Maayan Davidovich ( he, מעין דוידוביץ'; born May 21, 1988) is an Israeli Olympic

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Biography

Davidovich is Jewish, and her hometown is

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, Israel. She competes with the club

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. She started sailing at the age of five, and surfing at 13. Her parents enjoy watersports, and her brothers and twin sister were all windsurfing champions. She made her international competitive debut in the 1999 Optimist European Championships, in Greece. In July 2005, she came in fourth in the

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– Women 35th Volvo Youth Sailing

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(ISAF) World Championship, in

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, Korea. In July 2006, she won a

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at the RS:X – Women Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship, in Weymouth, Great Britain. In 2007, she finished 15th in the European Championships. She competed on behalf of

Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics Israel competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. This was Israel's fourteenth participation in the Summer Olympics. Israel sent 43 athletes to compete in Beijing, the largest Israeli delegation in Olympic history, with the previous ...

at the age of 19 in

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, China, in the women's sailboard windsurfing event, and came in 10th. In June 2009, she came in seventh in the RS:X – Women European Championship, in Tel Aviv, Israel. In May 2011, she came in fourth in the RS:X – Women Delta Lloyd Regatta, in

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, The Netherlands. In both 2013 (when she was ranked 10th in the world in December) and 2014 (when she was ranked 14th in the world), she was the ISAF Worlds RS:X bronze medalist. She represented

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, coming in 7th place in the RS:X.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Davidovich, Maayan 1988 births Living people Israeli windsurfers Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – RS:X Olympic sailors of Israel Israeli female sailors (sport) Jewish sailors (sport) Israeli Jews People from Herzliya Israeli twins Twin sportspeople