Myer Prinstein
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Other names: Meyer Prinstein
Job / Known for: Track and field athlete
Left traces: Four Olympic gold medals and one silver medal
Born
Date: 1878-12-22
Location: PL Szczuczyn
Died
Date: 1925-03-10 (aged 47)
Resting place: US New York City, New York, Mount Carmel Cemetery
Death Cause: Heart attack
Family
Spouse: Henrietta Northshield
Children: Elsner Prinstein
Parent(s): Jacob Prinstein and Julia Prinstein
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The most decorated Olympic athlete from central New York
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Myer Prinstein was a Polish American track and field athlete who held the world record for the long jump in 1900 and won four gold medals in three Olympic Games for the long jump and triple jump. He was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club in Queens, New York. A 1902 law graduate and track team captain for Syracuse University, after college he became a New York real estate lawyer and businessman while living in Jamaica Plains, Queens. To date, he is the only Olympic track athlete to win both the triple and long jump in the same Olympics, earning the distinction in St. Louis in 1904. He was also the first Jewish athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. He died of a heart attack in 1925 at the age of 46.
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