Barmish best Canadian at Maccabiah

Sam Barmish 2014 led the Canadian Wrestling Team at the 2017 Maccabiah Games with a silver medal in freestyle wrestling, the best performance on the Canadian Team.

It was Sam’s first Maccabiah Games, which is one of the largest and most prestigous multi-sport games in the world and is held every four years in Israel, for Jewish athletes all over the world.

Sam is preparing to depart for Abjidan, Ivory Coast, where he will represent Quebec at the 2017 Jeux de la Francophonie. On January 28, 2017, Sam won a bronze medal at the University of Western Ontario Invitational Wrestling Tournament in London, Ontario.