Michael Michaelsen

{{short description|Danish boxer}}

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{{MedalSport | Men's Boxing}}

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{{MedalBronze| 1928 Amsterdam | Heavyweight}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Amateur Championships}}

{{MedalBronze| 1927 Berlin | Heavyweight}}

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Michael Jacob Michaelsen (April 11, 1899 in Sundbyerne, Amager, Denmark – August 13, 1970 in Frederiksberg, Denmark) was a Danish boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was Jewish.{{cite book |title=Jews and the Olympic Games: The Clash Between Sport and Politics : with a Complete Review of Jewish Olympic Medallists |publisher=Sussex Academic Press |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul |year=2004 |isbn=9781903900871 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGcPDXOjxMoC&q=%22Jews+and+the+Olympic+Games%22+michaelsen&pg=PA236}}

In 1928 he won the bronze medal in the heavyweight class after winning the third-place fight against Sverre Sørsdal.

He participated in the 1927 European Amateur Boxing Championships winning the third place and again in the 1930 European Amateur Boxing Championships where Michaelsen became European champion defeating Sweden's Bertil Molander in the final.