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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; c) owners of world records; and d) for sportsmen who do not pass this criteria but are still active, we recommend using section "Champion Hope" for each sport. We are working on the changes now.

See also: List of Jewish American sportspeople.

Commissioners, managers, and owners

Sportscasters & promoters

Sportsmen

Baseball

Basketball

Boxing

Chess

Cricket

Fencing

Figure skating

  • Sarah Abitbol, French figure skater, World Figure Skating Championship bronze 2000
  • Benjamin Agosto, U.S. ice dancer (Jewish mother), Olympic silver 2006, World Figure Skating Championship silver 2005, bronze 2006
  • Ilya Averbukh, Russian ice dancer, Olympic silver 2002
  • Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater, (Jewish father and grandmother), Olympic gold 1994, World Figure Skating Championship gold 1993
  • Judy Blumberg, U.S. ice dancer, World Figure Skating Championship bronze 1983-85
  • Alain Calmat, French figure skater, Olympic silver 1964, World Figure Scating Championship gold 1965, silver 1963, bronze 1961, 1962
  • Galit Chait, Israeli ice dancer, World Figure Skating Championship, bronze 2002
  • Sasha Cohen, figure skater, the reigning U.S. National Champion and silver medalist at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy
  • Loren Galler-Rabinowitz, American figure skater, competes with partner David Mitchell; won the bronze medal at the 2004 U.S. Figure Skating Championships
  • Aleksandr Gorelik, Soviet figure skater, Olympic silver 1968, World Figure Skating Championship silver 1966, 1968, bronze 1965
  • Melissa Gregory, figure skater, currently competes in ice dance with Denis Petukhov
  • Timothy Steed, British ice dancer, Olympic silver 1998
  • Emily Hughes, American figure skater
  • Sarah Hughes, U.S. figure skater, Olympic gold 2002, World Figure Skating Championship bronze 2001
  • Gennadi Karponossov, Russian ice dancer, coach Olympic gold 1980, World Figure Skating Championship gold 1978, 1979, silver 1980, bronze 1974, 1977
  • Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater, World Figure Skating Championship gold 1908-1911, bronze 1906-07
  • Irina Rodnina, Soviet figure skater, Olympic gold 1972, 1976, 1980, World Figure Skating Championship 1969-78
  • Luis Rubenstein, Canadian figure skater, (pre-Olympic) World Figure Skating Championship gold 1891
  • Sergei Sakhnovsky, Israeli ice dancer, World Figure Skating Championship bronze 2002
  • Jamie Silverstein, American figure skater, competed in ice dance with Ryan O'Meara, together capturing the Bronze medal at the 2006 United States Figure Skating Championships, also competed in the 2006 Winter Olympics
  • Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater, Olympic silver 2002, bronze 2006, World Figure Skating Championship gold 2004,2005, silver 1998, 2000, 2001, bronze 1996
  • Maxim Staviski, Bulgarian ice dancer, World Figure Skating Championship gold 2006, silver 2004, bronze 2003

Football (American)

Football (Soccer)

Golf

Gymnastics

Hockey

Judo

Mixed Martial Arts

Motorsport

Rugby (league and union)

Sailing

Swimming

  • Anthony Erwin, US swimmer, Olympic champion
  • Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer, Olympic champion
  • Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-born U.S. swimmer, Olympic champion
  • Mark Spitz (1972 - ) Olympic swimmer (9g1s1b), holds the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games (seven), set at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany
  • Dara Torres, U.S. swimmer (Jewish father), Olympic champion
  • Alfred Nakache, French swimmer

Tennis

Track and field

Weightlifting

Professional Wrestling

References

Footnotes

  1. Wilf - "The team’s owner, Zygi Wilf, an Orthodox Jew..."
  2. Blomberg - "Ron Blomberg... Big, hulking Jewish kid from Atlanta."
  3. Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Jan. 19, 2007 p.45
  4. "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."
  5. "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"
  6. ^ Dresner, Stacey (2006-11-17). "Conversation with Manny Leibert". Connecticut Jewish Ledger. p. 2. Retrieved 2006-11-17. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  7. "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for... Ice skater Sasha Cohen"
  8. Galler-Rabinowitz -
  9. "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for in Turin... Melissa Gregory" "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 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.""
  10. "Emily Hughes—whose sister Sarah won the 2002 Olympic gold medal in women's figureskating—also is Jewish."
  11. "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."]
  12. "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for in Turin! Ice dancer Jamie Silverstein"
  13. Bornstein - named as on "Jewish Sports Review Men's All-America First-Team" at ; ""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. Bornstein grew up celebrating Passover and Rosh Hashanah with relatives. He did not have a bar mitzvah, and he doesn't consider himself observant. The Maccabiah experience was a way for him to connect with Judaism."
  14. Feilhaber - "Outside of my UCLA teammate Benny Feilhaber, I never really thought there were other high-class Jewish soccer players out there"
  15. Tvrtko reveals: My grandmother was Jewish - Goes on to say that it was on his mother's side making him Jewish according to halakha
  16. 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."
  17. "Hart, Cecil "Cece" - Jews in Sports"
  18. "Nystrom is the highest Jewish draft pick in NHL draft history"
  19. "Jewish skaters vie for spots in the NHL"
  20. "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
  21. Spitz - "Spitz became the first Jewish recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award..."
  22. ""He knows he's Jewish and the values are there with him," said Clark Goldstein, Paul's father."
  23. "Not too many people know that I am Jewish", Pete Sampras told the JC this week. ... Sampras added that he had never been to Synagogue.' Jewish Chronicle, June 18 1999, p.1.
  24. PWTorch wrestling site Lanny Poffo "says his father Angelo is doing well, then goes on to read a poem he wrote for his parents anniversary. It is revealed in the poem that Lanny and Randy's mother was Jewish" Accessed 30 Oct 2006.
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