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GYMNASTICS
Ronald S. Barak is an American gymnast. At the 1961 Maccabiah Games he won eight gold medals, one silver medal, and one bronze medal. At the 1964 NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships he won the all-around competition, the horizontal bars, and the parallel bars, and at the 1964 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) National Gymnastics Competition he was the champion in the horizontal bars. He competed in eight events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Mitch Gaylord (USA) In June 2007, Gaylord was named the seventh-best U.S. gymnast of all time by Yahoo Sports. In the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, Gaylord led the gold-medal-winning U.S. men's gymnastics team, becoming the first American gymnast to score a perfect 10.00 in the Olympics. He also won the silver medal in vault, the bronze in parallel bars and the bronze in the rings. In addition to his individual accolades, Gaylord led the US men's gymnastics team to a gold medal in the team competition for the first and only time in Olympics history
Steve Gluckstein (USA) is a former American 2012 Olympian in gymnastic trampoline.[1] He is a six-time National Men's US Trampoline Champion, five-time National US Men's Synchronized Trampoline Champion, and a six-time World Team member. In 2009, he and his partner Logan Dooley were the first gymnastic trampolinists in Team USA history to win a gold medal at a World Cup Series event
Pavel Gofman (Ukraine/Israel) Pavel Gofman is an USSR-born Israeli gymnast. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics where he finished nineteenth in the all around final.
Maria Gorokhovskaya (USSR/Israel) was a gymnast who competed for the Soviet Union at the 1952 Olympic Games. Gorokhovskaya holds the record for the most medal won by a female in a single Olympics with seven.
Agnes Keleti (Hungary) (born Ágnes Klein) is a retired Hungarian-Israeli Olympic and world champion artistic gymnast and coach. She is the oldest living Olympic champion and medalist, reaching her 100th birthday January 9, 2021. While representing Hungary at the Summer Olympics, she won 10 Olympic medals including five gold medals, three silver medals, and two bronze medals, and is considered to be one of the most successful Jewish Olympic athletes of all time. Keleti holds more Olympic medals than any other Jew, except Mark Spitz.She was the most successful athlete at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Katya Pizezky (Ukraine/Israel) Katya Pisetsky is an Israeli rhythmic gymnast who competed in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic games. Pisetsky competed in the rhythmic gymnastics event at the 2004 Olympic Games and placed 16th in the Women's Individual All-Around Qualification.
Aly Raisman (USA) born Alexandra Rose Raisman is a retired American artistic gymnast and two-time Olympian. She was captain of both the 2012 "Fierce Five" and 2016 "Final Five" U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics teams, which won their respective team competitions.
At the 2012 Olympics in London, she won gold medals in the team and floor competitions, as well as the bronze medal on the balance beam, making her the most decorated American gymnast at the Games. At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won a gold medal in the team event, making her and teammate Gabby Douglas the only Americans with back-to-back team gold medals. Raisman also won silver medals in the individual all-around and for floor exercise. She is the third-most decorated American gymnast in Olympic history behind Shannon Miller and Simone Biles, with six Olympic medals.
Kerri Strug (USA) Kerri Allyson Strug Fischer is a retired American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona. She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and is best remembered for performing the vault despite having injured her ankle[2] and for subsequently being carried to the podium by her coach, Béla Károlyi.
Julie Zetlin (USA) Julie Ashley Zetlin is a retired elite rhythmic gymnast. She is the 2010 U.S. Senior National Champion in Rhythmic Gymnastics, and represented the United States at the 2012 Olympic Games.
