1981 Maccabiah Games
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| Opening city | Ramat Gan |
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| Stadium | National Stadium |
The 1981 11th Maccabiah Games brought 3,450 athletes to Israel from 30 nations.
The 30-sports menu included sailing and softball for the first time.
New facilities for squash, wrestling, karate, and judo were introduced.
Mitch Gaylord, gymnastics, won 5 gold medals; he later went on to win Olympic gold.
Also, tennis players Brad Gilbert and Andrea Leand earned gold medals,[1] and Shlomo Glickstein won the men's singles in tennis, the first Israeli to win a Maccabiah tennis championship.
Mark Berger, who three years later was to go on to win a silver medal in the Olympics, won a gold medal in judo.
In track and field, James Espir of Great Britain, who earlier that year had run a mile in 3 minutes 56.7 seconds, thereby becoming the fastest Jewish miler ever, won the 1500 metres and 5000 metres gold medals on successive days.
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