Michal Barel Hein (מיכל היין; born February 11, 1968) is an Israeli former Olympic
windsurfer
Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing ga ...
.
She was born in
Rehovot
Rehovot ( he, רְחוֹבוֹת ''Rəḥōvōt'', ar, رحوڤوت ''Reḥūfūt'') is a city in the Central District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of .
Etymology
Israel Belkind, founder of the Bilu movement, ...
, Israel.
Windsurfing career
Her club was
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Hapoel Tel Aviv ( he, הפועל תל אביב) is a sports club in Israel, founded in the 1920s, and part of the Hapoel association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, suc ...
, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Hein finished 10th at the World Championships in February 2000.
Hein competed for
Israel at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Israel competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 39 competitors, 29 men and 10 women, took part in 43 events in 9 sports. The delegation of 39 athletes was the biggest at the time, and third-biggest in history, after 2008 with ...
, at 32 years of age, in
Sydney, Australia
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, in
Sailing--Women's Women's Mistral One Design/Windsurfer, and came in 14th.
When she competed in the Olympics she was tall and weighed
.
References
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Living people
Israeli windsurfers
Olympic sailors of Israel
Israeli female sailors (sport)
1968 births
People from Rehovot
Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
Female windsurfers
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