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Wheelchair Basketball At The 1968 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball at the 1968 Summer Paralympics consisted of men's and women's team events. The original wheelchair basketball classification system in 1966 had 5 classes: A, B, C, D, S. Each class was worth so many points. A was worth 1, B and C were worth 2. D and S were worth 3 points. A team could have a maximum of 12 points on the floor. This system was the one in place for the 1968 Summer Paralympics. Class A was for T1-T9 complete. Class B was for T1-T9 incomplete. Class C was for T10-L2 complete. Class D was for T10-L2 incomplete. Class S was for Cauda equina paralysis. Medal summary Source: Paralympic.org See also *Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics Basketball contests at the 1968 Summer Olympics was the seventh appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. It took place at the Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, Mexico from October 13 to October 25, 1968. T ... References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paralympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheelchair Basketball At The 1964 Summer Paralympics
Wheelchair basketball at the 1964 Summer Paralympics consisted of two events for men. Medal summary Source: Paralympic.org See also *Basketball at the 1964 Summer Olympics Basketball contests at the 1964 Summer Olympics was the sixth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event. It took place at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan from October 11 to October 23. The United Stat ... References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paralympics 1964 Summer Paralympics events 1964 1964 in basketball International basketball competitions hosted by Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amnon Weiss
Amnon Weiss ( he, אמנון וייס) is an Israeli businessman and a former paralympic champion. Weiss has a light disability due to polio. In his youth he joined the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled, where he practiced various fields of athletics alongside studies of psychology at Bar Ilan University. Later on he studied law. A member of the Israeli delegation to the Stoke Mandeville Games, Weiss was a gold-medal champion in javelin and shot put. Prior to the 1968 Paralympic Games he won four medals at the 1967 Stoke Mandeville Games (two silver, in shot put and javelin and two bronze, in club throw and discus) and was the national champion in shot put. At the Paralympic Games Weiss was a member of the gold medal-winning wheelchair basketball team and won three medals in athletics. In the early 1970s, Weiss and his wife Daniela were among the founding members of Gush Emunim, later settling in Kedumim where Daniela was elected to head the local council. Their son-in-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geula Siri
Geula Siri ( he, גאולה סירי; born 1949) is a former Israeli athlete who has won 7 Paralympic medals. Biography Siri was born in Sanaa, Yemen and immigrated to Israel with her family in Operation Magic Carpet in 1950. She grew up in Bat Yam and joined the Israel ParaSport Center. Siri participated in the 1968 Summer Paralympics as a competitor in para athletics and a member of the women's wheelchair basketball team. She competed in eight tournaments and won medals in six: gold medal with the basketball team, silver medals in javelin and 4X40 wheelchair race relay, and bronze medals in discus throw, club throw, shot put and novices. Her two other performances were in javelin precision and in wheelchair slalom. Twenty years later, her performance in the 1988 Summer Paralympics gained her top ranks outside the medal table: fourth place in javelin and in pentathlon A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words ''pente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batia Shweiki
Batia Shviki (born 1954) 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. Life In her youth she started training at a sports center for disabled people. She graduated from Hasharon High School and Tel Aviv University. At the 1968 Summer Paralympics, in Tel Aviv, she won a gold medal in the Women's Slalom B, a bronze medal in the 60 meter race competition, and a gold medal in Wheelchair Basketball. She competed in Women's 50 meter Breaststroke Class 3 incomplete, Women's 50 m Backstroke Class 3 incomplete, Women's Discus Throw C, Women's Javelin C, and Women's Club Throw C. At the 1972 Summer Paralympics, in Heidelberg, she competed in the Women's 60 meter Wheelchair 3, and Women's 4 x 40 meter Open. In both competitions she was finished fifth. She finished fourteenth, in the slalom competition. She participated in the women's wheelchair basketball team and was a partner in winning a go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoshana Sharabi
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. Biography 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. At the 1972 Summer Paralympics The 1972 Summer Paralympics (german: Paralympische Sommerspiele 1972), the fourth edition of the Paralympic Games, were held in Heidelberg, West Germany, from 2 to 11 August 1972. The games ended 15 days before the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Mu ..., she won a gold medal with the women's foil team and a silver medal in Women's Foil Individual. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharabi, Shoshana 1951 births 2018 deaths Paralympic athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum
Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum (born 1946) 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. Paralympics Her first appearance came at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, the second ever Paralympics, held in Tokyo, Japan. Zipora competed in five events and won a medal in each; three athletics field events; the women's doubles table tennis, alongside playing partner Mishani; and 50 metre freestyle swimming. She took gold in the women's shot put D, setting a new world record of 5.16 metres. She also won bronze medals in the javelin, discus and table tennis and a silver in her swimming event behind compatriot Mishani. At the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv Rubin-Rosenbaum won a further four gold medals and two silver medals. In the 1972 Games, hosted in Heidelberg, West Germany, she won a gold medal in javelin with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batia Mishani
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. References 1997 deaths Paralympic table tennis players for Israel Paralympic athletes for Israel Israeli female discus throwers Israeli female shot putters Israeli female javelin throwers Female table tennis players Table tennis players at the 1964 Summer Paralympics Table tennis players at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Israel Paralympic silver medalists for Israel Paralympic bronze medalists for Israel Medalists at the 1964 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Paralympic medalists in swimming Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mali Meizan
Merlin Miller ( he, מרלין מילר; born 29 November 1950) is an Israeli former wheelchair basketball player, wheelchair tennis player and para swimmer who competed in the Summer Paralympic Games multiple times. Biography Miller was born in Baghdad, Iraq and emigrated with her parents to Israel when she was one month old. At nine months she contracted polio and in 1966 she began practicing sports at the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled. At the 1968 Summer Paralympics Miller competed in two swimming events and gained medals in both: a silver medal in the women's 3×25 metre individual medley open event and a bronze medal in the women's 50 metre backstroke special class event. As a member of Israel women's national wheelchair basketball team Miller took part in the Paralympic Games in 1968 and again from 1980 to 1988. In these Paralympic games, the women's team won one gold medal (1968) and two silver edals (1980, 1984). Miller competed at the 1992 Summer Paralymp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayala Malhan
Ayala Malchan-Katz (born 1949) 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. Life Katz fell ill at the age of three months with polio which affected her lower limbs. For nine years she was treated in a hospital in Jerusalem and at the age of nine she returned to her parents' home in Rosh HaAyin . As part of her medical rehabilitation, she began competing in disabled sports and participated in swimming, fencing and wheelchair basketball competitions. Katz lives in Petah Tikva and is the head of the municipal framework of the national program "Accessible Community" which works to implement a law of equal rights for people with disabilities. Career At the 1968 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal in women's wheelchair basketball and a bronze medal in Women's Novices Foil. She competed in Women's Shot Put C, Women's Discus Throw C, Women's Javelin C, Women's Novices 60 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malka Halfon
Malka Halfon-Potashnik (born 1949) is an Israeli Paralympic champion. She won four gold, four silver, and one bronze medal. Life 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 )( es, Deporte Sin Límites) , nations = 82 (BCN)75 (MAD) , a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neora Even-Zahav
Neora Even-Zahav ( he, נאורה אבן-זהב, born 11 October 1947) is a former Israeli Paralympic competitor in para-athletics, archery and wheelchair basketball. Biography 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. At the Stoke Mandeville Games of 1965 she won a gold medal in wheelchair dash tournament. She also won two bronze medals for wheelchair fencing and for para swimming. 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. 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 wheelcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Escapa
Michal Escapa ( he, מיכל אסקפה) is a former Israeli Paralympic champion. The wrong reports Since at the dawn of the Paralympic Games there was no precision in reporting the results of the competitions, the Israeli athlete was indicated with the Italian nationality and without prename (and so she is mentioned in the International Paralympic Committee of the Italian Paralympic Committee web sites) for the reports of the Swimming at the 1964 Summer Paralympics where she won two bronze medals, simply reported as Escapa and not as Michal Escapa. However, as can be seen from a 1968 Israeli newspaper reporting an interview with the athlete, she was the same athlete who had won medals in swimming and table tennis in Tokyo 1964. Biography Escapa was born in France, immigrating to Israel as an orphan after the Second World War. At the age of 15 she was affected by polio and paralyzed in both legs and one of her arms. She studied in Jerusalem and was certified as an accountant, mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
