Isaac "Ike" Berger (1936 to 2022) was an American weightlifter who competed in the featherweight division. Born in Jerusalem to a rabbi, he moved with his family to New York in 1949 at the age of thirteen and became a naturalized American citizen in December 1955, having started lifting weights around 1952 at a gym in Brooklyn. He represented the United States at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics, winning one gold and two silver medals, and held eight world records, four official and four unofficial. He won the United States national title eight times and was world featherweight champion in 1958 and 1961. At the 1957 Maccabiah Games he set a world record on Israeli soil.
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was an American weightlifter
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competed for the United States at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics
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competed for the United States at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics
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competed for the United States at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics
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He twice won the world championships and the Pan American Games
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