Antoon De Brauwer (
Hasselt
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, 11 February 1964) is a
Belgian canoe sprinter who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. At the
1984 Summer Olympics
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in
Los Angeles
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, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the
K-1 500 m and
K-1 1000 m events.
Eight years later in
Barcelona
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, De Brauwer was eliminated in the semifinals of the
K-2 1000 m event and the
repechage
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s of the
K-2 500 m event.
References
Sports-Reference.com profile
1964 births
Belgian male canoeists
Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Belgium
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