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Olivier Cauwenbergh | |
Birth Date: | 15 March 1987 |
Birth Place: | Mechelen, Belgium |
Weight: | 700NaN0 |
Sport: | Canoeing |
Event: | Sprint canoe |
Club: | KCC Mechelen |
Coach: | Carlos Prendes |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Olivier Cauwenbergh (born 15 March 1987) is a Belgian sprint canoeist.[1] [2] Cauwenbergh is a member of Royal Canoe Club Mechelen (Dutch; Flemish: 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]