| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's lacrosse | ||
Representing  United States | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 | 1904 St Louis | Team competition |
Albert Lehman was an American lacrosse player. [1]
He was Jewish. [1] He played for the St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association. [2] He won a silver medal in lacrosse at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. [1] [3]
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XI Olympiad and officially branded as Berlin 1936, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then part of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona on the 29th IOC Session on 26 April 1931. The 1936 Games marked the second and most recent time the International Olympic Committee gathered to vote in a city bidding to host those Games. Later rule modifications forbade cities hosting the bid vote from being awarded the games.
The sport of field lacrosse was played at the 1904 Summer Olympics, which marked the first time that lacrosse had been featured at the Olympic Games. Three teams participated — two from Canada and one from the United States. One of the Canadian teams consisted entirely of Mohawk nation players. The victorious Shamrock Lacrosse Team is more commonly known as the Winnipeg Shamrocks.
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MyerPrinstein was a Polish American track and field athlete who held the world record for the long jump in 1900 and won four gold medals in three Olympic Games for the long jump and triple jump. He was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club in Queens, New York. A 1902 law graduate and track team captain for Syracuse University, after college he became a New York real estate lawyer and businessman while living in Jamaica Plains, Queens. To date, he is the only Olympic track athlete to win both the triple and long jump in the same Olympics, earning the distinction in St. Louis in 1904.
The United States hosted the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri. American athletes won a total of 231 medals, setting a record for the most medals won at a single Olympics that still stands today.
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Philip Hess was an American lacrosse player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. In 1904, as a member of the St. Louis Amateur Athletic Association, Hess won the silver medal in the lacrosse tournament. Hess was Jewish.