Leah Goldstein

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Leah Goldstein Road cycling
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Date of birth 4th February 1969
nation IsraelIsrael Israel Canada
CanadaCanada 
discipline Street
End of career 2010
Last updated: June 9, 2019

Leah Goldstein (born February 4, 1969 in Vancouver ) is a former Canadian - Israeli cyclist and kickboxer .

Origin and family

Leah Goldstein was born in Vancouver to Ahoova and Sam Goldstein. Ahoova Goldstein grew up in Gulja (now Yining) in China . Her family had been relocated there from Russia in the 1920s. In the 1950s, with the advent of communism , the family lost their belongings. She then fled to Israel, where Ahoova became a member of the national athletics team. Sam Goldstein grew up in Poland as a child of Holocaust survivors. Traumatized by the events of World War II, his parents decided to make a fresh start in Israel. It was there that Leah Goldstein's parents met. Although neither spoke English, they moved to Vancouver, where Leah Goldstein was born. As a child, she was teased about her poor English and lisp; her right leg was also shorter and weaker than the left. Because of a supposed learning disability, she was enrolled in a special class.

At the age of 17 Leah Goldstein became the bantam world champion in kickboxing. She then joined the Israeli military and became one of the few female instructors; she taught the Israeli self-defense system Krav Maga . She later moved to a special unit to fight terrorism and violent crime .

Athletic career

The work for the military began to put Goldstein under psychological strain, so that she increasingly sought balance in sport. First she became an Israeli duathlon champion. After nine years in the military, she left her service and moved back to Canada, where she was a member of the national cycling team. In 2000 and 2001 she was third in the Canadian time trial championship, and in 2002 she was runner-up.

In 2004 Leah Goldstein received a scholarship to take part in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens for Israel . The start did not take place because she broke her hand in a bike race. From 2007 to 2009 she was Israeli road champion three times in a row, in 2007 and 2009 also in the individual time trial; In 2008 she won the US Tour of the Gila . She achieved these successes although she was hit by bad luck. She fell at the Cascade Cycling Classic in 2005 , had another fall in 2008 and was hit by a car shortly before the start of the Redlands Bicycle Classic in 2010 . She then ended her elite cycling career, but made a successful start in 2011 at the Race Across America and 2012 at the Race Across the West . In 2014, at the age of 45, she took part in the Canadian Time Trial Championship again and came in 23rd.

Leah Goldstein now works as a writer, speaker and trainer. She lives in Vernon , British Columbia (as of 2019).

successes

2007
  • MaillotIsrael.PNG Israeli champion - road race, individual time trial
2008
2009
  • MaillotIsrael.PNG Israeli champion - road race, individual time trial
2011
2012

Publications

  • No Limits: The Powerful True Story of Leah Goldstein-World Champion Kickboxer, Ultra Endurance Cyclist, Israeli Undercover Police Officer . No Finish Line Living Adventures Ltd, 2016, ISBN 978-0-9953284-0-2 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The nine lives of Leah Goldstein. In: Boulder Weekly. August 20, 2015, accessed June 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Leah Goldstein. In: leahgoldstein.com. Retrieved June 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kirsten Frattini: Goldstein hit by car during Redlands warm-up. In: cyclingnews.com. March 27, 2010, accessed June 10, 2019 .


personal data
SURNAME Goldstein, Leah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli cyclist and kickboxer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver