 When Kushnir competed in the Olympics he was 5-8 (173 cm) tall and weighed 163 lbs (74 kg).Kushnir won the gold medal in the broad jump (also known as the long jump) at the 1953 Maccabiah Games.He competed for Israel at the 1956 Summer Olympics, at the age of 25, in Melbourne, Australia in the Men's Long Jump, jumped a distance of 6.89 meters, but did not qualify for the finals, and came in 25th.