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This list includes Jews who have had outstanding achievements in sports. The criteria is: a) 1-3 places winners at major international tournaments; b) for team sports, winning in preliminary competitions of finals at major international tournaments, or playing for several seasons for clubs of major national leagues; and c) owners of world records.

See also: List of Jewish American sportspeople.

Commissioners, managers, and owners

Sportscasters & promoters

 Larry Merchant, boxing writer and broadcaster

Sportsmen

Baseball

Basketball

Boxing

Chess

Cricket

Fencing

Figure skating

Football (American)

Football (Australian)

Football (Soccer)

Golf

Gymnastics

Hockey

Judo

Mixed Martial Arts

Motorsport

Rugby (league and union)

Sailing

Swimming

Table Tennis

Tennis

Track and field

Weightlifting

Professional Wrestling

References

Footnotes

  1. Obituary, Jewish Chronicle, Jan. 19, 2007 p.45
  2. [http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=hockey&ID=3
  3. ^ Dresner, Stacey (2006-11-17). "Conversation with Manny Leibert". Connecticut Jewish Ledger. p. 2. Retrieved 2006-11-17. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. Wilf - "The team’s owner, Zygi Wilf, an Orthodox Jew ..."
  5. Blomberg - "Ron Blomberg... Big, hulking Jewish kid from Atlanta."
  6. Bernard Postal, Jesse Silver, Roy Silver, Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports, Bloch Publishing Co., 1965
  7. "Jewish shooting star aims to make his mark in NBA... Bluthenthal’s late mother was Jewish and his father is black — the family name Bluthenthal originated with a slave owner David Bluthenthal believes was German-Jewish."
  8. "Bruin fans call him the Jewish Jordan...He's a real, live Jewish kid from the heart of Los Angeles, whose step-father is Israeli and has visited Israel twice"
  9. "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for... Ice skater Sasha Cohen"
  10. Galler-Rabinowitz -
  11. "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for in Turin... Melissa Gregory" "Gregory is the daughter of a Jewish mother and a non-practicing Catholic father. She now lives in Connecticut to train and Gregory recently spoke to the Connecticut Jewish Ledger about her religious background: "We were brought up with the feeling that you have to believe in G-d. You have to believe in right and wrong. The rest they kind of left up to us. We celebrated everything-Christmas, Hanukkah, all the Jewish holidays, Easter. They taught us both traditions. Then when we got older they said whatever we chose and whatever we wanted was good with them. I identify that my heritage is Jewish. I feel proud of it.""
  12. "Emily Hughes—whose sister Sarah won the 2002 Olympic gold medal in women's figureskating—also is Jewish."
  13. "16-year-old Sarah Hughes has a Jewish mother, Amy Hughes née Pasternack, and reportedly grew up in a house with some attachment to Judaism. But odds are you didn't read about it in your local Jewish paper."]
  14. "2006 Jewish-American Olympians to watch for in Turin! Ice dancer Jamie Silverstein"
  15. Bornstein - named as on "Jewish Sports Review Men's All-America First-Team" at ; ""It was amazing. It was great. I loved it. It made me realize how fulfilling and enriched Jewish culture really is," Bornstein said. "So in the past couple years, I've felt more Jewish than ever." His father is Jewish and his mother is a non-Jew from Mexico. Grew up celebrating Passover and Rosh Hashanah with relatives. Did not have a bar mitzvah, and doesn't consider himself observant. The Maccabiah experience was a way for him to connect with Judaism."
  16. Feilhaber - "Outside of my UCLA teammate Benny Feilhaber, I never really thought there were other high-class Jewish soccer players out there"
  17. Tvrtko reveals: My grandmother was Jewish - Goes on to say that it was on his mother's side making him Jewish according to halakha
  18. de Ridder - "he netted a Ajax's only goal in the Champions League game at Maccabi Tel Aviv, which Ajax lost in dramatic fashion. That fixture was a special one for De Ridder, who is Jewish and has an Israeli mother."
  19. "Nystrom is the highest Jewish draft pick in NHL draft history"
  20. "Jewish skaters vie for spots in the NHL"
  21. The Sunday Telegraph (London); 20/03/05; Nicholas Bagnall; p.12
  22. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "Sheila's upbringing in an all-girl Jewish family generated no interest in motoring beyond her training as a Women's Auxiliary Air Force driver."
  23. "Bullimore's sister buoyed by rabbis' support", Jewish Chronicle January 24, 1997 p.1
  24. Spitz - "Spitz became the first Jewish recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award..."
  25. ""He knows he's Jewish and the values are there with him," said Clark Goldstein, Paul's father."
  26. "Not too many people know that I am Jewish," Pete Sampras told the JC this week. ... Sampras added that he had never been to Synagogue.' Jewish Chronicle, June 18 1999, p.1.
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