Between 1896 and 2024, Jewish athletes have won at least 481 medals in Olympic Games competition.

TOTAL MEDALS

Silver
149

Gold
198

Bronze
134

TOP MEDALISTS

Dara Torres
(USA - 12)

Mark Spitz
(USA - 11)

Agnes Keleti
(Hungary - 11)

Year	Athlete	Country	Sport	Medals Won
				Gold	Silver	Bronze

2024 (Paris)	Jessica Fox	Australia	Canoe Slalom	2
	Noemie Fox	Australia	Canoe Slalom	1
	Jackie Dubrovich, Maia Weintraub	USA	Fencing	1
	Amit Elor	USA	Wrestling	1
	Tom Reuveny	Israel	Windsurfing	1
	Inbar Lanir	Israel	Judo		1
	Raz Hershko	Israel	Judo		1
	Sharon Kantor	Israel	Windsurfing		1
	Artem Dolgopyat	Israel	Artistic Gymnastics		1
	Adar Friedmann, Diana Svertsov, Ofir Shaham, Romi Paritzky, Shani Bakanov	Israel	Rythmic Gymnastics		1
	Claire Weinstein	USA	Swimming		1
	Sienna Green	Australia	Water Polo		1
	Nick Itzkin	USA	Fencing			1
	Sarah Levy	USA	Rugby			1
	Peter Paltchik	Israel	Judo			1
	Jemima Montag	Australia	Track			2

2020 (Held 2021) (Tokyo)	Linoy Ashram	Israel	Artistic Gymnastics	1
	Alix Klineman	USA	Beach Volleyball	1
	Sue Bird	USA	Basketball	1
	Artem Dolgopyat^	Israel	Artistic Gymnastics	1
	Lilia Akhaimova	Russia	Gymnastics	1
	Jessica Fox	Australia	Kayak	1	1
	Avishag Semberg	Israel	Taekwondo		1
	Timna Nelson-Levy, Ori Sasson, Li Kochman, Gili Sharir, Tohar Butbul, Peter Paltchik, Sagi Muki, and Raz Hershko	Israel	Mixed Judo Team		1

2018
(Pyeongchang)

Arielle Gold

USA

Snowboarding

1

2016 (Rio de Janeiro)	Anthony Ervin	USA	Swimming	2
	Sue Bird	USA	Basketball	1
	Alexandra Raisman	USA	Gymnastics	1	2
	Jo Aleh	New Zealand	Sailing		1
	Zoe De Toledo	UK	Rowing		1
	Jessica Fox	Australia	Kayak			1
	Or Sasson	Israel	Judo			1
	Yarden Gerbi	Israel	Judo			1

2014 (Sochi)	Jason Brown	USA	Ice Skating			1
2014 (Sochi)	Simon Shnapir	USA	Ice Skating			1

2012 (London)	Jo Aleh	New Zealand	Sailing	1
	Nathan Cohen	New Zealand	Rowing	1
	Sue Bird	USA	Basketball	1
	Alexandra Raisman	USA	Gymnastics	2		1
	Jessica Fox	Australia	Kayak		1
	Jason Lezak	USA	Swimming		1
	Felipe Kitadai	Brazil	Judo			1

2010
(Vancouver)

Steve Mesler

USA

Bobsled

1

2008 (Beijing)	Jason Lezak	USA	Swimming	2		1
	Garret Weber-Gale	USA	Swimming	2
	Ben Wildman-Tobriner	USA	Swimming	1
	Sue Bird	USA	Basketball	1
	Vasyl Fedoryshyn	Ukraine	Wrestling		1
	Sada Jacobson	USA	Fencing		1	1
	Tim Morehouse	USA	Fencing		1
	Merrill Moses	USA	Water Polo		1
	Dara Torres	USA	Swimming		3
	Josh West	Great Britain	Rowing		1
	Gisele Kanevsky	Argentina	Field Hockey			1
	Shahar Zubari	Israel	Windsurfing			1

