Sport & Note

Jorma Limmonen

Male, Amateur

(Jorma Johannes Limmonen)
Featherweight, Finland, Helsinki
Born: 29 September 1934, Helsinki, Finland
Died: 27 November 2012, Helsinki, Finland
Height: 5ft 6in, mt 1,67
Weight: 51, 54 and 57 kg
Stance: Orthodox

Limmonen won 10 Finnish titles from 1953 to 1964
Limmonen won titles in three different categories:
1953, 1954 and 1955 in flyweight,
1957 and 1958 in bantamweight,
1959, 1960, 1962, 1963 and 1964 in featherweight
1960 Roma, Italy, Olympic Games featherweight bronze medal
1964 Tokyo, Japan, Olympic Games featherweight

Limmonen was inducted into the Finnish Boxing Hall of Fame in 2006

Amateur results

Date	Opponent	Place	Result
1957
Prague, Czechoslovakia, European Championships Preliminaries, 54 kg
- May 26	Oleg Grigoryev	Prague, Czechoslovakia	LPTS 3:0
1958-1959 No activity recorded
1960
Roma, Italy, Olympic Games bronze medal, 57 kg
+ Aug. 26	Borge Krogh	Roma, Italy	WPTS 5:0
+ Aug. 31	Phil Lundgren	Roma, Italy	WPTS 3:2
+ Sept. 2	Abel Bekker (RHO)	Roma, Italy	WPTS 3:2
- Sept. 3	Francesco Musso	Roma, Italy	LPTS 5:0
1961-1963 No activity recorded
1964
Tokyo, Japan, Olympic Games Preliminaries, 57 kg
+ Oct. 13	Johannes De Rooij (HOL)	Tokyo, Japan	WKO 1
- Oct. 17	Constantin Crudu (ROM)	Tokyo, Japan	LPTS 3:2

No professional record

Summary

Total bouts: 0, Won: 0 (0 inside the limit), Lost: 0 (0 inside the limit), Draw: 0, NC: 0