The Order of Merit of the Belgian Olympic and Interfederal Committee, which rewards each year a person who has made an exceptional contribution to the Olympic Movement in our country, was awarded to Roger Vanmeerbeek, aged 88. The COIB had made and announced its choice on June 8 during its general assembly.
Roger Vanmeerbeek, brilliant in athletics, orienteering and badminton where he was crowned Belgian champion several times, had a career in the army. He became an aviation colonel.
He joined the Belgian Olympic movement in 1965. Roger Vanmeerbeek was a member of the COIB Board of Directors from 1977 to 2004.
Vanmeerbeek was chef de mission three times at the Winter Olympic Games in Albertville in 1992, Lillehammer in 1994 and Sydney in 2000. He is the father of golf coach Michel Vanmeerbeek.
The list of winners of the COIB Order of Merit:
2013 : Eddy Merckx
2014: Patrick Sercu as Gaston Roelants
2015: Robert Van de Walle
2016: Ingrid Berghmans
2017: Hanna Mariën
2018: Guido De Bondt
2019: Roger Moens
2020: Anne d’Ieteren
2021: Kim Gevaert
2022 : Roger Lespagnard
2023: Roger Vanmeerbeek
2023-12-10 18:51:27
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