Nina Gorodetzky

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Nina Gorodetzky
Parabadminton

Personal information
Type of disability (class): WH1
Nationality: IsraelIsrael Israel
Birthday: March 2, 1981
last change: 2020-02-18

Nina Gorodetzky (born March 2, 1981 ) is an Israeli badminton player . She starts in Parabadminton in the starting class WH1 in singles, doubles and mixed and is preparing for participation in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo .

Athletic career

Nina Gorodetzky played tennis in her youth. She started swimming after a car accident, but another back injury forced her to give up the sport. She then turned to parabadminton .

At the Badminton World Championship for the disabled in Bangkok in 2007 , she won silver in doubles with Elke Rongen . At the European Championships in Dortmund in 2008 she was individual European champion. In 2011 in Guatemala City she won bronze in mixed with Shimon Shalom . At the EM 2012 in Dortmund she won bronze in singles after losing to Karin Suter-Erath in the semi-final . In mixed she was also defeated in the semifinals with her partner Schalom Kalvanski to the duo Thomas Wandschneider and Suter-Erath. In 2014 at the EM in Murcia she was eliminated in the semifinals against Valeska Knoblauch . In doubles with Lilia Prokofewa , she is also defeated in the semifinals to Sonja Häsler and Karin Suter-Erath. Also at the EM in Beek 2016 Goretzky was eliminated in the individual semi-finals against Valeska Knoblauch.

The European Badminton Championships for the disabled in Rodez in 2018 brought Gorodetzky and her partner Amir Levi gold in mixed, with a three-set victory over the Russian Konstantin Afinogenow and his Turkish partner Emine Seçkin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Hugo Moussou: Nina Gorodetzky ready for challenges. In: badmintoneurope.com. September 28, 2018, accessed February 18, 2020 .
  2. a b Your sport statistics, one place. In: bwfpara.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved February 18, 2020 .