Nimrod Mashiah (also spelled Nimrod Mashiach; Hebrew: נמרוד משיח, born July 10, 1988) is an Israeli

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 ...

.(12 August 2013
"נמרוד משיח – שייט, גלישת רוח"
/ref> In 2001, Mashiah received the

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as an Outstanding Young Actor in an International Commercial for his role as a diver/actor in a television commercial. Mashiah was the 2009 RS:X Windsurfing World Championships

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, and won the

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at both the 2010 and 2011 World Championships. In September 2010, he was ranked # 1 in the world in men's windsurfing. In September 2014, Israel qualified to have a male RS:X windsurfer represent

Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics Israel competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. It was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics. The Olympic Committee of Israel confirmed a team of 47 athletes, 22 men and 25 wom ...

, with Mashiah winning the quota place. He is Jewish, and lives in

Mikhmoret Mikhmoret ( he, מִכְמֹרֶת, מכמורת, ''lit.'' Fishing net) is a moshav in central Israel. Located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea around nine kilometres north of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional ...

, Israel.

Acting career

In 2001, at the

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, Mashiah received the

as an Outstanding Young Actor in an International Commercial for his role as a diver/actor in a

Cheltenham & Gloucester Cheltenham & Gloucester plc (C&G) was a mortgage and savings provider in the United Kingdom, a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group. C&G specialised in mortgage loan, mortgages and savings products. Previously, C&G was a building society, the Chelt ...

television commercial "The Pearl".

Windsurfing career

Gal Fridman Gal Fridman (or Friedman, he, גל פרידמן; born September 16, 1975) is an Israeli windsurfer and Israel's first Olympic Games, Olympic gold medalist. Fridman won a bronze medal, Bronze Medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta 1996 Summer ...

, an Israeli former windsurfer and Olympic gold medalist, was Mashiah's coach until 2013, when he took on as his new coach Tom Korzits, the brother of Israeli four-time world champion windsurfer

Lee Korzits Lee (Lee-El) Korzits ( he, לי (לִי-אֵל) קורזיץ; nicknamed Leeka; born 25 March 1984) is an Israeli Windsurfing, windsurfer who has won four Windsurfing World Championships titles (in List of World Championships medalists in sailing ...

. In 2001 Mashiah won the

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in Thailand and was the Youth World Champion in the 15-year-old age group in windsurfing, in 2003 he won the

at the Youth European Championship, and in 2004 he won the

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at the Youth World Championship. In 2009, at the RS:X Windsurfing World Championships in

Weymouth, England Weymouth is a seaside town in Dorset, on the English Channel coast of England. Situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey, south of the county town of Dorchester, Weymouth had a population of 53,427 in 2021. It is the third l ...

, Mashiah won the silver medal, behind Britain's 2004 Olympic bronze medalist

Nick Dempsey Nicholas Charles Dempsey (born 13 August 1980 in Norwich) is a British windsurfer, who lives in Poole, Dorset. He became the first man to win three Olympics medals in windsurfing when he won silver in the 2016 Rio Olympics, adding to a silver ...

. In September 2010, at the age of 22, at the RS:X Windsurfing World Championships in Kerteminde, Denmark, he won the bronze medal. That month he was ranked #1 in the world in men's windsurfing. In December 2010, the

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named him the athlete of the year. Mashiah received a cash prize of

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40,000. In September 2011, at the RS:X European Championship in

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, he finished eighth. In December 2011, at the RS:X World Windsurfing Championships in

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, Mashiah came in third behind Dorian van Rijsselberghe of the Netherlands and

Piotr Myszka Piotr Myszka (born 25 July 1981) is a Polish 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 t ...

of Poland and won a bronze medal. 2008 Olympic bronze medal winner Shahar Zubari took Israel's berth in men's windsurfing at the

2012 London Olympic Games The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

. Each country was allowed to send only one windsurfer to compete in the Olympics. In March 2013, at the RS:X World Windsurfing Championships in Buzios, Brazil, Mashiah finished sixth. In September 2014, Israel qualified to have a male RS:X windsurfer represent

, with Mashiah winning the quota place. As of 27 April 2015, Mashiah was the top-ranked Israeli male windsurfer.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mashiah, Nimrod 1988 births Living people Israeli windsurfers Israeli Jews Jewish sailors (sport) People from Eilat People from Central District (Israel) Israeli people of Dutch-Jewish descent

Acting career

Windsurfing career

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