1957 Maccabiah Games
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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, wa
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Female runners at the Games.
Byron Krieger
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Byron Lester Krieger was an American foil, sabre and épée fencer. Krieger represented the United States in the Olympics in 1952 in Helsinki and 1956 in Melbourne, and in the 1951 Pan American Games wh
1957 Maccabiah Games
…for Israel in the Games. In fencing, British Olympian and world champion Allan Jay won three gold medals, fencing foil and epee. American Olympian Byron Krieger, two-time Pan American Games gold-medal winner, won individual gold in sabre and individual bronze in foil. American Olympian Albert Axelrod, who won…
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