Games of the XVII Maccabiah
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Opening city	Ramat Gan
Nations participating	55
Athletes participating	7,700
Events	100
Opening ceremony	July 11, 2005
Closing ceremony	July 21, 2005
Officially opened by	Gal Friedman
Stadium	National Stadium
Debuting countries	Macedonia  Luxembourg

The 2005 Maccabiah Games (Hebrew: המכביה ה-17 ישראל תשס"ה‎) were the 17th incarnation of the 'Jewish Olympics.' They attracted the largest attendance of any Maccabiah Games to date, including more than 900 representatives from the United States, almost 500 from Australia, and more than 2,000 from Israel, bringing the total participants to more than 7,700 from 55 countries.

Israel ended the games at the top of the medal count with 228 gold medals. The United States was a distant second with 71 gold medals, while Russia came in third with 15.

Contents 1 Selected results 2 Sports 3 Participating Communities 4 Medal count 5 Footnotes 6 External links

[edit] Selected results

Vadim Gutzeit of Ukraine, an Olympic gold medal winner in team sabre, won gold medals in individual and team sabre. Two-time Olympic gold medal winner Sergei Charikov of Russia won the silver medal in sabre.

In women's tennis, Sharon Fichman of Canada won the gold medal at the age of 14, and also won a bronze medal in the women’s doubles, and a silver medal in mixed doubles.

In fencing, two-time Pan American Games gold medalist Dan Kellner won the silver medal in foil for the US.

In women's basketball, Shay Doron, who two years later signed with the WNBA New York Liberty, led the USA to a 5-0 record and a gold medal, and was selected Maccabiah MVP.

In squash, Brian L. Roberts, the Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, won a gold medal with the US team in his fourth Maccabiah.

In soccer, Jonathan Bornstein, Benny Feilhaber, and Adam Jaffe led the men's open soccer to their best finish ever with a silver medal. The US lost to gold medal winner Israel, which played with their U-20 National Team.

In karate the US Men's open team took several gold and silver medals. The youth team took one silver and one bronze.

[edit] Sports

The sports featured at the 2005 Maccabiah Games are listed below.

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Athletics (track and field) Badminton Baseball Basketball Cricket Fencing Football Golf Gymnastics

Hockey Judo Lawn Bowling Rowing Rugby Softball Squash Swimming

Taekwondo Ten pin Bowling Tennis Triathlon Volleyball Water polo Wrestling

[edit] Participating Communities

Not all Jewish communities participated in the 2005 Maccabiah, as has been the case since 1950^[1]. Jewish communities in Arab countries (Morocco, Tunisia, etc.), as well as the community in Iran, did not send delegations. The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that community contributed.

Argentina Australia (500) Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bolivia Bulgaria Brazil Canada Chile

China Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Georgia

Germany Greece Guatemala Hungary India Israel (2,000) Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg

Republic of Macedonia Mexico Moldova Netherlands New Zealand Panama Paraguay Peru Poland Portugal

Romania Russia Serbia Singapore Slovakia Spain South Africa Sweden Switzerland Turkey

Ukraine United Kingdom United States (900) Uruguay Venezuela

[edit] Medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Israel	226	192	171	589
2	United States	71	81	67	219
3	Russia	15	18	18	51
4	South Africa	12	8	8	28
5	Canada	11	15	21	47
6	Ukraine	5	2	3	10
7	Venezuela	4	3	2	9
8	Brazil	4	1	5	10
9	Australia	3	7	25	35
10	Argentina	3	4	6	13

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

Official

• Maccabiah XVII

Unofficial

• Summaries of each of the Games
• Jewish Virtual Library
• "The 17th Maccabiah Games - July 2005"
• “The Miracle in Israel”

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