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 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
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]