2006 (Turin)	Sasha Cohen	USA	Figure Skating	1
	Ben Agosto	USA	Ice Dancing	1
	Irina Slutskaya	Russia	Figure Skating		1

2004 (Athens)	Gal Fridman	Israel	Sailing	1
	Lenny Krayzelburg	USA	Swimming	1
	Jason Lezak	USA	Swimming	1		1
	Scott Goldblatt	USA	Swimming	1
	Sue Bird	USA	Basketball	1
	Nicolas Massu	Chile	Tennis	2
	Gavin Fingleson	Australia	Baseball		1
	Adriana Behar	Brazil	Beach Volleyball		1
	Arik Ze'evi	Israel	Judo			1
	Deena Kastor	USA	Athletics			1
	Robert Dover	USA	Riding			1
	Sada Jacobson	USA	Fencing			1
	Sarah Poewe	Germany	Swimming			1
	Sergey Sharikov	Russia	Fencing			1

2002 (Salt Lake City)	Sarah Hughes	USA	Figure Skating	1
	Ilya Averbukh	Russia	Ice Dancing		1
	Irina Slutskaya	Russia	Figure Skating		1

1998 ( Nagano - Winter) 2000 (Sydney)	Anthony Ervin	USA	Swimming	1	1
	Lenny Krayzelburg	USA	Swimming	3
	Dara Torres	USA	Swimming	2		3
	Sergey Sharikov	Russia	Fencing	1
	Maria Mazina	Russia	Fencing	1
	Adriana Behar	Brazil	Beach Volleyball		1
	Scott Goldblatt	USA	Swimming		1
	Jason Lezak	USA	Swimming		1
	Yulia Raskina	Belarus	Rythmic Gymnastics		1
	Sara Whalen	USA	Soccer		1
	Robert Dover	USA	Equestrian			1
	Michael Kalganov	Israel	Canoe/Kayak			1

1994 (Lillehammer - Winter) 1996 (Atlanta)	Oksana Baiul	Ukraine	Figure Skating	1
	Sergey Sharikov	Russia	Fencing	1	1
	Kerri Strug	USA	Gymnastics	1
	Yanina Batrichina	Russia	Rhythmic gymnastics		1
	Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi	France	Canoe			1
	Gal Fridman	Israel	Sailing			1
	Robert Dover	USA	Equestrian			1
	Maria Mazina	Russia	Fencing			1

1992 (Albertville / Barcelone)	Joseph Jacobi	USA	Canoe	1
	Dara Torres	USA	Swimming	1
	Tatyana Lysenko	Unified Team	Gymnastics	2		1
	Valery Belenki	Germany	Gymnastics	1		1
	Yael Arad	Israel	Judo		1
	Arbital Selinger	Netherlands	Volleyball		1
	Shay Oren Smadga	Israel	Judo			1
	Kerri Strug	USA	Gymnastics			1
	Robert Dover	USA	Equestrian			1
	Dan Greenbaum	USA	Volleyball			1

1988 (Calgary / Seoul)	Yelena Shushunova	USSR	Gymnastics	2	1	1
	Dara Torres	USA	Swimming		1	1
	Brad Gilbert	USA	Tennis			1
	Carina Benninga	Netherlands	Field Hockey			1
	Seth Bauer	USA	Rowing			1

1984 (Sarajevo / Los Angeles)	Johan Harmenberg	Sweden	Fencing	1
	Mitch Gaylord	USA	Gymnastics	1	1	2
	Carina Benninga	Netherlands	Field Hockey	1
	Dara Torres	USA	Swimming	1
	Daniel Adler	Brazil	Yachting		1
	Robert Berland	USA	Judo		1
	Bernard Rajzman	Brazil	Volleyball		1
	Mark Berger	Canada	Judo			1

1980 (Lake Placid /Moscow)	Johan Harmenberg	Sweden	Fencing	1
	Gennady Karponosov	USSR	Ice Dancing	1
	Valentin Mankin	USSR	Yachting	1
	Svyetlana Krachevskya	USSR	Track & Field		1

