Olympic Medal Winners
Austria |
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Adler, Margarete |
Swimming |
1912 Bronze 4x100 meter freestyle relay |
Burger, Fritzi |
Figure Skating |
1928 Silver; 1932 Silver |
Milch, Klara |
Swimming |
1912 Bronze 4x100 meter freestyle relay |
Preis, Ellen (b. 1912) |
Fencing |
1932 Gold; 1936 Bronze; 1948 Bronze |
Sticker, Josephine |
Swimming |
1912 Bronze 4x100 meter freestyle relay |
Belarus |
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Raskina, Yulia (b. 1982) |
Rhythmic gymnastics |
2000 Silver individual all-around |
Bohemia |
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Rosenbaumova, Helga Hedwig |
Tennis |
1900 Bronze singles and Bronze mixed doubles |
Brazil |
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Behar, Adriana Brandao (b. 1969) |
Beach volleyball |
2000 Silver; 2004 Silver double's event |
Canada |
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Rosenfeld, Fanny "Bobbie" (1903-1969) |
Track and field |
1928 Gold 4x100-meter team relay and Silver 100-meter sprint |
Denmark |
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Lachmann, Keren (1916-1962) |
Fencing |
1948 Silver foil; 1952 Bronze foil |
Osiier, Ellen |
Fencing |
1924 Gold foil |
Wulf Carstensen, Fritze |
Swimming |
1948 Silver 4x100-m relay |
France |
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Fox-Jerusalmi, Miryam (b. 1961) |
Canoeing |
1996 Bronze K1 slalom |
Hungary |
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Kertesz, Alice (b. 1935) |
Gymnastics |
1956 Gold team portable apparatus, Silver team all-around |
Pfeffer, Anna |
Kayak |
1968 Silver K2 500-meter; 1972 Bronze K1 500-meter; 1976 Silver K2 500-meter |
Rotter, Emilie (1906-?) |
Figure Skating |
1932 Bronze pairs event; 1936 Bronze pairs event |
Scharerer-Elek, Ilona |
Fencing |
1936 Gold individual foil; 1948 Gold individual foil; 1952 Silver individual foil |
Szekely, Eva (b. 1927) |
Swimming |
1952 Gold 200-meter breaststroke; 1956 Silver 200-meter breaststroke |
Temes, Judit (b. 1930) |
Swimming |
1952 Gold 4x100-meter freestyle team relay and Bronze 100-meter freestyle |
Ujlaky-Rejto, Ildiko (b. 1937) |
Fencing |
1960 Silver team foil; 1964 Gold team foil and Gold individual foil; 1968 Silver team foil and Bronze individual foil; 1972 Silver team foil; 1976 Bronze team foil |
Israel |
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Judo |
1992 Silver half-middleweight class |
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Netherlands |
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Benninga, Carina (b. 1962) |
Field hockey |
1984 Gold; 1988 Bronze |
Blits-Agsteribbe, Stella (1909-1943) |
Gymnastics |
1928 Gold team event |
de Levie, Elka (1905-1979) |
Gymnastics |
1928 Gold team event |
Dresden-Polak, Anna (1906-1943) |
Gymnastics |
1928 Gold team event |
Kloot-Nordheim, Lea (1903-1943) |
Gymnastics |
1928 Gold team event |
Nordheim, Helena |
Gymnastics |
1928 Gold team event |
Polak, Annie |
Gymnastics |
1928 Gold team event |
Themans-Simons, Judikje (1904-1943) |
Gymnastics |
1928 Gold team event |
Poland |
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Szewinska, Irena Kirszenstein (b. 1946) |
Track and field |
1964 Gold4x100-meter relay team, Silver 200-meter and Silver long jump; 1968 Gold 200-meter and Bronze 100-meter; 1972 Bronze 200-meter; 1976 Gold 400-meter |
Wajsowna, Jadwiga (Panna Weiss) (1912-1990) |
Track and field |
1932 Bronze discus throw; 1936 Silver discus throw |
Russia |
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Batrichina, Yanina (b. 1979) |
Rhythmic gymnastics |
1996 Silver individual all-around |
Mazina, Marina (b. 1964) |
