Carlos Vandendriessche

{{short description|Belgian ice hockey player and rower}}

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| birth_name = Carlos Urbain Anna Stella Henri Vandendriessche

| birth_date = 31 August 1901

| birth_place = Brussels, Belgium

| death_date = 14 May 1972 (aged 70)

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| height = 188 cm

| weight = 109 kg

| sport = Rowing, ice hockey

| club = CRB, Bruxelles
BIHC, Bruxelles

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{{MedalSport|Men's ice hockey}}

{{MedalCompetition|Ice Hockey European Championships}}

{{MedalBronze|1924 Milan|Team}}

{{MedalSport|Men's rowing}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Rowing Championships}}

{{MedalBronze | 1929 Bydgoszcz | Single sculls }}

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Carlos Urbain Anna Stella Henri Vandendriessche (31 August 1901birth certificate 3107, Brussels 1901 – 14 May 1972) was a Belgian ice hockey player and rower.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/35751 |title=Carlos Van den Driessche |work=Olympedia |access-date=15 August 2023}} As a hockey player he won a bronze medal at the 1924 European Championships{{cite book | first=Tomasz | last=Malolepszy |title=European Ice Hockey Championship Results: Since 1910 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6VUMSF3sH3kC&pg=PA12 |date=2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-8782-4 |page=12}} and finished seventh and thirteenth at the 1924 and 1936 Winter Olympics, respectively.{{Cite sports-reference |title = Carlos Van den Driessche |url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/carlos-van-den-driessche-1.html |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418112216/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/carlos-van-den-driessche-1.html |url-status = dead |archive-date = 18 April 2020 |access-date = 22 June 2018 }}

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. He won a bronze medal in the double sculls with Louis Strauwen at the 1929 European Rowing Championships.[http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/64.html Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Doppelzweier)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025155547/http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/rudern/hst/64.html |date=25 October 2014 }} sport-komplett.de

Vandendriessche served as the president of the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation in 1949–1951, 1953–1955 and 1960–1965.[https://www.rbihf.be/node/3711 Presidents of the Belgian Ice Hockey Federation]. rbihf.be