Birth Date: | 29 September 1934 |
Birth Place: | Helsinki, Finland |
Death Date: | 27 November 2012 (aged 76) |
Death Place: | Helsinki, Finland |
Height: | 168 cm |
Weight: | 52–60 kg |
Sport: | Boxing |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Jorma Johannes Limmonen (29 September 1934 – 27 November 2012) was a Finnish boxer who competed in the featherweight division in the 1960 and 1964 Olympics. He won a bronze medal in 1960, losing in a semifinal to the eventual champion Francesco Musso, and was eliminated in the second bout in 1964.
Limmonen won ten consecutive national titles in 1953–64, which remains a national record. He retired in 1964 and later worked as a boxing coach and a sports journalist. In 2006 he was inducted into the Finnish Boxing Hall of Fame.
Jorma Limmonen competed as a featherweight in the 1964 Olympic boxing tournament in Tokyo. Here are his results from that event: