1993 Maccabiah Games

1993 Maccabiah Games

Maccabiah Infobox
Name = Games of the XIV Maccabiah


Size = 150
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Opening city = Ramat Gan
Nations participating = 48
Athletes participating = 5100
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Opening ceremony =
Closing ceremony =
Officially opened by = Yael Arad
Stadium = National StadiumThe 1993 14th Maccabiah Games brought 5,100 athletes to Israel from 48 nations.

Jewish athletes from Poland, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia participated for the first time, and after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and South Africa returned after 20 years of political isolation. Athletes from the eight Republics of the former Soviet Union also participated.

Yael Arad, who had won a silver medal for Israel in judo at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, lit the Maccabiah torch.

Participating communities

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

External links

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


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