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| Birth name | Carlos Urbain Anna Stella Henri Vandendriessche | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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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Carlos Urbain Anna Stella Henri Vandendriessche (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 and finished seventh and thirteenth at the 1924 and 1936 Winter Olympics, respectively.
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. He won a bronze medal in the double sculls with Louis Strauwen at the 1929 European Rowing Championships.
Vandendriessche served as the president of the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation in 1949–1951, 1953–1955 and 1960–1965.
See also
References
- birth certificate 3107, Brussels 1901
- "Carlos Van den Driessche". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- Malolepszy, Tomasz (2013). European Ice Hockey Championship Results: Since 1910. Scarecrow Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-8108-8782-4.
- ^ 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 18 April 2020. 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
External links
- Biographical information and career statistics from Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com
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- 1901 births
- 1972 deaths
- Belgian male rowers
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- Ice hockey players at the 1924 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players for Belgium
- Olympic rowers for Belgium
- Rowers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Brussels
- Belgian ice hockey centres
- Ice hockey coaches
- 20th-century Belgian sportsmen
- Belgian rowing biography stubs
- Belgian winter sports biography stubs
- European ice hockey biography stubs