Barbara Weinstein

{{Short description|American diver}}

{{About|the American diver|the historian|Barbara Weinstein (historian)}}

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Barbara Weinstein is an American diver from Cincinnati, United States.

At the 1973 Maccabiah Games in Israel, she won a gold medal in three metre diving.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/18/archives/us-squad-takes-goldmedal-race-captures-9-of-10-wrestling-finals-for.html|title=U.S. SQUAD TAKES GOLD‐MEDAL RACE Captures 9 of 10 Wrestling Finals for Total of 76 as Maccabiah Games End|date=July 18, 1973|via=NYTimes.com}}

She won a gold medal in platform diving at the 1979 Pan American Games{{cite web |url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panamdiving.shtml |title=Pan American Games: Diving Medalists |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231015622/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panamdiving.shtml |archivedate=December 31, 2008 |website=HickokSports.com |accessdate=December 6, 2008 |url-status=dead}} and a bronze medal at the 1977 Summer Universiade.{{cite web |url=http://hickoksports.com/history/univdiving.shtml |title=Universiade: Diving Medalists |website=HickokSports.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927010717/http://hickoksports.com/history/univdiving.shtml |archivedate=September 27, 2012}}

She qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.{{cite book|last1=Caroccioli|first1=Tom|last2=Caroccioli|first2=Jerry|title=Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games|publisher=New Chapter Press|location=Highland Park, IL|isbn=978-0942257403|pages=243–253}}