Shaul Ladany

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Shaul Ladany (center) 1969

Shaul Paul Ladany (born April 2, 1936 in Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is an Israeli engineer, athlete, survivor of the Holocaust and survivor of the 1972 Munich hostage-taking .

Life

Ladany's parents fled to Hungary with their three children in 1941 after the German invasion of Yugoslavia . When the Eichmann Command and his Hungarian helpers deported the Jews from Hungary to the concentration camps in 1944, Ladany's family ended up in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . The family was released with the Kasztner transport at the end of 1944 and came to Switzerland , other family members were gassed in Auschwitz .

Ladany's parents emigrated to Palestine after the war . Shaul trained as an engineer in Israel and earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Columbia University in New York City . He taught at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and had research stays in various countries. He is a retired professor of engineering and holds eight patents, has published over 100 journal articles, and thirteen books. His connection to sport was also manifested in the fact that he was one of the first methods of operations research to be applied in sport, further developing sport management and writing two articles in the Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science .

Ladany began his sporting career as a marathon runner and then became a multiple Israeli national walking champion . He started at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , where he reached 32nd place, and also over 50 km walking in 1972 in Munich , where he landed on September 3, 1972 in 19th place. On the morning of September 5, 1972, he narrowly escaped being taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists , who killed 11 Israeli Olympians.

Ladany also started in international competitions afterwards and is still a participant in sporting meetings on endurance courses even in old age. For 40 years Ladany has held the Israeli national record for walking 50 km and the world record for walking the non-Olympic distance of 50 miles in a time of 7:23:50 hours. He received the Pierre de Coubertin Medal in 2007 . In 2012 he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame .

Ladany lives in Omer (Israel) .

Fonts (selection in translation)

  • Autobiography 1997, English translation: King of the road: from Bergen-Belsen to the Olympic games: the autobiography of an Israeli scientist and a world-record-holding race walker , 2008
  • Optimal segmentation of walls built on slopes Berlin Internat. Inst. Of Management, Science Center Berlin 1978
  • Optimal strategies in sports , 1977
  • Management science in sports , 1976
  • Management science applications to leisure-time operations , Elsevier North Holland 1975
  • Optimal car rental policy , 1974
  • English-Hebrew dictionary of statistical terminology , 1971
  • Maximization of revenue from sale of United Nations postage-stamps for philatelic purposes , 1968 Thesis Columbia university

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neil Amdur: Ladany, an Ultimate Survivor, Recalls Painful Memories , in NYT , July 13, 2008
  2. ^ Prof. Shaul Ladany elected to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
personal data
SURNAME Ladany, Shaul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ladany, Shaul Paul (full name); Ladany, Sha'ul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli engineer, track and field athlete, Holocaust survivor and survivor of the 1972 Munich hostage-taking
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade