1957 Maccabiah Games
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| Opening city | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Nations participating | 20 |
| Athletes participating | 980 |
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| Officially opened by | Yitzhak Ben Zvi |
| Stadium | Ramat Gan Stadium |
Twenty countries sent 980 athletes to the 1957 5th Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletics competition similar to the Olympics.
The presence of a large number of world-class Jewish athletes elevated the quality of competition. Plans were set to build a Maccabiah Village to house athletes for Games of the future.
Mexico sent its first contingent of athletes.
In boxing, Abraham Rozenberg, a concentration camp survivor, won the heavyweight division gold medal for the second Games in a row. 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. Abie Grossfeld of the United States dominated the Games, winning 7 golds in 7 gymnastics events: AA, R, PH, FX, HB, PB, & V.
Angela Buxton of Great Britain, who the year prior had won the doubles title at Wimbledon, won the gold medal in women's singles.
In fencing, Byron Krieger, 2-time Pan American Games gold medal winner, won individual GOLD in SABRE and individual BRONZE in FOIL.
In weightlifting, Isaac Berger became the first athlete to establish a world record in the State of Israel, pressing 258 pounds (117 kg) in Featherweight competition for the US, a year after winning an Olympic gold medal.
Ben Helfgott, a concentration camp survivor, won the weightlifting gold medal in the lightweight class for Great Britain for the third Games in a row.
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The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that community contributed.
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