· Linoy Ashram, Israel, Olympic gold (rhythmic gymnast) and 6x World Championships silver
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· Ruth Abeles, Israel, Olympian (artistic gymnast)[307]
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· Estella Agsteribbe, Netherlands, Olympic champion (team combined exercises), killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz[67]
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· Lilia Akhaimova, Russia, Olympic gold artistic (team all-around) gymnast at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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· Yana Batyrshina, Russia, Olympic silver (rhythmic gymnast)[67]
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· Alyssa Beckerman, US, national champion (balance beam), 2 silver & bronze (uneven bars)[19]
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· Valery Belenky, USSR/Azerbaijan/Germany, Olympic champion (team combined exercises), bronze (individual combined exercises)[67]
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· Ralli Ben-Yehuda, Israel, Olympian (artistic gymnast)[308]
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· Moran Buzovski, Israel, Olympian (rhythmic gymnast)
· Elka de Levie, Netherlands, Olympic champion (team combined exercises)[67]
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· Artem Dolgopyat, Ukrainian-born Israeli, Olympic gold (artistic gymnast - floor) for Israel[309]
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· Olena Dvornichenko, Israel/Ukraine, rhythmic gymnastics[310]
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· Philip Erenberg, US, Olympic silver (Indian clubs)[67]
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· Alfred Flatow, Germany, 3x Olympic champion (parallel bars, team parallel bars, team horizontal bar), silver (horizontal bar)[2]
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· Gustav Felix Flatow, Germany, 2x Olympic champion (team parallel bars, team horizontal bar)[2]
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· Samu Fóti, Hungary, Olympic silver (team combined exercises)[67]
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· Limor Friedman, Israel, Olympian (artistic gymnast)[311]
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· Mitch Gaylord, US, Olympic champion (team), silver (vaulting), 2x bronze (rings, parallel bars)[2]
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· Imre Gellért, Hungary, Olympic silver (team combined exercises)[67]
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· Nancy Goldsmith, Israel, Olympian (artistic gymnast)[312]
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· Maria Gorokhovskaya, USSR, Olympic 2x champion (all-around individual exercises, team combined exercises), 5x silver (vault, asymmetrical bars, balance beam, floor exercise, team exercises with portable apparatus)[2]
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· Abie Grossfeld, US, 8x Pan American champion, 7x Maccabiah champion, coach[2]
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· George Gulack, US, Olympic champion (flying rings)[2]
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· Miriam Kara, Israel, Olympian (artistic gymnast)[314]
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· Ágnes Keleti, Hungary, 5x Olympic champion (2x floor exercise, asymmetrical bars, floor exercise, balance beam, team exercise with portable apparatus), 3x silver (2x team combined exercises, individual combined exercises), 2x bronze (asymmetrical bars, team exercises with portable apparatus), International Gymnastics Hall of Fame[2][230]
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· Alice Kertész, Hungary, Olympic champion (team, portable apparatus), silver (team); world silver (team)[177]
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· Natalia Laschenova, USSR, Olympic champion (team)[67]
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· Ya'akov Levi, Israel, Olympian (artistic gymnast)[315]
· Tatiana Lysenko, USSR/Ukraine, 2x Olympic champion (balance beam, team combined exercises), bronze (horse vault)[230]
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· Valeria Maksyuta, Ukraine/Israel, multiple World Cup medalist, Israeli Olympian, Maccabiah Games champion[316][317][318]
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· Phoebe Mills, US, Olympic bronze (balance beam)[19]
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· Abraham Mok, Netherlands,[319]
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· Yohanan Moyal, Israel, Olympian (artistic gymnast)[320]
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· Helena Nordheim, Netherlands, Olympic champion (team combined exercises), killed by the Nazis in Sobibór[67]
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· Mikhail Perelman, USSR, Olympic champion (team combined exercises)[67]
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· Katerina Pisetsky, Israel/Ukraine, rhythmic gymnast[321]
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· Anna Polak, Netherlands, Olympic champion (team combined exercises), killed by the Nazis in Sobibór[67]
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· Vladimir Portnoi, USSR, Olympic silver (team combined exercises) and bronze (long horse vault)[67]
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· Aly Raisman, US, Olympic champion (artistic gymnast; floor 2012, team combined exercises: 2012, 2016), silver (all-around, floor: 2016), bronze (balance beam); world gold (team: 2011, 2015), silver (team: 2010), and bronze (floor exercise: 2011)[322]
· Yulia Raskina, Belarus, Olympic silver (rhythmic gymnastics)[67]
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· Neta Rivkin, Israel, world bronze (rhythmic gymnastics; hoop)[323]
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· Monica Rokhman, US, Olympian (rhythmic gymnast)[324]
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· Maria Savenkov, Israel/Russia, rhythmic gymnast[310]
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· Alexander Shatilov, Uzbekistan/Israel, world bronze, European champion (artistic gymnast; floor exercise)[325]
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· Yelena Shushunova, USSR, Olympic 2x champion (all-around, team), silver (balance beam), bronze (uneven bars)[230]
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· Judijke Simons, Netherlands, Olympic champion (team combined exercises), killed by the Nazis in Sobibór[67]
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· Kerri Strug, US, Olympic champion (team combined exercises), bronze (team combined exercises)[2]
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· Victoria Veinberg Filanovsky, Russia/Israel, youth Olympian (rhythmic gymnast) for Israel
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· Rahel Vigdozchik, Israel, rhythmic gymnast[326]
· Veronika Vitenberg, Israel/Belarus, rhythmic gymnast[326]
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· Julie Zetlin, US, 2010 US champion, rhythmic gymnastics[327]
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· Valerie Zimring, US, 1984 US National Champion, 5x Maccabiah Champion (rhythmic gymnastics)[328]
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· Lihie Raz, US/Israel, European Championship bronze (floor), Olympian artistic gymnast for Israel
Handball
David Fink
Fink’s father was obsessed with handball since the first time he played 47 years ago and he wanted to share his passion for the sport with David. His mother was Pennsylvania state handball champion twice. Fink’s fourth birthday party was a handball tournament with all his friends.
Champions know how to win, even at a young age. David Fink is the only junior player to have won his age group in every code of handball. As a teenager, he qualified, played on and was ranked on the Pro Tour. At age 39, Fink is a high ranking pro.
Paul Haber was an American one, three, and four wall National Handball champion. Haber is credited with being the first player to use the ceiling offensively and did so very effectively. He was inducted into the United States Handball Association Hall of Fame in 1983. He won countless American and Canadian handball titles. Haber took an overlooked sport and turned it into a publicized one. Haber appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in 1970. Numerous magazines featured him including Sports Illustrated, Ace, and Argosy. It was not just Haber's ability on the court that caught national media attention. Haber would clobber the straight arrow handball players and then wind up in jail or a hospital after days of being on a bender with various females. He supported himself giving handball and golf lessons, playing cards, pool, board games, and betting on his handball matches. Haber lived day-to-day forgetting each night's escapades and capers in anticipation of the next one. He lived a lifestyle that would have ruined most professional athletes.
Vic Hershkowitz
He was a dominant handball player who played from the early 1940s to the early 1960s. He won 23 amateur national titles. He was a New York City fireman. His accomplishments include winning forty national and international handball titles, including nine consecutive Three-Wall Singles Championships.
Jimmy Jacobs
He grew up in a single-parent family in Los Angeles. He dropped out of high school before completing his education but excelled at numerous sports, including baseball, basketball, football and handball. He was credited with running 100 yards (91 m) in under ten seconds, winning a skeet shooting championship and shooting rounds of golf in the low 70s. Jacobs was offered the chance to try out for the US Olympic basketball team but declined in order to focus on handball. He was drafted into the army during the Korean War and was awarded a Purple Heart.
In four-wall handball, Jacobs won his first American singles championship in 1955, defeating Vic Hershkowitz in the final in Chicago. In total, he won six American singles championships and six doubles championships (partnering Marty Decatur). He was additionally a three time national champion in three-wall handball. Between 1955 and 1969, he won every national handball competition match he played in. In 1966, Robert H. Boyle of Sports Illustrated wrote: "Jacobs is generally hailed as the finest player of all time. Indeed, there are those who say Jacobs is the best athlete, regardless of sport, in the country." In 1970, he was recognised by the US Handball Association as the "Greatest Handball Player of the Generation".
James Leslie
American handball player, In four-wall handball, Jacobs won his first American singles championship in 1955, defeating Vic Hershkowitz in the final in Chicago. In total, he won six American singles championships and six doubles championships (partnering Marty Decatur). He was additionally a three time national champion in three-wall handball.[5] Between 1955 and 1969, he won every national handball competition match he played in
Fred Lewis
Lewis was born in The Bronx, New York Both of his parents played handball.
Lewis is a six-time U.S. Handball Association National Four-Wall Handball Singles Champion (1972, 1974–76, 1978, and 1981).[1][2] He is also a three-time National Three-Wall Singles Champion (1974, 1977, and 1978).[1][7] He was named 1970s "Handball Player of the Decade" by the National Handball Association. He made the finals of the National Open championship 14 consecutive years, and won 16 titles as a professional.
