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Medal record
Competitor for Belgium
Men’s Athletics
European Championships
Silver	Belgrade 1962	Marathon
Silver	Budapest 1966	Marathon

Aurèle Vandendriessche (born July 4, 1932 in Anzegem, West-Vlaanderen) is a retired marathon runner from Belgium, who won the silver medal at the 1962 European Championships, behind Great Britain's Brian Kilby.

Four years later at the same event Vandendriessche once again claimed the second place. Twice winner of the Boston Marathon (1963 and 1964), he represented Belgium at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1956.

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Enschede Men's Marathon Winners

1947: Eero Riikonen (FIN) • 1949: Jack Holden (ENG) • 1951: Veikko Karvonen (FIN) • 1953: Jim Peters (ENG) • 1955: Reinaldo Gorno (ARG) • 1957: Piet Bleeker (NED) • 1959: Pavel Kantorek (TCH) • 1961: Peter Wilkinson (GBR) • 1963: Václav Chudomel (TCH) • 1965: Aurèle Vandendriessche (BEL) • 1967: Yoshiro Mifune (JPN) • 1969: Kazuo Matsubara (JPN) • 1971: Bernie Allen (ENG) • 1973 – 1975: Ron Hill (ENG) • 1977: Brian Maxwell (CAN) • 1979: Kirk Pfeffer (USA) • 1981: Cor Vriend (NED) • 1983: Kevin Forster (GBR) • 1985: Zoltan Köszegi (HUN) • 1987 – 1989: Marti ten Kate (NED) • 1991: Sergey Prorokov (URS) • 1992: Willie Mtolo (RSA) • 1993: Jan Tau (RSA) • 1994: Piotr Poblocki (POL) • 1995: Viktor Goural (UKR) • 1996: John Mandu (KEN) • 1997: Dmitriy Kapitonov (RUS) • 1998: Hussein Ahmed Salah (DJI) • 1999: Anatoli Zerouk (UKR) • 2000: Cancelled • 2001: El Mustapha Riad (MAR) • 2002: Raymond Kipkoech (KEN) • 2003: Wilson Kibet (KEN) • 2004: Girma Tolla (ETH) • 2005: John Kelai (KEN) • 2006: Sammy Rotich (KEN) • 2007: Thomson Cherognoy (KEN) • 2008: Silas Toek (KEN); • 2009: Jacob Kipchumba Yator (KEN)

Sporting positions
Preceded by Pavel Kantorek	Košice Men's Marathon Winner 1965	Succeeded by Gyula Tóth

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