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| Born | 23 October 1961 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) [1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
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Shelley Steiner, also known as Shelley Steiner-Wetterberg (born 23 October 1961) is a Canadian fencer, who fenced in three Olympic Games and won a gold medal in the 1981 Maccabiah Games in Israel. [2]
Steiner was born in Toronto, Canada. [3] She lives in Montigny-sur-Loing, France. [3]
She competed in the women's team foil events at the 1984 Summer Olympics (coming in 9th), the 1988 Summer Olympics (coming in 9th), and the 1992 Summer Olympics (coming in 12th). [4] [5] [3]
Steiner won a gold medal in foil at the 1981 Maccabiah Games in Israel. [6] [7]
Allan Louis Neville Jay MBE was a British five-time-Olympian foil and épée fencer, and world champion.
Ayelet Ohayon is a three-time Olympian Israeli foil fencer. She also won the silver medal at the 1993 Junior World Cup Championships, the gold medal at the 2000 European Championships, and a gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in women's team foil, as part of Team Israel.
At the 10th Maccabiah Games in Israel, more than 2,800 athletes from 34 countries participated in 26 different sports, including chess and bridge and for the first time badminton.
Twenty-one countries sent 980 athletes to compete in the 1957 5th Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletics competition similar to the Olympics. The opening ceremony on September 15, 1957, was held in Ramat Gan Stadium, with athletes parading before Israeli President Yitzhak Ben Zvi.
The 11th Maccabiah Games brought 3,450 athletes to Israel from 35 nations. The Opening Ceremony was held on July 7, 1981, before a crowd of 53,000 and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Ramat Gan Stadium, with 3,500 Jewish athletes parading past him. Representative Jack Kemp and a supporter of Israel, marched with the United States team. Israel won the most medals (199), with 65 gold. The United States won 188 medals, 85 gold. South Africa, Britain, and Canada had the next-most total medals.
The 7th Maccabiah Games in 1965 saw 1,500 athletes from 29 different countries compete in 21 sports. It was the first Maccabiah Games for Iran, Jamaica, Peru, and Venezuela. The United States delegation won the most gold medals, followed by Israel, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Mexico and the Netherlands, Southern Rhodesia, Australia, Argentina and Italy, and Brazil, Canada, Denmark, and Sweden with one each.
The 9th Maccabiah Games, which were held from July 9 to 19, 1973, were opened in Ramat Gan Stadium, Israel. Spain and Costa Rica made their debuts in the Games. A total of 1,800 athletes competed on behalf of 27 countries in 20 branches of sport, in 30 venues across Israel. The Games took place ten months after the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were slain during the Munich Massacre. The United States won 76 gold medals, and Israel was next with 60 gold medals.
Pavol Steiner, also Pavel Steiner and Paul Steiner was a Slovak Olympic water polo player and swimmer representing Czechoslovakia. He was also a cardiology surgeon. Steiner competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in water polo, won a bronze medal at the 1931 European Aquatics Championships in swimming, and won five swimming gold medals and one water polo gold medal combined at the 1932 Maccabiah Games and 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine.
Josh Binstock, nicknamed Binner, is a male two-time Olympian beach volleyball player from Canada. He competed in the 2012 Olympics in London and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. He also competed for Canada in volleyball in Israel in the 2001 Maccabiah Games, the 2005 Maccabiah Games, the 2009 Maccabiah Games, the 2013 Maccabiah Games, and the 2017 Maccabiah Games. In 2014, he and his partner were Canadian national champions, his third national championship.
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