Fencing |
1996 Bronze team event; 2000 Gold team epee |
Soviet Union |
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Abramova, Nelly |
Indoor volleyball |
1964 Silver |
Bergen, Larysa |
Indoor volleyball |
1976 Silver |
Gorokhovskaya, Maria (b. 1921) |
Gymnastics |
1952 Gold individual all-around, Gold team all-around, Silver vault, Silver parallel bars, Silver balance beam, Silver floor exercise and Silver team hand apparatus |
Krachevskaya, Svetlana (b. 1944) |
Track and field |
1980 Silver shot put |
Krepkina, Vera (b. 1933) |
Track and field |
1960 Gold long jump |
Kushnir, Natalia |
Indoor volleyball |
1976 Silver |
Melnick, Fania (b. 1945) |
Track and field |
1972 Gold discus throw |
Press, Irina Natanova (b. 1939) |
Track and field |
1960 80-meter hurdles; 1964 Gold pentathalon |
Press, Tamara Natanova (b. 1937) |
Track and field |
1960 Gold shot put and Silver discus throw; 1964 Gold shot put and Gold discus throw |
Rodnin, Irena Kirszenstein (b. 1939) |
Ice Skating |
1972 Gold pairs; 1976 Gold pairs; 1980 Gold pairs |
Shoshnova, Yelena (b. 1969) |
Gymnastics |
1988 Gold individual all-around, Gold team combined excercises, Silver balance beam and Bronze uneven bars |
Vinogradova, Valentina |
Indoor volleyball |
1964 Silver; 1968 Gold |
Unified Team |
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Lysenko, Tatiana Felixovna (b. 1975) |
Gymnastics |
1992 Gold balance beam, Gold team competition and Bronze vault |
United States |
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Cohen, Tifanny Lisa (b. 1966) |
Swimming |
1984 Gold 400-meter freestyle and Gold 800-meter freestyle |
Copeland, Lillian (1904-1964) |
Track and field |
1928 Silver discus throw; 1932 Gold discus throw |
DeCosta, Sara (b. 1977) |
Ice hockey |
1998 Gold; 2002 Silver |
Heldman, Julie (b. 1945) |
Tennis |
1968 Gold mixed doubles, Silver women's doubles and Bronze women's singles |
Hughes, Sarah (b. 1985) |
Figure Skating |
2002 Gold |
Jacobson, Sada (b. 1983) |
Fencing |
2004 Bronze |
Joseph, Vivian |
Figure Skating |
1964 Bronze pairs |
Josephson, Karen |
Swimming |
1992 Gold synchronized pairs |
Josephson, Sarah |
Swimming |
1992 Gold synchronized pairs |
Kastor (Drossin), Deena (b. 1973) |
Marathon |
2004 Bronze |
Lieberman-Cline, Nancy (b. 1958) |
Basketball |
1976 Silver |
Master, Edith |
Equestrian |
1976 Bronze team dressage |
Meyer, Deborah |
Swimming |
1968 Gold 800-meter freestyle, Gold 400-meter Freestyle, Gold 200-meter freestyle |
Ramenofsky, Marilyn (b. 1946) |
Swimming |
1964 Silver 400-meter freestyle |
Rothhammer, Keena (b. 1957) |
Swimming |
1972 Gold 800-meter freestyle and Bronze 200-meter freestyle |
Strug, Kerri (b. 1977) |
Gymnastics |
1992 Bronze team combined exercises; 1996 Gold team combined exercises and Olympic Spirit Award |
Torres, Dara (b. 1967) |
Swimming |
1984 Gold 4x100-meter freestyle team relay; 1988 Silver 400-meter team relay and Bronze 400-meter medley team relay; 1992 Gold 400-meter medley team relay; 2000 Gold 4x100-meter freestyle team relay, Gold 4x100-meter medley team relay, Bronze 50-meter freestyle, Bronze 100-meter freestyle and Bronze 100-meter butterfly |
Weinberg, Wendy |
Swimming |
1976 Bronze 800-meter freestyle |
Whalen, Sara Eve (b. 1976) |
Soccer |
2000 Silver |
How to cite this page
. "Olympic Medal Winners." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. 20 March 2009. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on March 6, 2021) <https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/olympic-medal-winners>.
How can your list not include Agnes Keleti, who has won more medals than any other Jewish woman?? She competed by Hungary in 1948, 1952 and 1956.