Boris Djerassi
Boris (Dov) Djerassi (born February 3, 1952) is a former athlete and strongman, based in the United States but originally from Haifa, Israel. Between 1973-81 Djerassi was ranked in the United States' top-ten hammer throwers, being number one in three different years. He was selected for the Olympic team in 1980, but the United States boycotted the Moscow Games and Djerassi was unable to compete in the Olympics. He also competed at the World's Strongest Man finals. Early life Boris Djerassi was born in Haifa, Israel, and is Jewish. Sporting career Djerassi came to the US in the early 1970s enrolling at New York University. However, when NYU dropped their athletics program in his sophomore year he moved on to Northeastern University in 1973. Known as "Dov" (Hebrew for Bear) he won All America honors in 1975, indoors in the weight and outdoors in the hammer. In the hammer he began dominating the New England, Eastern, and eventually the national collegiate hammer event. In 1975 he defeated defending champion Pete Farmer for the NCAA crown in Provo, Utah in 1975 by just three inches. This proved to be the first of the fabled quadruple sweep, when he went on in