Ward Bauwens
Olympic athlete
1993 –
Who is Ward Bauwens?
Ward Bauwens is a Belgian swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events. Bauwens is a resident athlete for Brabo Antwerp, and currently, a medicine student at the University of Antwerp.
Before his Olympic debut, Bauwens broke his own 400 IM record several times. On March 16, 2012, he posted a time of 4:19.55 to blast a 16-year-old record, held by Stefaan Maene since 1995, at the Belgian Championships in Antwerp.
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. He surged past Luxembourg's Raphaƫl 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.
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