Background
He was born and died in Oslo, and represented the sports club Saskatchewan av 1909.
He was born and died in Oslo, and represented the sports club Saskatchewan av 1909.
He finished seventeenth in the light-welterweight division in the boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He took five Norwegian national titles (in both lightweight, light-welterweight and welterweight) between 1951 and 1955. Hansen later had a career in professional boxing between 1956 and 1964.