Carlos Vandendriessche Explained

Birth Name:Carlos Urbain Anna Stella Henri Vandendriessche
Birth Date:31 August 1901
Birth Place:Brussels, Belgium
Death Date:14 May 1972 (aged 70)
Height:188 cm
Weight:109 kg
Sport:Rowing, ice hockey
Club:CRB, Bruxelles
BIHC, Bruxelles
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Carlos Urbain Anna Stella Henri Vandendriessche (31 August 1901[1] – 14 May 1972) was a Belgian ice hockey player and rower.[2] As a hockey player he won a bronze medal at the 1924 European Championships[3] and finished seventh and thirteenth at the 1924 and 1936 Winter Olympics, respectively.[4]

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.[4] He won a bronze medal in the double sculls with Louis Strauwen at the 1929 European Rowing Championships.[5]

Vandendriessche served as the president of the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation in 1949–1951, 1953–1955 and 1960–1965.[6]

Notes and References

  1. birth certificate 3107, Brussels 1901
  2. Web site: Carlos Van den Driessche . Olympedia . 15 August 2023.
  3. Book: Malolepszy, Tomasz . European Ice Hockey Championship Results: Since 1910 . 2013 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0-8108-8782-4 . 12.
  4. Carlos Van den Driessche . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418112216/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/carlos-van-den-driessche-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 22 June 2018 .
  5. http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/64.html Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Doppelzweier)
  6. https://www.rbihf.be/node/3711 Presidents of the Belgian Ice Hockey Federation