August, 1999--Three women--professional golf champion Amy Alcott, Olympic gold medalist Keri Strug, and world champion field hockey star Carina Benninga--are among eight athletes and sportsmen elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. The year 2000 class of honorees, representing four countries, is announced jointly by IJSHOF Chairmen Alan Sherman (Potomac, MD) and R. Stephen Rubin (London, England).
Elected Americans are: LPGA star Amy Alcott, recently inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame; gymnast Keri Strug, inspirational member of the 1996 USA gold medal Olympic team; Harry "The Horse" Danning, New York Giants' four-time All-Star catcher, 1938-41; Jack Bernstein, World Junior Lightweight Boxing Champion in 1928; and sportswriter Si Burick, baseball and turf-racing journalist for the Dayton Daily News.
International honorees are: Dutch field hockey star Carina Benninga, gold medalist at the 1984 Olympics and at two World Championships; boxer Lello Efrati, Italian Featherweight Champion put to death at the Auschwitz World War II Nazi concentration camp; and Hungarian official Bela Rajki-Reich, a world figure in international water sports.
Nearly 240 athletes and sportsmen/women have been inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame since 1979. The IJSHOF Museum is located on the campus of the Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sports, in Netanya, Israel. There are 18 affiliated regional Jewish sports halls of fame in the U.S. and Canada.
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