List of Jews in sports

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This list includes Jews who have had outstanding achievements in sports. The criteria is: a) 1-3 places winners at major international tournaments; b) for team sports, winning in preliminary competitions of finals at major international tournaments, or playing for several seasons for clubs of major national leagues; or c) owners of world records.

Bolding denotes current competitor.

See also: List of Jewish American sportspeople

Contents

[edit] Commissioners, managers, and owners

[edit] Sportscasters & promoters

[edit] Sportsmen

[edit] Artistic gymnastics

  • Ágnes Keleti, Hungary, Olympic champion (5 times)
  • Tad laferrierere
  • Matt Sherman

[edit] Baseball

[edit] Basketball

[edit] Boxing

[edit] Canoeing

[edit] Chess

[edit] Cricket

[edit] Fencing

[edit] Field Hockey

[edit] Figure skating

[edit] Football (American)

[edit] Football (Australian)

[edit] Football (soccer)

[edit] Golf

[edit] Gymnastics

[edit] Hockey

[edit] Judo

[edit] Mixed martial arts

  • Rory Singer, fighter from The Ultimate Fighter 3[32]
  • Adam Brozer, US Olympic Karate Team Member
  • Jeffrey Kohn, US Olympic Karate Coach

[edit] Motorsport

[edit] Rugby (league and union)

  • David Emanuel, Australian Rugby Union player
  • Okie Geffen, South African Rugby Union player
  • Andrew Grunstein, NSW Rugby Union player
  • Alan Menter,South African Rugby Union Player
  • Sydney Nomis, South African Rugby Union player
  • Albert Rosenfeld, Australian rugby league player
  • Ian Rubin, Australian rugby league player
  • Joel Stransky, South African rugby union player
  • Eoin Mullany, Irish International Superjew

[edit] Sailing

[edit] Speed Skating

  • Irving Jaffee. U.S. Speed Skater, Olympic champion
  • Grach, Rafael, USSR Speed Skater, 2 Olympic medals.

[edit] Swimming

[edit] Table tennis

[edit] Tennis

[edit] Track and field

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Water Polo

[edit] Weightlifting

[edit] Wrestling

[edit] Professional wrestling

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, January 19, 2007 p.45
  2. ^ Historical View
  3. ^ Hart, Cecil "Cece" : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum
  4. ^ a b c d e f Dresner, Stacey. "Conversation with Manny Leibert", Connecticut Jewish Ledger, 2006-11-17, p. 2. Retrieved on 2006-11-17. (English) 
  5. ^ Jews in the NFL
  6. ^ Pleat, David : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum
  7. ^ Wilf - [1] "The team’s owner, Zygi Wilf, an Orthodox Jew ..."
  8. ^ Blomberg - [2] "Ron Blomberg... Big, hulking Jewish kid from Atlanta."
  9. ^ The Official Site of The Milwaukee Brewers: Team: Player Information
  10. ^ Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver, Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports, Bloch Publishing Co., 1965
  11. ^ j. - Celebrity Jews
  12. ^ [3] "Jewish shooting star aims to make his mark in NBA... Bluthenthal’s late mother was Jewish and his father is black — the family name Bluthenthal originated with a slave owner David Bluthenthal believes was German-Jewish."
  13. ^ [4] "Bruin fans call him the Jewish Jordan...He's a real, live Jewish kid from the heart of Los Angeles, whose step-father is Israeli and has visited Israel twice" [5]
  14. ^ Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, January 19, 2007 p.45
  15. ^ [6]
  16. ^ [7] "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for... Ice skater Sasha Cohen" [8] [9]
  17. ^ Galler-Rabinowitz - [10]
  18. ^ [11] "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for in Turin... Melissa Gregory" [12] "Gregory is the daughter of a Jewish mother and a non-practicing Catholic father. She now lives in Connecticut to train and Gregory recently spoke to the Connecticut Jewish Ledger about her religious background: "We [my brother and I] were brought up with the feeling that you have to believe in G-d. You have to believe in right and wrong. The rest they kind of left up to us. We celebrated everything-Christmas, Hanukkah, all the Jewish holidays, Easter. They taught us both traditions. Then when we got older they said whatever we chose and whatever we wanted was good with them. I identify that my heritage is Jewish. I feel proud of it.""
  19. ^ [13] "Emily Hughes — whose sister Sarah won the 2002 Olympic gold medal in women's figure skating — also is Jewish."
  20. ^ [14] "16-year-old Sarah Hughes has a Jewish mother, Amy Hughes née Pasternack, and reportedly grew up in a house with some attachment to Judaism. But odds are you didn't read about it in your local Jewish paper."]
  21. ^ [15] "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for in Turin! Ice dancer Jamie Silverstein"
  22. ^ Bornstein – named as on "Jewish Sports Review Men's All-America First-Team" at [16]; [17] ""It was amazing. It was great. I loved it. It made me realize how fulfilling and enriched Jewish culture really is", Bornstein said. "So in the past couple years, I've felt more Jewish than ever." His father is Jewish and his mother is a non-Jew from Mexico. Grew up celebrating Passover and Rosh Hashanah with relatives. Did not have a bar mitzvah, and doesn't consider himself observant. The Maccabiah experience was a way for him to connect with Judaism."
  23. ^ Feilhaber - [18] "Outside of my UCLA teammate Benny Feilhaber, I never really thought there were other high-class Jewish soccer players out there"
  24. ^ Tvrtko reveals: My grandmother was Jewish - Goes on to say that it was on his mother's side making him Jewish according to halakha
  25. ^ ?
  26. ^ [19] de Ridder - "he netted a Ajax's only goal in the Champions League game at Maccabi Tel Aviv, which Ajax lost in dramatic fashion. That fixture was a special one for De Ridder, who is Jewish and has an Israeli mother."
  27. ^ Name: RUDI BALL
  28. ^ [20]"Jewish skaters vie for spots in the NHL"
  29. ^ Labovitch, Max : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum
  30. ^ [21] "Nystrom is the highest Jewish draft pick in NHL draft history"
  31. ^ [22]: "Jewish skaters vie for spots in the NHL"
  32. ^ {http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=2792&pid=455}
  33. ^ The Sunday Telegraph (London); 20/03/05; Nicholas Bagnall; p.12
  34. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Sheila's upbringing in an all-girl Jewish family generated no interest in motoring beyond her training as a Women's Auxiliary Air Force driver."
  35. ^ "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
  36. ^ Spitz - [23] "Spitz became the first Jewish recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award..."
  37. ^ [24] ""He knows he's Jewish and the values are there with him", said Clark Goldstein, Paul's father."
  38. ^ [25], sprinter, Olympic champion
  39. ^ Uc_Hilal : Jews In Sports @ Virtual Museum
  40. ^ The Jewish Chronicle
  41. ^ Floridian: A wrestling dynasty
  42. ^ Floridian: A wrestling dynasty
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