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Since the inception of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, Jewish athletes have taken part in both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. The following is a list of Jewish athletes who have won an Olympic medal in the modern games. Under the criteria of this list, Olympic medalists must have or had at least one Jewish parent and must have ...
Scott Goldblatt, US Olympic champion (4X200 freestyle relay), silver (800 m. freestyle relay) Lenny Krayzelburg, Four time Olympic champion [239] Dan Kutler, US-born Israeli [240] Jason Lezak, Olympic swimmer (4g1s2b) [241] [242] Marilyn Ramenofsky, US Olympic silver (400-meter freestyle) Keena Rothhammer, Olympic swimmer (1g1b) [55]
Israel has competed at the Olympic Games as a nation since 1952. Its National Olympic Committee was formed in 1933, during the British Mandate of Palestine. [1] Israel has sent a team to each Summer Olympic Games since 1952 (except when it participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics), and to each Winter Olympic Games since 1994.
Olympic Games: Tokyo, Japan [27] 5 km (road) 15:15+ Lonah Chemtai Salpeter: 15 February 2019 Or Yehuda, Israel 10,000 m: 30:46.37 Lonah Chemtai Salpeter: 15 August 2022 European Championships: Munich, Germany [28] 10 km (road) 30:05 Mx: Lonah Chemtai Salpeter: 1 September 2019 Tilburg 10 Miles Tilburg, Netherlands [29] 15 km (road) 47:28+ Lonah ...
Israel competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. This was the nation's 18th appearance at the Summer Olympics. Since Israel's debut in 1952, Israeli athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, other than the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which it opted not to attend in accordance with the US-led boycott.
This list of Jewish athletes in sports contains athletes who are Jewish and have attained outstanding achievements in sports. The topic of Jewish participation in sports is discussed extensively in academic and popular literature. Sports have been a historical avenue for Jewish people to overcome obstacles toward their participation in secular ...
Several Israeli athletes advanced to the finals of their respective sporting events, but narrowly missed out on standing on the winner's podium. [1] Originally scheduled to take place in the summer of 2020, the Games were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic until 23 July to 8 August 2021. [3]
Israeli stamp of 1976 Olympic Games. Israel sent to the Olympics a football team, that qualified for the second time, and 11 individual athletes, the same number as the victims in Munich massacre four years earlier. All seven sports represented at the 1972 Olympics were retained for 1976: Athletics, swimming, shooting, fencing, wrestling ...