Tami Carmeli ( he, תמי כרמלי, born 1939) is an Israeli lawn bowls player.

Career

Carmeli was a librarian in the Technion when she became blind in 1980. In 1988, she began playing lawn bowls. Carmeli was the national champion in lawn bowls in classification B1 in the years 1991, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008 and 2012. Carmeli took part in the International Blind Bowls Association World Championships of 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005, winning two silver medals (1993, 2005) and one bronze (2001) in the Mixed Pairs tournaments. She also competed in the world championships of the

International Paralympic Committee The International Paralympic Committee (IPC; german: Internationales Paralympisches Komitee) is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement. The IPC organizes the Paralympic Games and fun ...

in the years 1995, 1998 and 2002 and 2011 winning medals in both singles' tournaments and in the mixed pairs events. At the

1996 Atlanta Paralympics The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million. It was the first Paralympic Games where Internatio ...

, Carmeli won bronze in the lawn bowls women's singles LB6 event. In the years 2000 and 2006 she was named "Athlete of the Year" by the Ministry of Culture and Sport. Carmeli was the subject of a 1997 documentary directed by her son and titled ''Mom's First Olympics''.

References

Living people 1939 births Israeli blind people Israeli female bowls players Paralympic bronze medalists for Israel Lawn bowls players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics {{Bowls-bio-stub