Ward Bauwens
Personal information
Nationality Belgium
Born (1993-05-04) 4 May 1993
Leuven, Belgium
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesIndividual medley
ClubBrabo Antwerp[1]

Ward Bauwens (born 4 May 1993 in Leuven) is a Belgian swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events.[1][2] Bauwens is a resident athlete for Brabo Antwerp, and currently, a medicine student at the University of Antwerp.[1]

Before his Olympic debut, Bauwens broke his own 400 IM record several times. On 16 March 2012 he posted a time of 4:19.55 to blast a 16-year-old record (4:19.82), held by Stefaan Maene since 1995, at the Belgian Championships in Antwerp.[3]

Bauwens qualified for the men's 400 m individual medley, by clearing a 4:19 barrier, and eclipsing a FINA B-cut of 4:18.24 from the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.[4][5] He surged past Luxembourg's Raphaël Stacchiotti with a freestyle kick to top the second heat by 0.49 of a second, breaking his own Belgian record of 4:16.71. Bauwens failed to advance into the final, as he placed sixteenth overall on the first day of the preliminaries.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Ward Bauwens". London 2012. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ward Bauwens". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  3. ↑ Claessen, Luc (27 May 2012). "Ward Bauwens zwemt Belgisch record op EK zwemmen" [Ward Bauwens swims and breaks Belgian record at the European Championships] (in Dutch). Clint. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Qualifying Athletes – Men's 400 m individual medley" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-16. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Bauwens zwemt naar finale in Belgisch record" [Bauwens swims to finals with a Belgian record] (in Dutch). Sporza. 27 May 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  6. ↑ "Men's 400m Individual Medley Heat 2". London 2012. Archived from the original on 2 April 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2013.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.