of a second, breaking his own Belgian record of 4:16.71. Bauwens failed to advance into the final, as he placed sixteenth overall on the first day of the preliminaries.[6]
References
- 1 2 3 "Ward Bauwens". London 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- ↑ "Ward Bauwens". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
- ↑ Claessen, Luc (27 May 2012). "Ward Bauwens zwemt Belgisch record op EK zwemmen" [Ward Bauwens swims and breaks Belgian record at the European Championships] (in Dutch). Clint. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 400 m individual medley" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ↑ "Bauwens zwemt naar finale in Belgisch record" [Bauwens swims to finals with a Belgian record] (in Dutch). Sporza. 27 May 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ↑ "Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2013.