Leen Jansen

Who was Leen Jansen?

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

After the Summer Olympics Jansen became a professional. He boxed a total number of 71 matches, of which he won sixty fights. 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 January 27, 2014, Jansen died in the hospital of Bergen op Zoom at the age of 83.