1976 (Innsbruck / Montreal)	Irena Szewinska	Poland	Track	1
	Ernest Grunfeld	USA	Basketball	1
	Valery Shary	USSR	Weightlifting	1
	Eduard Vinokurov	USSR	Fencing	1
	Yuriy Liapkin	USSR	Hockey	1
	Efim Chulak	USSR	Volleyball		1
	Natalia Kushnir	USSR	Volleyball		1
	Nancy Lieberman	USA	Basketball		1
	Valentin Mankin	USSR	Yachting		1
	Wendy Weinberg	USA	Swimming			1
	Leonid Buryak	USSR	Soccer			1
	Victor Zilberman	Romania	Boxing			1
	Edith Master	USA	Equestrian			1
	Ildiko Sagine-Rejto	Hungary	Fencing			1

1972 (Sapporo / Munich)	Mark Spitz	USA	Swimming	7
	Valentin Mankin	USSR	Yachting	1
	Gyorgy Gedo	Hungary	Boxing	1
	Faina Melnik	USSR	Track	1
	Neal Shapiro	USA	Equestrian		1	1
	Ildiko Sagine-Rejto	Hungary	Fencing		1
	Mark Rakita	USSR	Fencing		1
	Eduoard Vinokurov	USSR	Fencing		1
	Andrea Gyarmati	Hungary	Swimming		1	1
	Grigory Kriss	USSR	Fencing			1
	Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska	Poland	Track			1
	Donald Cohan	USA	Yachting			1
	Efim Chulak	USSR	Volleyball			1
	Peter Bakonyi	Hungary	Fencing			1
	Peter Asch	USA	Water Polo			1

1968 (Grenoble / Mexico City)	Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska	Poland	Track	1		1
	Mark Spitz	USA	Swimming	2	1	1
	Victor Zinger	USSR	Ice Hockey	1
	Boris Gurevich	USSR	Wrestling	1
	Valentin Mankin	USSR	Yachting	1
	Mark Rakita	USSR	Fencing	1	1
	Victor Zinger	USSR	Ice Hockey	1
	Yuri Venherovsky	USSR	Volleyball	1
	Georgy Mondzolevsky	USSR	Volleyball	1
	Eduard Vinokurov	USSR	Fencing	1
	Grigory Kriss	USSR	Fencing		2
	Alexandr Gorelik	USSR	Figure Skating		1
	Alain Calmat	France	Figure Skating		1
	Josef Vitebsky	USSR	Fencing		1
	Semyon Belits-Geiman	USSR	Swimming		1	1
	Ildiko Uslaky-Rejto	Hungary	Fencing		1	2
	Peter Bakonyi	Hungary	Fencing			1
	Naum Prokupets	USSR	Canoe			1

1964 (Innsbruck / Tokyo)	Lawrence Brown	USA	Basketball	1
	Gerald Ashworth	USA	Track & Field	1
	Grigory Kriss	USSR	Fencing	1
	Mark Rakita	USSR	Fencing	1
	Dr. Gyorgy Karpati	Hungary	Water Polo	1
	Tamas Gabor	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Mark Midler	USSR	Fencing	1
	Tamara Press	USSR	Track & Field	2
	Irina Press	USSR	Track & Field	1
	Georgy Mondzolevsky	USSR	Volleyball	1
	Boris Dubrovsky	USSR	Rowing	1
	Arpad Orban	Hungary	Soccer	1
	Ildiko Uslaky-Rejto	Hungary	Fencing	2
	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	Track	1	2
	Yakov Rylsky	USSR	Fencing	1
	Alain Calmat	France	Figure Skating		1
	Marilyn Ramenofsky	USA	Swimming		1
	Boris Goykhman	USSR	Water Polo		1
	Nelli Abramova	USSR	Track & Field		1
	Isaac Berger	USA	Weightlifting		1
	Vivian Joseph	USA	Figure Skating			1
	Ronald Joseph	USA	Figure Skating			1
	James Bregman	USA	Judo			1
	Petra Burka	Canada	Figure Skating			1
	Aron Bogulyubov	USSR	Judo			1
	Yves Dreyfus	France	Fencing			1

