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Rogel Nachum (or Nahum, he, רוגל נחום; born 21 May 1967) is a retired

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

er, whose personal best was 17.20 meters, achieved in June 1992 in

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. Nachum participated in three Olympic Games:

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1992,

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1996, Sydney 2000 where he carried the Israeli flag at opening ceremony. At the

1989 Maccabiah Games The 13th Maccabiah Games brought 4,500 athletes to Israel from 45 nations. Jewish athletes from Hungary participated for the first time since World War II, Jewish athletes from Russia had been permitted, by their country, to play for the first ti ...

, he won the triple jump in 55' 0 1/4", and was then recruited for

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by U.S. T&F coach Steve Miller. In 1990 he held the Israeli records in three events:

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

2.18 m',

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

7.73 m' and

16.89 m'. Rogel's records are: * Triple Jump: 17.20 m' (17.31 m' wind 2.3) * Long Jump: 7.96 m' * High Jump: 2.18 m' He is the current coach of Israel's Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko.

Achievements

Tests

Lifting

* Clean: 140 kg * Hang clean 145 kg * Snatch: 97.5 kg *

Half squat Squatting is a versatile posture where the weight of the body is on the feet but the knees and hips are bent. In contrast, sitting involves taking the weight of the body, at least in part, on the buttocks against the ground or a horizontal object. ...

: 270 kg (on a bench)

Jumping

* Standing long jump: 3.39 m' * Standing triple jump: 10.57 m' * Standing 5 steps: 18.58 m' * Standing 10 steps: 38.70 m' * Standing high jump: 1.70 m' * High jump with 2 legs: 2.03 m' * Standing steps for 100 m': 26.5 steps

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