Jovan Bowles

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Jovan Bowles
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Personal information
Full name	Jovan Jacques Bowles
Date of birth	June 27 1983 ( 1983-06-27) (age 24)
Place of birth	Durban , South Africa
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	97 kg (210 lb)
Nickname	Jovs aka Hammerman
School	St Henry's Marist Brothers' College
Occupation(s)	Professional rugby union footballer
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Outside centre
Provincial/State sides		Caps	(points)
2006	Medicover Falcons (rugby team)	?	(?)

National team(s)
2006	South Africa Sevens	7

Jovan Jacques Bowles (born 27 June 1983 in Durban, South Africa) was the captain of the South African Emerging Sevens rugby union team and has won the Tusker Sevens tournament in Kenya for the last two years. He plays the position of centre. He is the brother of Maso Bowles who played for the Springbok under 21 side in the 2000 u/21 SANZAR series in which John Smit captained the side to victory in the series.

Bowles attended St Henry's Marist Brothers' College where he was head boy in 2000 and played in the first rugby team from 1998 to 2000.^{[citation needed]}

Bowles played his first Springbok Sevens game in 2006 at the age of 23, it was in Dubai where the Springbok Sevens team went on to win that leg of the IRB Sevens World Series.