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This list of Jewish athletes in sports contains athletes who are ... Olympic gold and silver, 2000 & 2002 USA Hockey Women's Player of the Year Award [346 ...
9 Ice hockey. 10 Motor sports. 11 Power sports. 12 Rugby union. 13 Skating. 14 Soccer (association football) ... List of Jews in sports (non-players) List of Jewish ...
The topic of Jewish participation in sports is discussed extensively in academic and popular literature. Scholars believe that sports have been a historical avenue for Jewish people to overcome obstacles toward their participation in secular society, especially before the mid-20th century in Europe and the United States. [1]
Jewish American players of American football ... List of Jewish American sportspeople * ... (ice hockey, born 1985) Aimee Buchanan;
Jewish tennis players (2 C, 90 P) V. Jewish volleyball players (1 C, 20 P) W. ... Pages in category "Jewish sportspeople" The following 6 pages are in this category ...
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 identified as Jewish. If the player has converted to another religion before their Olympic achievements, they should not be listed.
Veisor was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is Jewish. [4] As a youth, he played in the 1963 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Toronto. [5] He was drafted in Round 3 (#45 overall) in the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft. [2] He started his National Hockey League career with the Chicago Black Hawks in ...
Henrich is the first Jewish player to be selected in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft, [1] and the only player taken in the first round of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft who did not play a regular season game in the National Hockey League. [2] Henrich's younger brother Adam Henrich was also a former professional hockey player for the Coventry ...