Leif Gøran Jenssen (born 19 March 1948) is a former Norwegian

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. He became Olympic Champion in

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

in the

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class.Profile: "Leif Jenssen"
- ''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 26 December 2007)
- (Retrieved on 26 December 2007) He obtained silver medal three times in the World Championships, in 1970s,

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

and 1974. Jenssen was elected Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year 1971. Until January 1973 use of

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s was not prohibited. Jenssen has been open about his use of steroids until the ban, including during the 1972 Olympics. He started using

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prescribed by his general practitioner in 1970. He stated that he has no bad conscience about the use, as he estimates that 49 of 50 of the world's best weightlifters used steroids at the time. He regards it as impossible to have won the Olympic medal without use of the performance-enhancing drugs, but has stated that he believes that if no-one had used them, including himself, he would still have won.

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