Wednesday, February 27, 2013

The Top 10 Jewish Summer Olympians

  1. Marc Spitz: Considered by many to be the greatest swimmer of all-time. He won seven gold medals during the 1972 Olympics, and four medals during the previous 1968 Olympics. 
  2. Dara Torres: Only swimmer in Olympic history to medal in five Olympiads. 
  3. Maria Gorochovskaya: She won seven medals for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Olympics as a gymnast, the most medals ever won by a woman in a single Olympics game.
  4. Mitch Gaylord: Won four gymnastics medals during the 1984 Olympics: a gold in team, a silver in vaulting, and a bronze in rings and parallel bars. 
  5. Lenny Krayzelburg: Four-time Olympic swimming gold medalist in 2000 and 2004. 
  6. Kerri Strug: Her performance during the 1996 Olympics helped the United States win its first team gold medal in gymnastics. 
  7. Jason Lezak: Winner of four Olympic gold medals in swimming in the 2000, 2004, and 2008 games. 
  8. Agnes Keleti: Hungarian gymnast who won 10 Olympic medals in the 1952 and 1956 Olympiads, at the age of 31 and 35 respectively. 
  9. Alfred and Gustav Flatow: German gymnastics gold medalist cousins in the first Olympics of the modern games in 1896. First Jews to win Olympic medals. 
  10. Gal Fridman: Won the gold medal for windsurfing in 2004 (first gold medal for Israel in the Olympics.) 
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