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Merlin Miller ( he, מרלין מילר; born 29 November 1950) is an Israeli former
wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing a non-disabled sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations (of ...
player,
wheelchair tennis Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis: athletes use specially designed wheelchairs, a ...
player and para swimmer who competed in the
Summer Paralympic Games The Summer Paralympics also known as the Games of the Paralympiad, are an international multi-sport event where athletes with physical disabilities compete. This includes athletes with mobility disabilities, amputations, blindness, and cerebral ...
multiple times.


Biography

Miller was born in
Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...
,
Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
and emigrated with her parents to Israel when she was one month old. At nine months she contracted
polio Poliomyelitis, commonly shortened to polio, is an infectious disease caused by the poliovirus. Approximately 70% of cases are asymptomatic; mild symptoms which can occur include sore throat and fever; in a proportion of cases more severe s ...
and in 1966 she began practicing sports at the
Israel Sports Center for the Disabled The Israel Sports Center for the Disabled (ISCD; ) is an Israeli institution operated by ILAN aimed at rehabilitation of physically disabled people. History The ISCD was established in 1960 in Ramat Gan by ILAN activist Betty Dubiner. The land lo ...
. At the
1968 Summer Paralympics The 1968 Summer Paralympics ( he, המשחקים הפאראלימפיים בקיץ 1968) were the third Paralympic Games to be held. Organised under the guidance of the International Stoke Mandeville Games Federation (ISMGF), they were known as th ...
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 Paralympics )( es, Deporte Sin Límites) , nations = 82 (BCN)75 (MAD) , athletes = 3,020 (BCN)1,600 (MAD) , opened_by = Queen Sofía , opening = 3 September (BCN)15 September (MAD) , closing = 14 September (BCN)22 September (MAD) , even ...
in wheelchair tennis. In the women's singles tournament she was eliminated in the eighth final and in the doubles tournament she competed with Tikva Aharoni and reached the quarterfinal. From 1972 to 1999 Miller worked for
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's economic department and in her retirement she is devoted to
papier-mâché upright=1.3, Mardi Gras papier-mâché masks, Haiti upright=1.3, Papier-mâché Catrinas, traditional figures for day of the dead celebrations in Mexico Papier-mâché (, ; , literally "chewed paper") is a composite material consisting of p ...
.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Mali 1950 births Living people Israeli women's wheelchair basketball players Paralympic wheelchair basketball players for Israel Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball players at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 1980 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Wheelchair basketball players at the 1988 Summer Paralympics Paralympic swimmers for Israel Israeli female swimmers Swimmers at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Israeli female tennis players Wheelchair tennis players Paralympic wheelchair tennis players for Israel Wheelchair tennis players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1968 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1980 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