Olivier Cauwenbergh
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BelgiumMechelen, Belgium
 Olivier Cauwenbergh in 2012 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Belgium |
| Born | 15 March 1987 Mechelen, Belgium |
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Canoeing |
| Event | Sprint canoe |
| Club | KCC Mechelen[1] |
| Coached by | Carlos Prendes[1] |
Olivier Cauwenbergh (born 15 March 1987) is a Belgian sprint canoeist.[1][2] Cauwenbergh is a member of Royal Canoe Club Mechelen (Dutch: 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]