1960 (Squaw Valley/ Rome)	Leonid Geishtor	USSR	Canoe	1
	Irina Press	USSR	Track & Field	1
	Tamara Press	USSR	Track & Field	1
	Gyula Török	Hungary	Boxing	1
	Tamara Press	USSR	Track & Field	1	1
	Mark Midler	USSR	Fencing	1
	Allan Jay	Great Britain	Fencing		2
	Vladimir Portnoy	USSR	Gymnastics		1	1
	Isaac Berger	USA	Weightlifting		1
	Boris Goikhman	USSR	Water Polo		1
	Guy Nosbaum	France	Rowing		1
	Jean Klein	France	Rowing		1
	Ildiko Uslaky-Rejto	Hungary	Fencing		1
	Klara Fried	Hungary	Canoe			1
	Moses Blass	Brazil	Basketball			1
	Albert Axelrod	USA	Fencing			1
	David Segal	Great Britain	Track			1
	Robert Halperin	USA	Yachting			1
	Rafael Grach	USSR	Speed Skating			1
	Leon Rottman	Romania	Canoe			1
	Imre Farkas	Hungary	Canoe			1
	Alfred Kuchevsky	USSR	Ice Hockey			1
	Dr. Gyorgy Karpati	Hungary	Water Polo			1

1956 (Cort. d’Ampezzo / Melbourne)	Alice Kertesz	Hungary	Gymnastics	1	1
	Leon Rottman	Romania	Canoe	2
	Laszlo Fabian	Hungary	Canoe	1
	Isaac Berger	USA	Weightlifting	1
	Agnes Keleti	Hungary	Gymnastics	4	2
	Dr. Gyorgy Karpati	Hungary	Water Polo	1
	Igor Rybak	USSR	Weightlifting	1
	Alfred Kuchevsky	USSR	Ice Hockey	1
	Boris Razinsky	USSR	Soccer	1
	Boris Gurevich	USSR	Wrestling	1
	Eva Szekely	Hungary	Swimming		1
	Claude Netter	France	Fencing		1
	Rafael Grach	USSR	Speed Skating		1
	Imre Farkas	Hungary	Canoe			1
	Boris Goykhman	USSR	Water Polo			1
	Armand Mouyal	France	Fencing			1
	David Tyschler	USSR	Fencing			1
	Yakov Rylsky	USSR	Fencing			1
	Yves Dreyfus	France	Fencing			1

1952 (Oslo / Helsinki)	Maria Gorokhovskaya	USSR	Gymnastics	2	5
	Boris Gurevich	USSR	Wrestling	1
	Mikhail Perelman	USSR	Gymnastics	1
	Agnes Keleti	Hungary	Gymnastics	1	1	2
	Judit Temes	Hungary	Swimming	1		1
	Eva Szekely	Hungary	Swimming	1
	Claude Netter	France	Fencing	1
	Dr. Gyorgy Karpati	Hungary	Water Polo	1
	Wally Wolf	USA	Swimming	1
	Robert Antal	Hungary	Water Polo	1
	Yakov Punkin	USSR	Wrestling	1
	Sandor Geller	Hungary	Soccer	1
	Grigori Novak	USSR	Weightlifting		1
	Leonid Gissen	USSR	Rowing		1
	Aleksandr Moiseyev	USSR	Basketball		1
	Henry Wittenberg	USA	Wrestling		1
	Lev Vainshtein	USSR	Shooting			1
	Herbert Klein	Germany	Swimming			1
	James Fuchs	USA	Track			1

