Jud Simons

Jud Simons
— Gymnast —
1928 Summer Olympic gold medal gymnastic team. Jud Simons is third from the right.
Personal information
Country represented	Netherlands
Born	(1904-08-20)20 August 1904 The Hague
Died	20 March 1943(1943-03-20) (aged 38) Sobibor extermination camp
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Medal record Women's gymnastics Representing the  Netherlands Summer Olympics 1928 Amsterdam Team

Judikje^[1] "Jud" Simons (20 August 1904 – 20 March 1943) was a Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

In 1928 she won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team.

She was born in The Hague and died in Sobibor extermination camp. She was deported and murdered together with her husband Bernard and their five-year-old daughter Sonja and their three-year-old son Leon.

Notes

Further reading

• Brouwer, Erik (2010). "De Moord op een Gouden Turnploeg". In van Liempt, Ad; Luitzen, Jan. Sport in de Oorlog (in Dutch). L.J. Veen. pp. 29–58. ISBN 978-90-204-1936-8. 

External links

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Olympic Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Women's Team All-Around
1928 Netherlands 1936 Germany 1948 Czechoslovakia 1952 Soviet Union 1956 Soviet Union 1960 Soviet Union 1964 Soviet Union 1968 Soviet Union 1972 Soviet Union 1976 Soviet Union 1980 Soviet Union 1984 Romania 1988 Soviet Union 1992 Unified Team 1996 United States 2000 Romania 2004 Romania 2008 China 2012 United States 2016 United States
1928:  Netherlands (NED), Estella Agsteribbe, Jacomina van den Berg, Alida van den Bos, Petronella Burgerhof, Elka de Levie, Helena Nordheim, Ans Polak, Petronella van Randwijk, Hendrika van Rumt, Jud Simons, Jacoba Stelma, Anna van der Vegt