Judo
· Yael Arad, Israel, 1992 Olympic silver (light-middleweight)[392]
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· Mark Berger, Canada, Olympic silver & bronze (heavyweight)[67]
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· Robert Berland, US, Olympic silver (middleweight)[67]
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· Ārons Bogoļubovs, USSR, Olympic bronze (lightweight)[67]
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· James Bregman, US, Olympic bronze (middleweight)[67]
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· Aaron Cohen, US
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· Yarden Gerbi, Israel, 2016 Olympic bronze (under 63 kg)[393]
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· Felipe Kitadai, Brazil, Olympic bronze (60 kg)[394]
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· Daniela Krukower, Israel/Argentina, world champion (under 63 kg)[19]
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· Charlee Minkin, US, Pan American women's champion (half lightweight division; under 52 kg)[19]
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· Sagi Muki, Israel, 2015 & 2018 European champion, 2019 World Champion (under 81 kg)
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· Shira Rishony, Israel, 2020 Olympic 5th place (-48 kg)
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· Israel national judo team, Israel, 2020 Olympics bronze for mixed teams (men and women)
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· Or Sasson, Israel, 2016 Olympic bronze medalist
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· Alice Schlesinger, Israel-Britain, World Judo Championships bronze; European junior champion (under 63 kg)[202]
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· Oren Smadja, Israel, 1992 Olympic bronze medalist (lightweight)
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· Ehud Vaks, Israel (half-lightweight)[395]
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· Gal Yekutiel, Israel, European bronze medalist 2x Olympian[
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· Arik Ze'evi, Israel, 2004 Olympic bronze medalist (100 kg)
Lacrosse
· Max Seibald, US (Philadelphia Wings)
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Mixed martial arts
· Paul Craig, Scotland, UFC Light Heavyweight
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· Sarah Avraham, Indian-born Israeli kickboxer, 2014 Women's World Thai-Boxing Champion; 57–63 kilos (125–140 pounds) weight class
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· Cyril Benzaquen, France, World Champion of Kickboxing, World Champion of Muaythai, light heavyweight
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· Patrick Bittan, France, first french to medal at an International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation event (IBJJF Pans 1999), multiple times Champion of France of BJJ. Belgium International Grappling Champion (2000), US Open 2nd Place (1998 blue), São Paulo State Championship 2nd Place (2003), Pan American IBJJF 3rd Place (1999 blue) [399]
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· Nili Block, Israeli world champion kickboxer and Muay Thai fighter; 60 kg (132 pound) weight class[400]
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· Johann Fauveau, France, World Champion of Kickboxing, super welterweight[401]
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· Fabrice Fourment, France, Vis-European Champion of Kyokushinkaï Karate (2000), winner of the first Scandinavian Open (1998), winner of the North American Championship (2003), seven times France's Champion, heavyweight[402]
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· Ilya Grad, Israel, lightweight Muay Thai boxing[403] champion[404]
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· Emily Kagan, US, UFC fighter in the women's strawweight division; competed in season 20 of The Ultimate Fighter
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· Noad "Neo" Lahat, Israel, featherweight MMA (UFC)[405]
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· Ido Pariente, Israel, lightweight Pankration World Champion
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· Yulia Sachkov, Israel, world champion kickboxer
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· Rory Singer, US, middleweight fighter from The Ultimate Fighter 3[406]
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Motorsport
· Brandon Bernstein, US, drag racing driver and son of Kenny Bernstein
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· Kenny Bernstein, US, drag racing driver and former NASCAR owner[3]
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· François Cevert (born "Albert Goldenberg", Christian mother), France, Formula One driver[19]
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· Thomas Erdos, Brazil, Sports Cars, LMP2 champion 2007, 2010, British GT Champion 2002, British Formula Renault champion 1990
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· Kyle Krisiloff, US, NASCAR and USAC driver
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· Steve Krisiloff, US, USAC and CART Championship Car driver[407]
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· Eric Lichtenstein, Argentina, GP3 driver[408]
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· Paul Newman, US, motorsport team owner and driver; actor[409]
· Chanoch Nissany, Israel, Formula One test-driver,[19] father of Roy Nissany
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· Roy Nissany, Israel-France, Formula V8 3.5, son of Chanoch Nissany
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· Peter Revson, US, Formula One driver[169]
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· Mauri Rose, US, Indy driver, Indy 500 winner[230]
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· Eddie Sachs, US, 8x starter of the Indianapolis 500, 1957–64, taking pole position in 1960 and 1961, with his best finish being second in 1961[410]
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· Ian Scheckter, South Africa, Formula One driver (brother of Jody Scheckter and uncle of Tomas Scheckter)[19]
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· Jody Scheckter, South Africa, Formula One driver, 1979 Formula One World Drivers champion (brother of Ian Scheckter and father of Tomas Scheckter)[2]
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· Tomas Scheckter, South Africa, Indy Racing League driver[19]
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· Lance Stroll, Canada-Belgium, Formula One driver, second youngest podium finisher in F1 history, and youngest rookie podium. Son of Lawrence Stroll
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· Sheila van Damm, British rally driver[169]
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· Lionel Van Praag, Australian motorcycle Speedway World Champion