Sixten Jansson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Sixten Jansson

Swedish canoeist

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1913

Date of Death: 08-Dec-2006

Profession: canoeist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Sixten Jansson (January 12, 1913 – December 8, 2006) was a Swedish canoeist who competed in the late 1930s. He finished second originally in the K-2 1000 m final at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but was disqualified for bumping into the German boat of Ewald Tilker and Fritz Bondroit.