Arieh Batun-Kleinstub
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Arieh Batun-Kleinstub (also "-Naveh"; אריה קלינשטוב-נווה; born 26 January 1933) is an Israeli former Olympic
high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...
er.


High jump career

He competed for
Israel at the 1952 Summer Olympics Israel competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 25 competitors, 22 men and 3 women, took part in 17 events in 5 sports. Results by event Athletics Basketball Diving ...
in
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, at the age of 19. He came in 35th in the Men's High Jump with a jump of 1.70 metres. His personal best in the high jump was 1.88 metres in 1953. He competed for Israel and won gold medals in both the
1953 Maccabiah Games Eight hundred ninety athletes representing 23 countries competed in the 1953 4th Maccabiah Games, held September 20 to 29, in 18 branches of sports. Israeli President Itzhak Ben-Zvi opened the Games at Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv District, in f ...
and the
1957 Maccabiah Games Twenty-one countries sent 980 athletes to compete in the 1957 5th Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletics competition similar to the Olympics. The opening ceremony on September 15, 1957, was held in Ramat Gan Stadium, with athletes parad ...
in the high jump.


References

Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics 1933 births Israeli male high jumpers Olympic athletes of Israel Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel Jewish male athletes (track and field) Maccabiah Games medalists in athletics Competitors at the 1953 Maccabiah Games Competitors at the 1957 Maccabiah Games {{Israel-athletics-bio-stub