Bob Baetens
Robert "Bob" Frédérik Louis Baetens (born October 28, 1930 in Antwerp ; † October 19, 2016 ) was a Belgian rower who came second in the 1952 Olympics and won four medals at European Championships.
Athletic career
Michel Knuysen and Bob Baetens from Antwerpse Roeivereniging won the 1951 European Championships in Mâcon in a pair without a helmsman in front of the boats from Denmark and Switzerland.
At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , 16 boats competed in twos. The Swiss Kurt Schmid and Hans Kalt won the first run ahead of the British, the Belgians and Charlie Logg and Thomas Price from the United States. Like the Americans, the Belgians won their run in both hope laps and reached the final, while the Swiss and British came to the finals as winners of the semi-finals. In the final, Logg and Price won almost three seconds ahead of the Belgians, nine seconds behind Schmid and Kalt received the bronze medal.
1953 won the European Championships in Copenhagen Igor Buldakow and Viktor Ivanov from the Soviet Union before Knuysen and Baetens and the Danes. Two years later, Buldakow and Ivanov won again at the European Championships in Gent , ahead of Knuysen and Baetens. 1956 at the European Championships in Bled Buldakow and Iwanow won ahead of the Austrians Josef Kloimstein and Alfred Sageder , Knuysen and Baetens received the bronze medal.
At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1956 , nine boats competed in twos. The Belgians took third place in the run-up and in the repechage, making them the only boat that did not reach the semi-finals.
Web links
- Bob Baetens in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- European championships in two without a helmsman at sport-komplett.de
Footnotes
- ↑ Obituary (archive page from vlaamse-roeiliga.be, accessed on April 11, 2020)
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 267f
- ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 412
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baetens, Bob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Baetens, Robert Frédérik Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th October 2016 |