Malka Halfon-Potashnik (born 1949) is an Israeli Paralympic champion. She won four gold, four silver, and one bronze medal. [11]
Malka Halfon-Potashnik (born 1949) is an Israeli Paralympic champion. She won four gold, four silver, and one bronze medal. [11]
Potashnik was born into the Halfon family and experiences paralysis in her right leg. She began training at a sports center for people with disabilities, and in 1967, she participated in the Stoke Mandeville Games where she won both gold and silver medals.
At the 1968 Summer Paralympics, in Tel Aviv, she won gold medals in Wheelchair Basketball, Women's Club Throw Special class, and Women's Javelin Special class. She won silver medals in Women's Shot Put Special class, Women's 50 meters Breaststroke Special class, Women's swimming medley relay, and Women's Discus Throw Special class.
At the 1972 Summer Paralympics, in Heidelberg, she won a gold medal in Women's Shot Put 5, silver medal in Women's Javelin 5, and bronze medal in Women's Discus Throw 5.
At the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, she competed in Women's Discus Throw THS2, [12] and Women's Shot Put THS2. [13]
In 1968, she married disabled athlete Zvi Potchnik. During the late 1960s, while at the height of her athletic career, she worked as a female operator at the Office Mechanization Center (MLA) of the Ministry of Finance.
Daniel Erasmus is a South African athlete who won twelve medals at the Paralympic Games.
Ora Anlen was an Israeli Paralympic champion.
Jamaica made its Paralympic Games début at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv. It competed again in 1972, was absent in 1976, returned in 1980, and has competed at every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then. Jamaica has never taken part in the Winter Paralympics.
Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum is an Israeli athlete who has won 31 Paralympic medals. She has represented Israel at the Summer Paralympic Games seven times and has competed in athletics, swimming, table tennis, and wheelchair basketball at the Games.
The 1968 Summer Paralympics was an international multi-sport event held in Tel Aviv, Israel, from November 4 to 13, 1968, in which athletes with physical disabilities competed against one another. The Paralympics are run in parallel with the Olympic Games; these Games were originally planned to be held alongside the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, but two years prior to the event the Mexican government pulled out due to technical difficulties. At the time, the event was known as the 17th International Stoke Mandeville Games. The Stoke Mandeville Games were a forerunner to the Paralympics first organized by Sir Ludwig Guttmann in 1948. This medal table ranks the competing National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) by the number of gold medals won by their athletes.
Roberto Marson was an Italian multisport athlete who competed at the Summer Paralympics on four occasions and won a total of 26 Paralympic medals. He lost the use of his legs when a pine tree he was chopping down fell on his back.
Israel was the host nation of the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv. The Israeli team finished third in the medal table and won sixty-two medals: eighteen gold, twenty-one silver and twenty-three bronze. Over 750 athletes from 28 nations took part in the Games; the Israeli team included 53 athletes, 37 men and 15 women.
Ethiopia was one of 28 nations to send a delegation to the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968; two Ethiopian athletes competed, both of them men. Abraham Habte and Negatu each took part in both athletics and table tennis events. The team did not win any medals at these Games and, as of the 2010 Winter Paralympics, no Ethiopian athlete has won a medal at either the Summer or Winter Paralympics.
Lorraine McCoulough-Fry was an Australian Paralympic swimmer, athlete and table tennis player.
Donna Maree Philp, OAM was an Australian Paralympic athlete and wheelchair basketballer, who won six medals at four Paralympics.
Batia Mishani was an Israeli athlete. Between 1964 and 1968, she competed for Team Israel at the Paralympic Games, winning a total of four gold medals, five silver medals, and three bronze medals before retiring.
Waltraud Hagenlocher was a German paralympic athlete. She won fourteen medals.
Shoshana Sharabi was an Israeli Paralympic athlete, wheelchair fencer and wheelchair basketball player. She won three gold medals, in foil and in wheelchair basketball.
Ayala Malchan-Katz is an Israeli Paralympic athlete. Between the years 1968-1988 she participated in six Paralympic competitions and won 13 medals, of which 5 were gold.
Batia Shviki is an Israeli Paralympic athlete. She won two gold medals and one bronze medal. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.
Dina Galíndez was an Argentine paralympic athlete. She specialized in adapted athletics and wheelchair basketball. Galíndez won six medals, with two gold medals, at the 1968 Summer Paralympics, in Tel Aviv, in track and field and wheelchair basketball.
Silvia Cochetti is an Argentine paralympic athlete. Cochetti won thirteen medals, five of them gold, at the Summer Paralympic Games, in swimming, track and field, and wheelchair basketball. In Tel Aviv 1968, she also obtained the world record in shot put in her class, with 7.15 m.
Susana Beatriz Olarte is an Argentine paralympic athlete. Cochetti won eight medals, four of them gold, at the Summer Paralympic Games.
Noemí Tortul is an Argentine paralympic athlete. She won seven medals at the Summer Paralympic Games.
   | This article about a Paralympic medalist of Israel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |