SubscribeBoxing’s Max Baer, four more elected to International Jewish Sports Hall Of Fame
World heavyweight boxing champion Max Baer, who kayo’d reigning title-holder Primo Carnera to capture the heavyweight crown in June 1934, is one five sport figures elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame for 2010.
The announcement is made by IJSHOF chairs Alan Sherman of Potomac, MD, and R. Stephen Rubin of London.
Baer is joined by two-time Major League baseball all-star Sid Gordon, a 13-year big league power-hitter with a lifetime .283 batting average and 202 home runs for the Giants, Braves and Pirates during the 1940s-50s; and South African tennis star Ilana Kloss, ranked the World’s #1 Doubles player in 1976, and currently CEO of World Team Tennis.
Also honored are champion judoka Yael Arad, whose Judo silver medal at the 1992 Olympic Games (61kg middleweight) registered Israel’s first-ever Olympic medal; and Holland-born Canadian figure skating coach Ellen Burka, who’s innovative techniques and ground-breaking choreography produced 26 Canadian Olympic and World Championships medalists.
Since 1979, 342 athletes and sportsmen/women, representing 24 countries, have been elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, located on the campus of the Wingate Institute, Israel’s National Sport Center, in Netanya.
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