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Evan Bernstein

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Nationality
  
Israel  United States

Weight
  
205 lb (93 kg)

Style
  
Greco-Roman

Height
  
6-3.5 (193 cm)

Sport
  
Wrestling

Born
  
April 16, 1960 (age 56) (
1960-04-16
)

College teams
  
Richland College, University of Minnesota

Evan Bernstein (אבן ברנשטיין; born April 16, 1960) is an Israeli-American former Olympic wrestler for Israel.

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Personal life

Bernstein was born in the United States to Stanley and Jacqueline Bernstein, and is Jewish. He graduated from Richardson High School in 1978. He then wrestled for Richland College, in Dallas, Texas, and for the University of Minnesota (graduating in 1984). He moved from the United States to Israel in 1984, and served in the Israel Defense Forces. He then moved to North Texas in the United States with his family in 1999, and now lives in Allen, Texas.

His wife is Ora Bernstein. His son Ophir Bernstein had a high school record in wrestling of 147-19. His son then wrestled for Brown University, where he was an NCAA All-American and holds the school records in career wins with 119, and career falls with 38. Ophir represented the United States at the 2013 Maccabiah Games at 84 kg, winning the gold medal in freestyle wrestling and the silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling. An Israeli-born dual American-Israeli citizen, he also won a silver medal for Israel at the 2013 Junior Wrestling World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria, in the 84 kg weight class of the men's freestyle division. In 2014, representing Israel he won a bronze medal in the 86 kg freestyle at the 11th World University Wrestling Championship in Pécs, Hungary. Bernstein's son Eden had a high school wrestling record of 154-34, won a silver medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games for Team USA, and wrestled for the University of Central Oklahoma. Bernstein also has a daughter, Hadar.

Wrestling career

Bernstein was 6-3.5 (193 cm) tall and weighed 205 lbs (93 kg) when he competed in the Olympics.

He competed in wrestling in the 1981 Maccabiah Games (for the US), and in the 1985 Maccabiah Games (for Israel). At the 1985 World Wrestling Championships in Norway Bernstein placed 8th, and at the 1986 World Wrestling Championships in Hungary he placed 7th.

Bernstein competed for Israel at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul at the age of 28 in Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling in the Light-Heavyweight (90 kg) category. Bernstein beat Kamal Ibrahim of Egypt in the first round by decision, lost to Jean-Francois Court of France in the second round by passivity, received a bye in the next round, and lost to Franz Pitschmann of Austria in the fourth round by passivity.

References

Evan Bernstein Wikipedia