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".