Olympic champion, 8x Pan American champion, 7x Maccabiah champion, coach
Participated in 3 Olympics. Won a silver medal in 1948 in team combined exercises, one gold (floor exercises), one silver (team combined exercises) & two bronze (team exercise with portable apparatus, asymetrical bars) in 1952; and, four gold(asymetrical bars, floor exercises, balance beam, team exercise), and two silver (individual combined exercises, team combined exercises) in 1956. A total of five gold, four silver and two bronze medals.
world bronze (artistic gymnast; floor exercises)
world gold (team) and bronze (floor exercises)
Won the individual and team parallel bars competition for Germany in the first modern Olympics in 1896. Decorated army veteran. Deported to a concentration camp at age 73 and died of starvation. Because he was a gold medal winner, he was spared deportation to a camp that specialized in the immediate execution of its inmates.
Won a gold medal in combined exercise apparatus team and a silver in the combined exercise team at the 56 games.
19 year old gymnast from Ohio. Finished very high in quite a number of recent events. On the US National Team. Olympic hopeful for 2000. Cites "The Diary of Anne Frank" as her favorite book on her web site.
Olympic champion (team combined exercises), killed by the Nazis in Sobibr
Olympic champion (team combined exercises)
Olympic champion (team combined exercises), killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz