Hugo Camps

Hugo Camps (12 May 1943 – 29 October 2022) was a Belgian journalist, columnist and writer. 

Camps has published in both Belgian and Dutch magazines and wrote several books in particular about football and cycling. He worked for over thirty-five years for Elsevier Weekblad , for which he wrote a weekly interview and a column about sports until his death.

Camps died in Knokke on 29 October 2022, aged 79.

Awards and prizes
 1988 - he became Knight in the Order of Leopold II.
 2007 - Bronze Medal of the .
 2 March 2016 - he became Knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau. This was as a celebation of this 30th anniversary with Elsevier Weekblad. That day, in the presence of among others, the former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, he was awarded this order by the Dutch ambassador to Belgium, Maryem van den Heuvel, during her residence in Brussels.Hugo Camps benoemd tot Ridder in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau, ewmagazine.nl, 2 March 2016

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Category:Belgian journalists
Category:Columnists
Category:Belgian writers
Category:1943 births
Category:2022 deaths
Category:People from Flemish Brabant