Charles Georges "Carlos" Van den Driessche (31 August 1901 – 14 May 1972) was a Belgian ice hockey 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 and 1936 Winter Olympics, respectively.

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.

Carlos Van den Driessche

Van den Driessche served as the president of the Royal Belgian Ice Hockey Federation in 1949–1951, 1953–1955 and 1960–1965.

Carlos Van den Driessche

See also

List of athletes who competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games

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1901 births

1972 deaths

20th-century Belgian people

Belgian male rowers

European Rowing Championships medalists

Ice hockey players at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Ice hockey players at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Olympic ice hockey players for Belgium

Olympic rowers for Belgium

Rowers at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Sportspeople from Brussels

Belgian ice hockey centres

Ice hockey coaches

Carlos Van den Driessche