Philip Erenberg

Philip "Phil" Richard Erenberg (March 16, 1909 – February 2, 1992) was an American gymnast and Olympic silver medalist.

Philip Erenberg
Medal record
Representing the  United States
Men’s Gymnastic
Olympic Games
1932 Los Angeles Indian clubs

Personal life

Born in Ukraine, Erenberg was Jewish.[1][2][3][4] He arrived in the United States at the age of three.[5] He had one brother and one sister.[5] His father worked at the Florsheim Shoe Company.[5] His family lived in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.[5] In 1923 the family moved to Los Angeles, and he attended Roosevelt High School.[5]

He attended UCLA.[5] Erenberg received a medical degree from the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine in 1934.[5] He practiced obstetrics and then internal medicine in Los Angeles.[5] He had a daughter and a son.[5]

Clubs

Erenberg was given a membership in and competed for the Los Angeles Athletic Club.[5]

He competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where Erenberg received a silver medal in gymnastics in clubs.[6][7]

In 2010 Erenberg was inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[8]

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See also

References
  1. Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume 15, 1996.
  2. Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History, ISBN 9780881259698, KTAV Publishing House.
  3. "Jewish Olympic Medalists". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
  4. George Eisen. "Jewish Olympic Medalists". www.jewishsports.net.
  5. "An Olympian's oral history Philip R. Erenberg, 1932 Olympic Games, gymnastics". la84.org. 1988.
  6. "1932 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Gymnastics" Archived August 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on March 31, 2008)
  7. "Historic Men's Gymnastics Clubs" – CNN; Sports Illustrated (Retrieved March 31, 2008)
  8. "PHILLIP ERENBERG, MD; Gymnastics - 2011". Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.


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