Mikhail Perlman

Mikhail Perlman
 Gymnast 
Full name Mikhail Romanovich Perlman
Alternative name(s) Михаил Романович Перльман
Country represented USSR
Born (1923-03-23)March 23, 1923
Moscow, Russia
Died August 8, 2002(2002-08-08) (aged 79)
Club CSKA Moskva

Mikhail Romanovich Perlman (also Perelman; Russian: Михаил Романович Перльман; 21 March 1923 - 8 August 2002) was a former Soviet gymnast.[1][2]

Perlman was born in Moscow, Russia and was Jewish.[1][3][4][5]

Olympics

Perlman won a gold medal in the men's team in gymnastics at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki for the USSR.[1][5][6] He also took fourth place in the men's pommel horse.[7]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Peter S. Horvitz (2007). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. SP Books. ISBN 1-56171-907-2. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
  2. "Mikhail Perlman Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
  3. Encyclopaedia Judaica. Macmillan. 2007. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
  4. Martin Harry Greenberg (1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. Schocken Books. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
  5. 1 2 Sheldon Kirshner (August 3, 2004). "Jewish medal winners highlighted in Jews and the Olympic Games". The Canadian Jewish News. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
  6. David Wallechinsky (2004). The complete book of the summer Olympics: Athens 2004 edition. Sportclassic Books. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
  7. "Gymnastics - Mikhail Perelman (U.S.S.R.): season totals". The-sports.org. July 21, 1952. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
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