1948 (St. Moritz / London)	Frank Spellman	USA	Weightlifting	1
	Wally Wolf	USA	Swimming	1
	Henry Wittenberg	USA	Wrestling	1
	Dr. Steve Seymour	USA	Track		1
	James Fuchs	USA	Track			1
	George Worth	USA	Fencing			1
	Norman C. Armitage	USA	Fencing			1

1936 (Garmisch / Berlin)	Samuel Balter	USA	Basketball	1
	Robert Fein*	Austria	Weightlifting	1
	Endre Kabos	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Károly Kárpáti	Hungary	Wrestling	1
	Gyorgy Brody	Hungary	Water Polo	1
	Miklos Skarnay	Hungary	Water Polo	1
	Endre Kabos	Hungary	Fencing		1
	Viktor Kalisch*	Austria	Canoe		1
	Irving Meretsky	Canada	Basketball		1
	Helene Mayer	Germany	Fencing		1
	Jadwiga Wajsowna (Weiss)	Poland	Track		1
	Felix Kasper	Austria	Figure Skating		1
	Lászlo Szollás	Hungary	Figure Skating			1
	Emilia Rotter	Hungary	Figure Skating			1
	Gerard Blitz	Belgium	Water Polo			1

1932 (Lake Placid/ Los Angeles)	Attila Petschauer	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Istvan Barta	Hungary	Water Polo	1
	Gyorgy Brody	Hungary	Water Polo	1
	Miklos Skarnay	Hungary	Water Polo	2
	Irving Jaffee	USA	Speed Skating	2
	Lillian Copeland	USA	Track	1
	George Gulack	USA	Gymnastics	1
	Hans Haas	Austria	Weightlifting		1
	Abraham Kurland	Denmark	Wrestling		1
	Peter Jaffe	Great Britain	Yachting		1
	Károly Kárpáti	Hungary	Wrestling		1
	Dr. Philip Erenberg	USA	Gymnastics		1
	Fritzie Burger	Austria	Figure Skating		1
	Rudolf Ball	Germany	Ice Hockey			1
	Nikolaus Hirschl	Austria	Wrestling			1
	Endre Kabos	Hungary	Fencing			1
	Nathan Bor	USA	Boxing			1
	Albert Schwartz	USA	Swimming			1
	Lászlo Szollás	Hungary	Figure Skating			1
	András Székely	Hungary	Swimming			1
	László Szabados	Hungary	Swimming			1
	Emilia Rotter	Hungary	Figure skating			1
	Jadwiga Wajsowna (Weiss)	Poland	Track			1

1928 (St. Moritz / Amsterdam)	Estella Agsteribbe	Netherlands	Gymnastics	1
	Annie Polak	Netherlands	Gymnastics	1
	Judijke Simons	Netherlands	Gymnastics	1
	Elka de Levie	Netherlands	Gymnastics	1
	Fanny Rosenfeld	Canada	Track & Field	1	1
	Attila Petschauer	Hungary	Fencing	1	1
	Helena Nordheim	Netherlands	Gymnastics	1
	Hans Haas*	Austria	Weightlifting	1
	Dr. Sandor Gombos	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Helene Mayer	Germany	Fencing	1
	Janos Garai	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Istvan Barta	Hungary	Water Polo		1
	Lillian Copeland	USA	Track & Field		1
	Fritzie Burger	Austria	Figure Skating			1
	Ellis R. Smouha	Great Britain	Track & Field			1
	Harry Devine	USA	Boxing			1
	Harry Isaacs	South Africa	Boxing			1
	Samuel Rabin	Great Britain	Wrestling			1

1924 (Chamonix / Paris)	Harold Abrahams	Great Britain	Track	1	1
	Elias Katz	Finland	Track	1	1
	Alexandre Lippmann	France	Fencing	1
	Louis A. Clark	USA	Track	1
	Jackie Fields	USA	Boxing	1
	Janos Garai	Hungary	Fencing		1	1
	Gerard Blitz	Belgium	Water Polo		1
	Maurice Blitz	Belgium	Water Polo		1
	Baron H.L. De Morpurgo	Italy	Tennis			1
	Sydney Jelinek	USA	Crew			1

