Boris Djerassi

Boris Djerassi, known as Dov, is a former hammer thrower and strongman, born on February 3, 1952, in Haifa, Israel, and based in the United States. He studied at New York University and then Northeastern University, where he won All America honors in 1975 and defeated the defending champion for the NCAA hammer title that year by three inches. In 1975 he also won the Penn Relays, the IC4A Championships and the AAU Championships, the first athlete to do that in one year. He won hammer throw gold at the 1977 and 1981 Maccabiah Games. Selected for the 1980 Olympic team, he could not compete because of the United States boycott, and received a Congressional Gold Medal. In 1978 he was invited to the World's Strongest Man contest. He later became a coach and a chiropractor.