Charles Georges "Carlos" Van den Driessche (31 August 1901 – 14 May 1972) was a Belgian

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

player and rower. As a hockey player he won a bronze medal at the 1924 European Championships and finished seventh and thirteenth at the

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

and

1936 Winter Olympics The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (german: IV. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 ( bar, Garmasch-Partakurch 1936), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 ...

, respectively. As a rower he competed in the

coxless pair A coxless pair is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two rowers, who propel the boat with sweep oars. The crew consists of a pair of rowers, each having one oar, one on the stroke side (rower's right h ...

s at the

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from ...

, together with the fellow ice hockey player Philippe Van Volckxsom, but failed to reach the final. He won a bronze medal in the

double scull A double scull is a rowing boat used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for two persons who propel the boat by sculling with two oars each, one in each hand. Racing boats (often called "shells") are long, narrow, and broadly s ...

s with Louis Strauwen at the

1929 European Rowing Championships The 1929 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Bydgoszcz Regatta Course in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz in the suburb of Łęgnowo. The competition was for men only and they competed in all seven Olympic boat classes ...

.Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Doppelzweier)
sport-komplett.de Van den Driessche served as the president of the

Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation The Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation (RBIHF) is the Belgian ice hockey federation, known in Dutch as the ''Koninklijke Belgische IJshockey Federatie'' (KBIJF) and in French as the ''Fédération Royale Belge de Hockey sur Glace'' (FRBHG). It is ...

in 1949–1951, 1953–1955 and 1960–1965.Presidents of the Belgian Ice Hockey Federation
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References

1901 births 1972 deaths Ice hockey players at the 1924 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics Rowers at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic ice hockey players of Belgium Olympic rowers of Belgium Belgian male rowers Sportspeople from Brussels European Rowing Championships medalists 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-icehockey-bio-stub