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Since the inception of the modern Olympic Games in 1896, Jewish athletes have taken part in both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. The following is a list of Jewish athletes who have won an Olympic medal in the modern games.

Under the criteria of this list, Olympic medalists must have or had at least one Jewish parent and must have identified as Jewish. If the player has converted to another religion before their Olympic achievements, they should not be listed. Similarly, if the player has converted to Judaism before their Olympic achievements, they should be included; if they converted afterwards, they should not be listed here.

Summer Olympics

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Alfred and Gustav Flatow on a German stamp; both were killed in the Holocaust
Paul Neumann
Otto Wahle
Alexandre Lippmann
Jackie Fields
Jenő Fuchs
1928 Dutch women's gymnastics team, which had four Jewish members, three of whom were killed in the Holocaust
Bobbie Rosenfeld of Canada, gold medalist at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics
Lillian Copeland, track and field gold medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics
Endre Kabos, gold medalist at the 1936 Berlin Olympics who was killed in the Holocaust
Ágnes Keleti, one of the most decorated Jewish Olympians in history
Isaac Berger
Tamara Press of the USSR
Irina Press of the USSR
Leon Rotman
Grigory Kriss
Árpád Orbán, Hungarian football player and Olympic gold medalist
Marilyn Ramenofsky
Mark Spitz, one of the most decorated Olympic swimmers
Dara Torres, twelve-time Olympic swimming medalist
Aly Raisman, three-time Olympic gold medalist gymnast
Jessica Fox, Gold medalist canoeist
Jo Aleh, Gold medalist sailor for New Zealand
Gal Friedman, Israel's first Olympic gold medalist (in windsurfing), and Ariel Ze'evi, bronze medalist in judo

1896 Athens

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Gold
  • Alfred Flatow, Germany, gymnastics[1]
    • parallel bars
    • gymnastics, team parallel bars
    • gymnastics, team horizontal bar
Silver

1900 Paris

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1904 St. Louis

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1908 London

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1912 Stockholm

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1920 Antwerp

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1924 Paris

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1928 Amsterdam

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1932 Los Angeles

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1936 Berlin

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1948 London

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1952 Helsinki

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1956 Melbourne

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1960 Rome

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1964 Tokyo

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1968 Mexico City

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1972 Munich

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Gold
  • György Gedó, Hungary
    • boxing, light flyweight
  • Valentin Mankin, USSR
    • yachting, tempest class
  • Faina Melnik, USSR
    • athletics, discus throw
  • Mark Spitz, USA, swimming[4]
    • 100-meter freestyle
    • 200-meter freestyle
    • 100-meter butterfly
    • 200-meter butterfly
    • 400-meter freestyle relay
    • 400-meter medley relay
    • 800-meter freestyle relay
Silver
Bronze

1976 Montreal

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1980 Moscow

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Gold
Silver

1984 Los Angeles

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1988 Seoul

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1992 Barcelona

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

1996 Atlanta

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

2000 Sydney

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

2004 Athens

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

2008 Beijing

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

2012 London

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

2016 Rio de Janeiro

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Gold
Silver
  • Jo Aleh, New Zealand
    • sailing, 470 class
  • Zoe De Toledo, Great Britain
    • rowing, coxed eight
  • Aly Raisman, USA, gymnastics
    • individual all-around
    • individual floor exercises
Bronze

2020 Tokyo

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Gold
Bronze

2024 Paris

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Gold
Silver
Bronze

Winter Olympics

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Rafayel Grach of the USSR
Emília Rotter
Sasha Cohen of the USA
Sarah Hughes of the USA
Irina Slutskaya

1932 Lake Placid

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Gold
Bronze

1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen

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Silver
Bronze

1956 Cort. d’Ampezzo

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Silver

1960 Squaw Valley

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Silver
Bronze

1964 Innsbruck

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Bronze

1968 Grenoble

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Silver

1980 Lake Placid

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Gold

2002 Salt Lake City

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Gold
Silver

2006 Turin

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Silver
Bronze

2010 Vancouver

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Gold
Silver

2014 Sochi

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Gold
Bronze

2018 Pyeongchang

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Bronze

2022 Beijing

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Bronze

See also

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Others

References

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