Philip Richard Erenberg (March 16, 1909 – February 2, 1992) was an American

gymnast Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoul ...

and Olympic

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ist.

Personal life

Born in the

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, Erenberg was Jewish. He arrived in the United States at the age of three. He had one brother and one sister. His father worked at the Florsheim Shoe Company. His family lived in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

. In 1923 the family moved to Los Angeles, and he attended Roosevelt High School. He attended

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

. Erenberg received a medical degree from the

University of California, Irvine School of Medicine The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine (UC Irvine School of Medicine or UCI School of Medicine) is an LCME accredited medical school, co-located in Orange County's cities of Irvine on the University of California, Irvine campus ...

in 1934. He practiced

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and then internal medicine in Los Angeles. He had a daughter and a son.

Clubs

Erenberg was given a membership in and competed for the

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. He competed at the

1932 Summer Olympics The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held duri ...

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, where Erenberg received a

in gymnastics in

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."1932 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Gymnastics"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on March 31, 2008)
– ''CNN; Sports Illustrated'' (Retrieved March 31, 2008) In 2010 Erenberg was inducted into the

Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame The Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, in Beverly Hills, California, is a hall of fame dedicated to honoring American Jewish athletes, other sports personalities, and teams from Southern California who have distinguished themselve ...

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1909 births 1992 deaths American male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1932 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United States in gymnastics Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Jewish Ukrainian sportspeople Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Jews and Judaism in Chicago Sportspeople from Chicago Gymnasts from Los Angeles UCLA Bruins men's gymnasts University of California, Irvine alumni American obstetricians American internists {{US-Olympic-medalist-stub

Personal life

Clubs

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