Ward Bauwens, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ward Bauwens

Olympic swimmer

Date of Birth: 04-May-1993

Place of Birth: Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

Profession: swimmer

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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WardBauwens

Ward Bauwens (born 4 May 1993 in Leuven) 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 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.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 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.