Olivier Cauwenbergh Explained

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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
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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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Olivier Cauwenbergh. London 2012. 20 February 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130501231826/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/cauwenbergh-olivier-1129175/. 1 May 2013.
  2. Olivier Cauwenbergh. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418114543/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ca/olivier-cauwenbergh-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 20 February 2013.
  3. News: Cauwenbergh en Pannecoucke veroveren ticket voor Londen. Cauwenbergh and Pannecoucke guaranteed ticket to London. Dutch. Bloso. 22 August 2011. 20 February 2013.
  4. Web site: Men's Kayak Double (K2) 1000m Final B. London 2012. 20 February 2013. 21 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120821073324/http://www.london2012.com/canoe-sprint/event/kayak-double-1000m-men/phase=cfm121100/index.html. dead.
  5. Web site: Men's Kayak Double (K2) 200m Final B. London 2012. 20 February 2013. 11 April 2013. https://archive.today/20130411071441/http://www.london2012.com/canoe-sprint/event/kayak-double-200m-men/phase=cfm122100/index.html. dead.