1957 Maccabiah Games

1957 Maccabiah Games

Maccabiah Infobox
Name = Games of the V Maccabiah

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Opening city = Ramat Gan, Israel
Nations participating = 20
Athletes participating = 980
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Officially opened by = Yitzhak Ben Zvi
Stadium = Ramat Gan StadiumTwenty countries sent 980 athletes to the 1957 5th Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletics competition similar to the Olympics.

The presence of a large number of world-class Jewish athletes elevated the quality of competition. Plans were set to build a Maccabiah Village to house athletes for Games of the future.

Mexico sent its first contingent of athletes.

In boxing, Abraham Rozenberg, a concentration camp survivor, won the heavyweight division gold medal for the second Games in a row. Rozenberg fighting for France lived to that time in Germany, but Germany didn't have a team in that maccabiah, so Rozenberg fought for France.

Ben Helfgott, a concentration camp survivor, won the weightlifting gold medal in the lightweight class for Great Britain for the second Games in a row.
Abie Grossfeld of the United States dominated the Games, winning 7 golds in 7 gymnastics events: AA, R, PH, FX, HB, PB, & V.

Angela Buxton of Great Britain, who the year prior had won the doubles title at Wimbledon, won the gold medal in women's singles.

In fencing, Byron Krieger, 2-time Pan American Games gold medal winner, won individual GOLD in SABRE and individual BRONZE in FOIL.

In weightlifting, Isaac Berger became the first athlete to establish a world record in the State of Israel, pressing 258 pounds (117 kg) in Featherweight competition for the US, a year after winning an Olympic gold medal.

Ben Helfgott, a concentration camp survivor, won the weightlifting gold medal in the lightweight class for Great Britain for the third Games in a row.

Participating communities

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

Link

* [http://www.jewishsports.net/the_maccabiah_games.htm Summaries of each of the Games]


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