1920 (Antwerp)	Samuel Mosberg	USA	Boxing	1
	Alexandre Lippmann	France	Fencing		1	1
	Samuel Gerson	USA	Wrestling		1
	Gerard Blitz	Belgium	Water Polo/Swimming		1	1
	Maurice Blitz	Belgium	Water Polo		1
	Fred Meyer	USA	Wrestling			1
	Montgomery "Moe" Herzowitch	Canada	Boxing			1

1912 (Stockholm)	Dr. Jeno Fuchs	Hungary	Fencing	2
	Dr. Oszkar Gerde	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Dezsö Földes	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Lajos Werkner	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Gaston Salmon	Belgium	Fencing	1
	Jacques Ochs	Belgium	Fencing	1
	Edgar Seligman	Great Britian	Fencing		1
	Dr. Otto Herschmann	Austria	Fencing		1
	Abel Kiviat	USA	Track		1
	Albert Bogen*	Austria	Fencing		1
	Felix Pipes*	Austria	Tennis		1
	Edgar Seligman	Great Britian	Fencing		1
	Alvah T. Meyer	USA	Track		1
	Ivan Osiier	Denmark	Fencing		1
	Imre Gellert	Hungary	Gymnastics		1
	Samu Fóti	Hungary	Gymnastics		1
	Josephine Sticker	Austria	Swimming		1
	Mor Kovacs (Koczan)	Hungary	Track		1
	Klara Milch	Austria	Swimming			1
	Margarete Adler*	Austria	Swimming			1

1908 (London)	Dr. Jeno Fuchs	Hungary	Fencing	2
	Dr. Oszkar Gerde	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Lajos Werkner	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Alexandre Lippmann	France	Fencing	1	1
	Dezsö Földes	Hungary	Fencing	1
	Richard Weisz	Hungary	Wrestling	1
	Jean Stern	France	Fencing	1
	Harald Bohr	Denmark	Soccer		1
	Harry Simon	USA	Shooting		1
	József Munk	Hungary	Swimming		1
	Imre Zachar	Hungary	Swimming		1
	Edgar Seligman	Great Britain	Fencing		1
	Odon Bodor	Hungary	Track			1
	Otto Scheff	Austria	Swimming			1
	Charles “Clair” Jacobs	USA	Track			1

1904 (St. Louis)	Myer Prinstein	USA	Track	2
	Samuel Berger	USA	Boxing	1
	Philip Hess	USA	Lacrosse		1
	Albert Lehman	USA	Lacrosse		1
	Daniel Frank	USA	Track		1
	Otto Wahle	Austria	Swimming			1

1900 (Paris)	Myer Prinstein	USA	Track	1	1
	Otto Wahle	Austria	Swimming		2
	Henri Cohen	Belgium	Water Polo		1
	Jean Bloch	France	Soccer		1
	Edouard Alphonse de Rothschild	France	Polo			1
	Siegfried Flesch	Austria	Fencing			1

1896 (Athens)	Alfred Flatow	Germany	Gymnastics	3	1
	Felix Schmal	Austria	Cycling	1	2
	Otto Herschmann	Austria	Swimming		1
	Felix Flatow	Germany	Gymnastics	2
	Alfred Hajos-Guttmann	Hungary	Swimming	2
	Dr. Paul Neumann	Austria	Swimming	1

*There are some questions about the Jewishness of these Austrian athletes (also about some Russians).
^His father is Jewish, his mother is not. Israel rabbinate does not consider him Jewish. Reports have not indicated whether he is a practicing Jew.

Sources: Medals between 1896 and 2008- Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2008 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved;
Olympic Organization;
International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
“Artem Dolgopyat Brought Israel a Historic Gold Medal. But Israel Won't Let Him Get Married,” Haaretz, (August 2, 2021).

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Jewish Olympic Medalists