Maya Calé-Benzoor (also "Kalle-Bentzur"; מיה קלה-בנצור; born September 5, 1958) is an Israeli former Olympic runner and long jumper."Benzoor, Maya"
/ref> Calé-Benzoor set the Israeli indoor long jump record (6.13 metres). She was a medalist at the

1973 Maccabiah Games The 9th Maccabiah Games, which were held from July 9 to 19, 1973, were opened in Ramat Gan Stadium, Israel. Spain and Costa Rica made their debuts in the Games. A total of 1,800 athletes competed on behalf of 27 countries in 20 branches of sport, i ...

, and at the

1981 Maccabiah Games The 11th Maccabiah Games brought 3,450 athletes to Israel from 35 nations. The Opening Ceremony was held on July 7, 1981, before a crowd of 53,000 and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Ramat Gan Stadium, with 3,500 Jewish athletes parading ...

she won the

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in the long jump. She won a

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in the triple jump at the European Masters’ Championships in 2001. She was born in Israel, and is Jewish.

Education

Calé-Benzoor has a B.Ed. in Physical Education from

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(1984), where she set the school outdoor long jump record at 20' 6" (6.10 metres), NAU records in both the women's indoor and outdoor long (20' 6".00) and triple jumps (41' 3".75), and 40' 5".00 in the indoor triple jump. She placed third in the triple jump at the

1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships The 1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested May 28−June 2, 1984 at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon in order to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women' ...

meet. Calé-Benzoor was an NCAA

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in 1984. In 1989 she was inducted into the NAU Athletic Hall of Fame. She also has a Diploma in

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Studies from Wingate Institute in Israel (1981), a master's degree in Sport Injury Rehabilitation from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia (1990), and a PhD in Welfare and Health Studies from Haifa University.

Running and long jump career

Her personal bests were 12.19 in the 100 metre dash (in 1977), and 6.27 metres in the long jump (in 1984). She set the Israeli indoor long jump record (6.13 metres). Calé-Benzoor was a medalist at the

. At the

she won the

in the long jump. Calé-Benzoor competed for Israel at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California at the age of 25. In the Women's 100 metres she came in 6th in Heat 5 with a time of 12.30 (missing qualifying for the next round by .04 seconds), and in the Women's Long Jump she came in 16th with a jump of 6.07 metres (missing qualifying for the next round by 0.12 metres). She won a

in the triple jump at the European Masters’ Championships in 2001.

Career after the Olympics

Calé-Benzoor worked as a physiotherapist and clinic manager in Phoenix, Arizona, and Atlanta, Georgia, and became the First Head of the Women's Sports Committee at the Maccabi Israel Center. She was the Deputy Manager of the Physiotherapy Department at Wingate Institute, and is now the Director of Sports Injury Rehabilitation at Wingate Institute and a lecturer in the Physiotherapy Program at Haifa University.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cale-Benzoor, Maya Jewish female athletes (track and field) Maccabiah Games medalists in athletics Competitors at the 1981 Maccabiah Games Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Israeli female long jumpers 1958 births Israeli female sprinters Olympic athletes of Israel Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel Competitors at the 1973 Maccabiah Games Northern Arizona Lumberjacks women's track and field athletes Wingate Institute alumni Georgia State University alumni University of Haifa alumni American physiotherapists