Olivier Cauwenbergh (born 15 March 1987) is a Belgian sprint canoeist.
Cauwenbergh is a member of Royal Canoe Club Mechelen ( nl, Koninklijke Cano Club Mechelen), and thus is coached and trained by Carlos Prendes.
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Cauwenbergh qualified for the men's K-2 1000 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in ]London
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, by finishing fourth from the 2011 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
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in Szeged
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, Hungary
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. 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. 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.
References
External links
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NBC Olympics Profile
1987 births
Belgian male canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists for Belgium
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Mechelen
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