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Leif Hansen (boxer)

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Name
  
Leif Hansen


Role
  
Boxer

Died
  
November 6, 2004, Oslo, Norway

Leif Håkon "Baggis" Hansen (8 February 1928 – 6 November 2004) was a Norwegian boxer who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

He was born and died in Oslo, and represented the sports club SK av 1909. He finished seventeenth in the light-welterweight division in the boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He took five Norwegian national titles (in both lightweight, light-welterweight and welterweight) between 1951 and 1955.

Hansen later had a career in professional boxing between 1956 and 1964. He entered ten matches, and won five.

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Leif Hansen (boxer) Wikipedia