Moran Samuel
Moran Samuel 
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| birthday | 24th April 1982 (age 38) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Karmiel , Israel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| size | 170 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National squad | since Israel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Moran Samuel ( Hebrew מורן סמואל; Born April 24, 1982 in Karmiel , Israel ) is an Israeli Paralympic basketball player and rower .
Life
Samuel grew up in Karmiel where she started playing basketball. She completed her military service with the Israeli Air Force as part of a support program for athletes, in which, in addition to active military service, they can take part in international competitions. After her military service, she played in the Israeli women's national basketball team. She suffered a spinal cord attack in 2006 and has been paralyzed ever since. After recovering from spinal cord infarction, she graduated from Haifa University and became a physiotherapist . Samuel is married and has one son.
Athletic career
basketball
With the Israeli national team, she qualified for the 2011 European wheelchair basketball championship in Nazareth . In the same year she became the only woman on the team at Beit HaLohem in Tel Aviv . In 2013 she took part with the Israeli national team at the European wheelchair basketball championship in Frankfurt am Main . While her team finished seventh in the end, she was voted into the “All Star Team” as one of the five best European players.
rowing
At the suggestion of her partner, with whom she is now married and who is also a rower, she began to train rowing in 2010 and represented Israel at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London , where she finished fifth. In the same year she won a World Cup race in the single in Gavirate , Italy. Since the local organizers no recording of the Israeli national anthem Hatikva had asked Samuel to a microphone and sang them unceremoniously itself. 2015 she won a World Cup race in Lake Varese , while the incumbent at that time world champion, the Norwegian Birgit Skarstein hit, . At the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette , France, she won gold in the women's AS one ahead of Rachel Morris from Great Britain and Birgit Skarstein. So she had also qualified for participation in the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . At the 2017 and 2018 World Championships, she had to admit defeat to Birgit Skarstein and won silver each time. In 2019 she won bronze at the World Championships in Ottensheim .
Web links
- Moran Samuel at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moran Samuel . Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Moran Samuel: Paralympic rower, part-time basketball champ . Jerusalem Post
- ↑ a b Tales of tragedy, trauma and inspiration behind Israel's Paralympic medal hopes . Times of Israel
- ↑ Sport Week: Samuel balances motherhood, training
- ↑ Moran Samuel . WIZO
- ^ Llegó el final del Campeonato de Europa BSR. ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Champion rower can sing, too . Times of Israel
- ↑ Israeli paralympic rower Moran Samuel wins gold medal at World Cup - Israel News - Jerusalem Post. Retrieved May 14, 2019 .
- ^ Moran Samuel named Female Athlete of the Year at the Israeli Paralympic Committee annual awards. January 12, 2016, accessed May 14, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Samuel, Moran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karmiel |