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Club
  
CPB Brussels


Name
  
Philippe Volckxsom

Philippe Van Volckxsom

Died
  
24 December 1938 (aged 40–41)

Sport
  
Speed skating, ice hockey, rowing

Personal best(s)
  
500 m – 56.4 (1924) 1500 m – 3:14.6 (1924)

Philippe Van Volckxsom (May 1898 – 24 December 1938) was a Belgian athlete who competed at the 1920 and 1928 Summer Olympics and at the first Winter Olympics in 1924. He finished fifth and seventh with the Belgian ice hockey team in 1920 and 1924, respectively, and in 1924 he also took part in speed skating events. In 1928 he competed in rowing, together with the fellow ice hockey player Carlos Van den Driessche, but failed to reach the final of the coxless pairs event.

References

Philippe Van Volckxsom Wikipedia