1953 Maccabiah Games
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| Opening city | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Nations participating | 22 |
| Athletes participating | 890 |
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| Stadium | Ramat Gan Stadium |
Eight hundred ninety athletes representing 21 countries attended the 1953 4th Maccabiah Games.
Israeli President Itzhak Ben-Zvi opened the Games.
First-time entries included Australia, Brazil, and Chile.
In gymnastics, Abie Grossfeld of the United States won 6 gold medals.[1]
In tennis, Anita Kanter of the US won gold medals in women's doubles and mixed doubles, and the silver medal in women's singles. Angela Buxton of Great Britain, who three years later was to win the doubles tite at Wimbledon, won the gold medal in women's singles. On the men's side, Grant Golden, who was ranked # 2 in the US that year, captured three gold medals in the men's singles (over South African Sid Levy), the men's doubles with partner Pablo Eisenberg, and the mixed doubles with Kanter.
In boxing, Abraham Rozenberg, a concentration camp survivor, won the heavyweight division gold medal. Rozenberg fighting for France lived to that time in Germany, but Germany didn't have a team in that maccabiah, so Rozenberg fought for France.
Ben Helfgott, a concentration camp survivor, won the weightlifting gold medal in the lightweight class for Great Britain for the second Games in a row.
In fencing, a gold medal was won by 3-time Pan American Games gold medalist Allan Kwartler in foil.
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The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that community contributed.
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