Ted Zegwaard
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Nicolaas Leonard "Ted" Zegwaard (born October 15, 1903, date of death unknown) was a Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 boxer
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics
1920 Summer Olympics
The 1920 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium....

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He was born in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
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In 1920 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the flyweight class
Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics - Men's flyweight
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. In the first round he won his fight against Frederic Virtue
Frederic Virtue
Frederic Walter Virtue was a British boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was born in Bermondsey and died in Southwark....

 but he lost his next bout to the upcoming bronze medalist William Cuthbertson
William Cuthbertson
William Cuthbertson was a British flyweight boxer who competed in the 1920s.He won the bronze medal in Boxing at the 1920 Summer Olympics losing against Danish boxer Anders Petersen in the semi-finals....

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After the Olympic games Zegwaard became professional. In the 1920s he moved to Australia
Australia
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. He returned for a few years to the Netherlands but in 1937 again left for Australia. Not able to obtain permanent residence or citizenship, he eventually moved to South Africa
South Africa
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. In his later career he also went by the name "Jan van Houten".
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