From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Isaac Berger
Isaac Berger
Medal record Maccabiah Games
Men’s weightlifting Competing in the Fifth Maccabiah Games in 1957,[12][13]
the year after winning his Olympic gold medal, Berger
Competitor for the United States became the first athlete to establish a world record in the
Olympic Games State of Israel, pressing 258 pounds (117 kg) in Feather-
weight competition.
Gold 1956 Melbourne -60 kg
Silver 1960 Rome -60 kg Halls of fame
Silver 1964 Tokyo -60 kg In 1965, Berger was elected to the United States
Weightlifters Hall of Fame.
Isaac "Ike" Berger (born November 16, 1936, in In 1980 he was inducted into the International Jewish
Jerusalem) was an Olympic weightlifter for the United Sports Hall of Fame.
States.[2] He holds 23 world weightlifting records, and is
a 12-time United States national titleholder.[3][4] Weightlifting achievements
• Olympic champion (1956).
Early life •
•
Silver medalist in Olympic Games (1960 and 1964).
Senior world champion (1958 and 1961).
Berger, who is Jewish,[1] came to the United States and • Silver medalist in Senior World Championships
become a naturalized citizen as a teenager. Berger is the (1959, 1963, and 1964).
son of a rabbi, and himself an ordained cantor. • Bronze medalist in Senior World Championships
(1957).
Career •
•
Pan Am Games champion (1959 and 1963).
Senior national champion (1955–1961, and 1964).
He was the first featherweight in history to lift more than • Set eight world records during career.
800 pounds, and the first to press double his body weight.
He won the U. S. featherweight championship seven
times, from 1955 through 1961 and in 1964.[5] See also
He was world champion in 1958 and 1961, finishing • List of select Jewish weightlifters
second in 1957, 1959, and 1963.[6]
Olympics References
He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics. In [1] [1]
the Featherweight class at the 1956 Olympic Games in
Melbourne, Berger won the gold medal with lifts totaling External links
352.5 kilograms (777 lb.).[7][8] Four years later he won a
silver medal at the Rome Olympiad (362.5 kg, 799 lb).[9] • Isaac Berger – Hall of Fame at Weightlifting
In the 1964 Tokyo Games he again won the Featherweight Exchange
class silver at 382.5 kg (843 lb).[10] His 1964 Olympic • Hickock sports bio
record of 152.5 kg (336 lb) in the clean and jerk, at a • Jewish Sports bio
bodyweight of 130 pounds (59 kg), made him pound-for- • Jews in Sports
pound the strongest man in the world, a record that • [14]
stood for nine years. Persondata
Name Berger, Isaac
Pan American Games Alternative names
He was the Pan-American Games featherweight champi-
Short description
on in 1959 and 1963.[11]
Date of birth November 16, 1936
Place of birth
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Date of death Place of death
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Categories:
• 1936 births
• Living people
• People from Jerusalem
• American weightlifters
• Olympic weightlifters of the United States
• Weightlifters at the 1956 Summer Olympics
• Maccabiah weightlifters of the United States
• Weightlifters at the 1957 Maccabiah Games
• Weightlifters at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• Weightlifters at the 1964 Summer Olympics
• Olympic gold medalists for the United States
• Olympic silver medalists for the United States
• Jewish weightlifters
• Maccabiah gold medalists
• Olympic medalists in weightlifting
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