Flip Keegstra Explained

Flip Keegstra
Fullname:	Philippus Harco Keegstra
Nationality:	Dutch
Birth Date:	14 June 1914
Birth Place:	Amsterdam
Death Place:	Amsterdam
Classes:	Swallow 5.5 Metre
Show-Medals:	yes
Updated:	2014-01-04

Philippus Harco "Flip" Keegstra (20 June 1914, Amsterdam – 9 May 1991, Amsterdam) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country as at the 1948 Summer Olympics in Torbay. Keegstra, as crew member on the Dutch Swallow St. Margrite, took the 11th place with helmsman Wim de Vries Lentsch. In 1952 Keegstra returns to the Olympics, Helsinki, in the 5.5 Metre De Ruyter. With Helmsman Wim de Vries Lentsch and fellow crew member Piet Jan van der Giessen they took the 13th place.

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• Web site: Flip Keegstra Bio, Stats, and Results . Sports-Reference.com . Olympic Sports . 2014-01-08 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140104204459/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ke/flip-keegstra-1.html . 2014-01-04 .
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• Web site: The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad London 1948 . 1951 . PDF . 2014-01-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716035822/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1948/OR1948.pdf . 2011-07-16 .
• Web site: OLYMPISCHE ZEILPLOEG . De vrije pers : ochtendbulletin . 1952-06-20 . Morning . 2014-01-26.
• Web site: The Officiel Report of the Organizing Committee for the games of the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080411091045/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1952/OR1952.pdf . dead . 2008-04-11 . 1955 . pdf . 2014-01-26 .