Leonardus ("Leen") Eustachius Jansen (3 August 1930 – 27 January 2014) was a

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from the

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, who competed for his native country at the

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. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the men's Middleweight (−75 kg) division by eventual winner

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of the United States.

1952 Olympic results

Below are the results of Leen Jansen of the Netherlands who competed as a middleweight at the 1952 Olympic boxing tournament in Helsinki: * Round of 32: bye * Round of 16: defeated Robert Malouf (Canada) by technical knockout in the first round * Quarterfinal: lost to Floyd Patterson (United States) by knockout in the first round After the Summer Olympics Jansen became a professional. He boxed a total 71 matches, of which he won 60 (27 KOs). His last fight was on 2 October 1967 in his home town of Rotterdam, where he was defeated on points by Johnny Halafihi of

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. Since 1980 he lived in

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with his daughter and dog. There he taught boxing through his 80s. On 27 January 2014, Jansen died in the hospital of

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at the age of 83.

References

1930 births 2014 deaths Middleweight boxers Olympic boxers for the Netherlands Boxers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Boxers from Rotterdam Dutch male boxers 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-boxing-bio-stub