Yoav Ra'anan (; born 15 January 1928) is an Israeli former Olympic diver.
He was born in
Cairo, Egypt
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.
Diving career
Ra'anan competed for
Israel at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Israel competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 25 competitors, 22 men and 3 women, took part in 17 events in 5 sports.
Results by event
Athletics
Basketball
Diving
...
, at the age of 24, in
Helsinki, coming in 9th in Men's
Springboard and 24th in Men's
Platform.
It was Israel's first appearance in the
Olympic Games.
He won a gold medal in high diving at the
1953 Maccabiah Games
Eight hundred ninety athletes representing 23 countries competed in the 1953 4th Maccabiah Games, held September 20 to 29, in 18 branches of sports.
Israeli President Itzhak Ben-Zvi opened the Games at Ramat Gan Stadium in Tel Aviv District, in f ...
.
Ra'anan participated for
Israel at the 1954 Asian Games in
Manila, Philippines, in diving, winning the
gold medal
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Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
in 3 m springboard and the
silver medal
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in 10 m platform. He competed again for
Israel at the 1956 Summer Olympics, at the age of 28, in Melbourne, coming in 22nd in Men's Springboard.
Ra'anan was one of only three competitors representing Israel in those Games, as they took place weeks after the
Sinai War
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression ( ar, العدوان الثلاثي, Al-ʿUdwān aṯ-Ṯulāṯiyy) in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel,Also known as the Suez War or 1956 Wa ...
.
References
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1928 births
Possibly living people
Olympic divers for Israel
Divers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Asian Games gold medalists for Israel
Asian Games silver medalists for Israel
Sportspeople from Cairo
Israeli male divers
Divers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Divers at the 1954 Asian Games
Egyptian emigrants to Israel
Asian Games medalists in diving
Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games
Maccabiah Games competitors by sport
Competitors at the 1953 Maccabiah Games
Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel
20th-century Israeli sportspeople
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