Rolf Jacobsen (25 January 1899 – 15 May 1960) was a
Norwegian boxer Boxer most commonly refers to:
*Boxer (boxing), a competitor in the sport of boxing
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Animal kingdom
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who competed in the
1920 Summer Olympics
The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (; ; ) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (; Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German: ''Antwerpen 1920''), were an international multi-sport event held i ...
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He was born in
Kristiania
Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022, an ...
. In 1920 he was eliminated in the second round of the
middleweight class after losing his fight to
Samuel Lagonia
Samuel Joseph Lagonia (April 19, 1898 – November 15, 1968) was an American boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was born in Westchester, New York and died in Flushing, New York
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.
References
External links
List of Norwegian boxers
1899 births
1960 deaths
Middleweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Norway
Boxers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
Norwegian male boxers
Boxers from Oslo
20th-century Norwegian sportsmen
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