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1993 Maccabiah Games

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14th Maccabiah
Host cityTel Aviv,Israel
Nations48
Debuting countries Belarus
 Croatia
 Georgia
 Portugal
 Samoa
 Ukraine
Athletes5,100
Opened byYael Arad
Main venueRamat Gan Stadium

The14thMaccabiah Games brought 5,100 athletes toIsrael from 48 nations.

Jewish athletes fromPoland,Bulgaria, andCzechoslovakia participated for the first time afterWorld War II, afterthe fall of the Iron Curtain. Athletes from eight Republics of the formerSoviet Union also participated.

History

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The Maccabiah Games were first held in1932.[1] In 1961, they were declared a "Regional Sports Event" by, and under the auspices and supervision of, theInternational Olympic Committee.[2][3][4] Among other Olympic and world champions, swimmerMark Spitz won 10 Maccabiah gold medals before earning his first of nine Olympic gold medals.[5]

Opening ceremonies

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A giant torch has been fixed in theRamat Gan Stadium for this games and on.

Yael Arad, who had won asilver medal for Israel in judo at theBarcelona Olympics in 1992, lit the Maccabiah torch.

Notable competitors

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In wrestling, Canadian OlympianAndy Borodow won two gold medals, one in freestyle and one in Greco Roman.[6] Canadian future OlympianOleg Ladik won a gold medal in wrestling.[7]

In soccer,Lev Kirshner andAmos Magee played for the United States as it won a bronze medal.[8][9]

AmericanStuart Krohn won a silver medal in men's rugby.Shawn Lipman represented the United States in rugby union, was team captain, and was selected as MVP of the Rugby Event, as the team won a silver medal.[10]

In tennis,Michael Zimmerman and Giora Payes of the U.S. won the men's doubles gold medals.[11]Eric Friedler andStacey Schefflin competed in tennis for the United States.[12][13]Damián Furmanski competed for Argentina in tennis.[14]

Russian grandmasterYuri Averbakh competed in chess.[15]

Participating communities

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The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that community contributed.

References

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  1. ^"The 20th Maccabiah Games: A brief History (Part 1),"The Canadian Jewish News.
  2. ^Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (2012).Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry. Palgrave Macmillan.ISBN 9781137291158.
  3. ^Mitchell G. Bard and Moshe Schwartz (2005).1001 Facts Everyone Should Know about Israel p. 84.
  4. ^"History of the Maccabiah Games". Maccabi Australia. Archived fromthe original on 2016-10-20. Retrieved2017-07-14.
  5. ^"At Maccabiah Games, 300 Jewish American athletes become bar and bat mitzvah".The Forward. July 14, 2022.
  6. ^"The Canadian Jewish news, July 29, 1993, page 4 | SFU Digitized Newspapers".
  7. ^"July 29, 1993, page 4".The Canadian Jewish News.
  8. ^"Lev Kirshner - Men's Soccer Coach".SDSU Athletics.
  9. ^"Thunder coach Amos Magee to head US Maccabi soccer team".OurSports Central. March 9, 2007.
  10. ^"US Maccabiah Rugby » Shawn Lipman".
  11. ^Golland, Mike (August 13, 1993). "Sport".The Australian Jewish News.
  12. ^"31 March 1993".Jewish Post.
  13. ^"Maccabiah Instills Jewish Pride in Athletes from Around the World".Jewish Telegraphic Agency. July 8, 1993. Retrieved5 September 2018.
  14. ^""Me encantaría estar en Israel 2017"".Diario Stampa (in Spanish). 15 July 2016. Retrieved31 July 2018.
  15. ^Doggers, Peter."Yuri Averbakh, The Oldest Living Grandmaster, Turns 100".Chess.com.

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