Isaac Berger

Biografía

Isaac “Ike” Berger was born on 16 November 1936 in Jerusalem in British Mandatory Palestine. Raised in a Hasidic family as the son of a rabbi, he moved to the United States in 1949 and became a U.S. Berger competed in three Olympic Games, winning gold in 1956 and silver in 1960 and 1964. He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1980 and died on 4 June 2022. American featherweight weightlifter who won Olympic gold in 1956 and silver medals in 1960 and 1964. In Jewish World Records, Isaac Berger is connected to the record “Most Olympic Medals Won by a Jewish Weightlifter,” based on the stored achievement of 3 Olympic weightlifting medals (1 gold, 2 silver).

Enlaces públicos

• iwf.sport
• jewishsportshof.org
• jta.org