Barbara Weinstein is a diver from

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. At the 1973 Maccabiah Games in Israel, she won a gold medal in three metre diving. She won a gold medal in platform diving at the

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and a bronze medal at the

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. She qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a

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instead.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American female divers Maccabiah Games competitors by sport Competitors at the 1973 Maccabiah Games Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel Sportspeople from Michigan Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in diving Divers at the 1979 Pan American Games Universiade medalists in diving Congressional Gold Medal recipients Universiade bronze medalists for the United States Medalists at the 1977 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 1979 Pan American Games 21st-century American women {{US-acrobatics-diving-bio-stub