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The 1981 11th Maccabiah Games brought 3,450 athletes to Israel from 30 nations. The 30-sports menu included rugby union,〔Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Complete Book of Rugby'' (Seven Oaks Ltd, 1997 ISBN 1-86200-013-1), p.68〕 sailing and softball for the first time. New facilities for squash, wrestling, karate, and judo were introduced. Mitch Gaylord, gymnastics, won 6 gold medals; he later went on to win Olympic gold. Also, tennis players Brad Gilbert and Andrea Leand earned gold medals,() 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. David Blatt won a gold medal with Team USA in basketball. 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. ==Participating Communities== The number in parentheses indicates the number of participants that community contributed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1981 Maccabiah Games」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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