Jud Simons

Jud Simons
1928 Summer Olympic gold medal gymnastic team. Jud Simons is third from the right.
Personal information
Born(1904-08-20)20 August 1904
The Hague
Died20 March 1943(1943-03-20) (aged 38)
Sobibor extermination camp
Gymnastics career
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Country represented Netherlands
Medal record
Women's gymnastics
Representing the  Netherlands
Summer Olympics
Gold medal – first place 1928 Amsterdam Team

Judikje[1] "Jud" Simons (20 August 1904 – 20 March 1943) was a Dutch Jewish gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

In 1928 she was chosen as a reserve member of the Dutch gymnastics team and won the gold medal with her teammates. The team was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.[2]

She was born in The Hague and was murdered in Sobibor extermination camp together with her husband Bernard, their five-year-old daughter Sonja and their three-year-old son Leon.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Her name is sometimes also spelt Judikeje.
  2. ^ "International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame: Netherlands 1928 Olympic Champions".
  3. ^ Paauw, Ruud (2018). "Triumph and tragedy: Dutch 1928 women's gymnastics team" (PDF). Journal of Olympic History. 1: 32–35.

Further reading

  • Brouwer, Erik (2010). "De Moord op een Gouden Turnploeg". In van Liempt, Ad; Luitzen, Jan (eds.). Sport in de Oorlog (in Dutch). L.J. Veen. pp. 29–58. ISBN 978-90-204-1936-8.
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