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Carlos Van den Driessche

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Died
  
14 May 1972 (aged 70)

Weight
  
109 kg

Height
  
1.88 m

Name
  
Carlos den

Sport
  
Rowing, ice hockey


Born
  
31 August 1901
Brussels, Belgium

Club
  
CRB, Bruxelles BIHC, Bruxelles

Charles Georges "Carlos" Van den Driessche (31 August 1901 – 14 May 1972) was a Belgian ice hockey player and rower. As a hockey player he won a bronze medal at the 1924 European Championships and finished 7th and 13th at the 1924 and 1936 Winter Olympics, respectively.

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. Next year he won a European bronze medal in the double sculls with Louis Strauwen.

Van den Driessche served as the president of the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation in 1949–1951, 1953–1955 and 1960–1965.

References

Carlos Van den Driessche Wikipedia