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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 ...
Gerry Ashworth, world record holder in 100 yards, 100 meters; 1964 Olympic track athlete-gold medal [81] Louis Clarke, Olympic gold medal, 4X100-meter relay [81] Lillian Copeland, world records (javelin, discus throw, and shot put); Olympic champion & silver {discus} Daniel Frank, long jump, Olympic silver medal [81]
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.
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.
Adam Jeremy "A. J." Edelman OLY (Hebrew: אדם ג'רמי אדלמן; born March 14, 1991) is an American-born Israeli sliding sports athlete. He is an eight-time Israeli National Champion in sliding sport (skeleton and Bobsleigh) [1] who competed for Israel at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. [2]
Athlete Date Meet Place Ref. 60 y: 6.41 Tal Mor: 4 February 2006 Lubbock, United States 60 m: 6.68 Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy: 21 February 1999 Samara, Russia 6.68 Attila Farkas: 26 January 2002 Budapest, Hungary 200 m: 20.69 Blessing Afrifah: 10 February 2024 Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais: Liévin, France [57] 300 y: 31.8 h: Manny ...
Salpenter represented Israel at the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. As of November 2022, she held six Israeli national records, over distances ranging from 3000 metres to the marathon. Salpeter represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Women's marathon on 11 August 2024, and finished 9th.
Judo is one of the five sports in which Israeli athletes have won Olympic medals. It is the most successful Israeli sport at the Olympics providing five of the nine Olympic medals Israel has won. In 2013, Yarden Gerbi won a gold medal at the Judo World Championships, and in 2016 she won a bronze medal at the Olympics. [80]