Neora Even-Zahav
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| National team | Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 October 1947 Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Disability | Poliomyelitis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Neora Even-Zahav (Hebrew: נאורה אבן-זהב, born 11 October 1947) is a former Israeli Paralympic competitor in para-athletics, archery and wheelchair basketball.[6]
Biography[edit]
Even-Zhava, née Helsinger, was born in Bucharest and emigrated with her family to Mandatory Palestine at the age of four months, arriving only after detention at the Cyprus internment camps. At the age of eight she contracted polio and in 1961 she joined the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled.[5]
At the Stoke Mandeville Games of 1965 she won a gold medal in wheelchair dash tournament.[7] She also won two bronze medals for wheelchair fencing and for para swimming.[5]
As a member of the national women's wheelchair basketball team she took part in the 1968 Summer Paralympics, the 1984 Summer Paralympics and the 1988 Summer Paralympics.[5] In 1968 she also competed in archery and in para-athletics, winning two silver medals and one bronze medal in various wheelchair race events (wheelchair dash, slalom and in wheelchair relay race alongside Batia Mishani, Shoshana Sharabi and Geula Siri).[6]
Family[edit]
Her father Moshe Helsinger was a player of Maccabi București.[5]
In 1967 she married Paralympic athlete Israel Even-Zahav.
References[edit]
- ^ "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Womens 4X40 M Open". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-10-20.
- ^ "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Womens 60 M Wheelchair B". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
- ^ "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Womens Slalom B". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
- ^ "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Wheelchair Basketball - Womens Tournament". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- ^ a b c d e "נאורה אבן זהב". Retrieved 2023-12-17.
- ^ a b "Neora Even-Sahav". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
- ^ "הספורטאים הנכים זכו במדליות, הבקר, 3 באוגוסט 1965". JPress (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2023-12-17.
External links[edit]
- Living people
- 1947 births
- Romanian Jews in Israel
- Israeli female archers
- Israeli women's wheelchair basketball players
- Paralympic athletes for Israel
- Paralympic archers for Israel
- Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Israel
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Archers at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Israel
- Paralympic silver medalists for Israel
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Israel
- Polio survivors