Friday, March 1, 2013

The Top 10 Jewish Winter Olympians - The Frozen Chosen

  1. Irving Jaffee: American 5,000 and 10,000 meter speed skating gold medalist in the 1932 Olympics. First Jew to win a medal in the Winter Olympics. 
  2. Sarah Hughes: American 2002 Olympic gold medalist in Ladies’ Single figure skating. 
  3. Oksana Baiul: Ukrainian Ladies’ Singles figure skating gold medalist in the 1994 Olympics. Unaware she was Jewish until 2003. 
  4. Sacha Cohen: American 2006 silver medalist in Ladies’ Singles figure skating. 
  5. Victor Zinger: Gold medalist as part of the 1968 Soviet Union ice hockey team (goal tender). 
  6. Irina Slutskaya: Russian silver medalist in the 2002 Olympics, and bronze medalist in the 2006 Olympics, both in Ladies’ Singles figure skating. 
  7. Sarah DeCosta Hays: American gold medalist in 1998 and silver medalist in 2002 for the women’s ice hockey team. 
  8. Gennadi Karponosov and Natalya Linichuk: 1980 Soviet Union gold medalists in Pairs Ice Dancing. 
  9. Ilia Averbukh and Irina Lobacheva: 2002 Russian silver medalists in Pairs Ice Dancing. 
  10. Alain Calmat: 1964 French silver medalist in Men’s Singles figure skating.
There is no book just about Jewish winter olympians, here is a book on Jewish sports heros.

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