Jan van Ispelen (born 12 April 1941 in

Schönebeck Schönebeck (), officially Schönebeck (Elbe), is a town in the district of Salzlandkreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, approx. southeast of Magdeburg. For much of the twentieth century it was noted ...

) is a retired

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, who was born in Germany but competed for the Netherlands. He represented Holland at the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...

, where he was defeated in the second round of the men's middleweight (– 75 kg) division by Yugoslavia's

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1968 Olympic results

Below are the results of Jan van Ispelen, a middleweight boxer who competed for the Netherlands in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics: * Round of 32: defeated Misael Vilugron (Chile) by a second-round technical knockout * Round of 16: lost to

(Yugoslavia) by decision, 1-4

References

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Dutch Olympic Committee
1941 births Living people Olympic boxers for the Netherlands Boxers at the 1968 Summer Olympics People from Schönebeck Middleweight boxers Dutch male boxers {{Netherlands-boxing-bio-stub