1981 Maccabiah Games

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1981 Maccabiah Games

The 1981 11th Maccabiah Games

Maccabiah Games

The Maccabiah Games is an international Judaism athletic paralympic event similar to the Olympic Games. The Maccabiah is held in Israel every four years under the auspices of the Maccabi Federation, a part of the Maccabi World Union....
brought 3,450 athletes to Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
from 30 nations.

The 30-sports menu included sailing

Sailing

Sailing is the art of controlling a boat with large pieces of canvas cloth called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and dagger or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to change the direction and speed of a boat....
and softball

Softball

Softball is a Team sport sport popular especially in the United States. It is a direct descendant of baseball and the rules of both sports are substantially similar....
for the first time.

New facilities for squash, wrestling, karate, and judo were introduced.

Mitch Gaylord

Mitch Gaylord

Mitchell Jay Gaylord is an United States gymnastics and Olympic gold medalist.While attending UCLA, he won the All-Around in the 1983 and 1984 U.S....
, gymnastics, won 5 gold medals; he later went on to win Olympic

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
gold.

Also, tennis players Brad Gilbert

Brad Gilbert

Brad Gilbert is an American tennis coach, a television tennis commentator, and former professional tennis player. He is the current coach of Britain's 2nd highest ranked tennis player, Alex Bogdanovic, as part of his contract with the Lawn Tennis Association....
and Andrea Leand

Andrea Leand

Andrea Leand is a former professional tennis player.She played on the WTA tour from 1981 to 1994. She won a singles title at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1984 and reached the 4th round of the U.S....
earned gold medals, and Shlomo Glickstein

Shlomo Glickstein

Shlomo Glickstein is a former professional tennis player from Israel. He reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 22 in November 1982....
won the men's singles in tennis, the first Israeli to win a Maccabiah tennis championship.

Mark Berger

Mark Berger

Professor Mark C. Berger , was the director of The Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Kentucky until his death at age 47....
, who three years later was to go on to win a silver medal in the Olympics, won a gold medal in judo.

In track and field, James Espir

James Espir

James Espir , is an England Middle distance track event whose career spanned the late 1970s and early 1980s. Espir competed for Shaftesbury Harriers Athletics Club and for Great Britain....
of Great Britain

Great Britain

Great Britain is an island lying to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the List of islands by area, and the largest in Europe. With a population of 58.9 million people it is List of islands by population....
, who earlier that year had run a mile in 3 minutes 56.7 seconds, thereby becoming the fastest Jew

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish miler ever, won the 1500 metres and 5000 metres gold medals on successive days.