Oudenaarde (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Oudenaarde celebrated COS Rope Skippers’ World Championship success, winning 1 gold, 2 silver, 4 bronze medals, setting a Double Dutch world record, led by chairman Shana De Jaeger. As VRT News reported, Oudenaarde, in the province of East Flanders, Belgium, honoured its COS Rope Skippers after their success at the World Championships in Japan. What did Oudenaarde do to celebrate COS Rope Skippers? After the parade, the rope skippers gave a live demonstration in Market Square. COS Rope Skippers vzw, founded in 1994 by Anne Van Cauwenberghe as the Recrean Skippers in Oudenaarde, has grown into one of Belgium’s largest rope skipping clubs.