Leen Jansen

Leonardus Eustachius Jansen was a boxer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the Boxing at the [1952 Summer Olympics|1952 Summer Olympics] in Helsinki, Finland. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the men's Middleweight division by eventual winner Floyd Patterson 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:

After the Summer Olympics Jansen became a professional. He boxed a total 71 matches, of which he won 60. His last fight was on 2 October 1967 in his home town of Rotterdam, where he was defeated on points by Johnny Halafihi of Tonga.
Since 1980 he lived in Sint-Maartensdijk with his daughter and dog. There he taught boxing through his 80s. On 27 January 2014, Jansen died in the hospital of Bergen op Zoom at the age of 83.