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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 December 1950 |
| Died | 1 October 2018 (aged 67) |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Israel |
| Sport | Paralympic athletics Wheelchair basketball Wheelchair fencing |
| Disability | Polio |
Medal record | |
Shoshana Sharabi (1950 - 2018) was an Israeli Paralympic athlete, wheelchair fencer and wheelchair basketball player. She won three gold medals, in foil and in wheelchair basketball. [7]
Shoshana Sharabi is left disabled by polio, which she contracted as a child.
At the 1968 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal in Women's Novices Foil, and Women's Wheelchair Basketball. She won a bronze medal in Women's Club Throw D, and silver medal in Women's 4 x 40 meters Open. She also competed in Women's Slalom C. [8]
At the 1972 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal with the women's foil team and a silver medal in Women's Foil Individual.
Wheelchair basketball has been contested at the Summer Paralympic Games since the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome.
Ora Anlen was an Israeli Paralympic champion.
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.
Australia competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Games significantly expanded in 1968 when compared to previous years, as did the Australian team and the events included in the Games. Mexico City were originally to host the 1968 Paralympics, however, they were moved to Tel Aviv in Israel.
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.
Argentina competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel. The team finished ninth in the medal table and won a total of 30 medals; 10 gold, 10 silver and 10 bronze.
Japan competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv, Israel from November 4 to 13, 1968. The team finished sixteenth of the twenty-eight competing nations in the medal table and won a total of twelve medals; two gold, two silver and eight bronze. Forty-eight Japanese athletes took part in the Games; forty-one men and seven women.
Daphne Jean Hilton was an Australian Paralympic competitor. She was the first Australian woman to compete at the Paralympic Games. She won fourteen medals in three Paralympics in archery, athletics, fencing, swimming, and table tennis from 1960 to 1968.
Caz Walton OBE is a British retired wheelchair athlete and former Great Britain Paralympic team manager. She was a multi-disciplinary gold medallist who competed in numerous Paralympic Games. Between 1964 and 1976 she won medals in athletics, swimming, table tennis, and fencing. She took a break from the Paralympics, entering the basketball and fencing competitions in 1988. In total Walton won ten gold medals during her Paralympic career, making her one of the most successful British athletes of all time. Walton should also have been awarded gold in the 1968 Tel Aviv Women's Pentathlon incomplete but, due to a miscalculation of her total score which went unnoticed at the time, she was given third place and a bronze medal.
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.
Ruth Lamsbach is a German paralympic athlete and multiple medalist at the Paralympic Games.
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.
Malka Halfon-Potashnik is an Israeli Paralympic champion. She won four gold, four silver, and one bronze medal.
Margalit Peretz is a former Israeli wheelchair fencer and wheelchair basketball player. She won nine Paralympic medals, one individual medal in wheelchair fencing, three medals as a member of the women's wheelchair basketball team and five medals as a member of the women's wheelchair fencing team.
Rachel Tassa is a former Israeli wheelchair fencer and wheelchair basketball player. She won 11 Paralympic medals: two individual medals in wheelchair fencing, two medals in swimming and seven medals as a member of Israel's women's team in wheelchair basketball and wheelchair fencing.
Geula Siri is a former Israeli athlete who has won 7 Paralympic medals.
Neora Even-Zahav is a former Israeli Paralympic competitor in para-athletics, archery and wheelchair basketball.
Bella Zurnée Weinstock is a former Israeli Paralympic athlete, wheelchair fencer and para swimmer. She later served as city councilor in Ra'anana from 2003 to 2013.
