Philippe Charles Bovy (born 8 May 1902) was a Belgian

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and Olympian. He competed in the 1920 Olympic Summer Games in

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. In the Men's featherweight tournament, he was awarded a bye in the Round of 32, defeated

Wim Hesterman Willem "Wim" Hesterman (26 November 1897, in Amsterdam – 2 December 1971, in Amstelveen) was a Dutch boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (; ; ) and ...

in the Round of 16, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Jean Gachet of France. Bovy was born in

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on 8 May 1902.

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1902 births Olympic boxers for Belgium Boxers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Year of death missing Belgian male boxers Featherweight boxers 20th-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-boxing-bio-stub