Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum

Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum

Sport
Country	Israel
Medal record Representing Israel Paralympic Games Women's para-athletics 1964 Tokyo Shot put D 1968 Tel Aviv Club throw D 1968 Tel Aviv Javelin D 1968 Tel Aviv Pentathlon special class 1968 Tel Aviv Shot put D 1972 Heidelberg Javelin 5 1976 Toronto Javelin 5 1976 Toronto Pentathlon 5 1976 Toronto Shot put 5 1980 Arnhem Javelin 5 1984 New York Discus throw 6 1984 New York Javelin 5 1988 Seoul Javelin 5 1968 Tel Aviv Discus D 1972 Heidelberg Shot put 5 1976 Toronto Discus 5 1984 New York Shot put 5 1984 New York Pentathlon 6 1964 Tokyo Discus D 1964 Tokyo Javelin D 1980 Arnhem Shot put 5 1988 Seoul Shot put 5 1988 Seoul Pentathlon 5-6 Women's wheelchair basketball 1968 Tel Aviv Team 1976 Toronto Team 1980 Arnhem Team 1984 New York Team 1972 Heidelberg Team Women's swimming 1964 Tokyo 50 m freestyle prone cauda equina 1968 Tel Aviv Medley relay Women's table tennis 1964 Tokyo Doubles C

Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum (born 1946) is an Israeli athlete who has won 31 Paralympic medals. She has represented Israel at the Summer Paralympic Games seven times and has competed in athletics, swimming, table tennis, and wheelchair basketball at the Games.

Paralympics

Her first appearance came at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, the second ever Paralympics, held in Tokyo, Japan. Zipora competed in five events and won a medal in each; three athletics field events; the women's doubles table tennis, alongside playing partner Mishani; and 50 metre freestyle swimming. She took gold in the women's shot put D, setting a new world record of 5.16 metres. She also won bronze medals in the javelin, discus and table tennis and a silver in her swimming event behind compatriot Mishani.

At the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv Rubin-Rosenbaum won a further four gold medals and two silver medals. In the 1972 Games, hosted in Heidelberg, West Germany, she won a gold medal in javelin with a new world record of 18.5 metres, and also won a silver medal in the shot put. In the Toronto Games Rubin-Rosenbaum defended her title in javelin, and also won gold medals in pentathlon and discus, as well as a silver in shot put. She won her fourth Paralympic javelin gold medal in 1980, also taking the bronze medal in shot put.

In the 1984 Summer Paralympics she again won 2 gold and 2 silver medals in athletic fields. In 1988 in Seoul and won three more medals, a gold in javelin and bronzes in both pentathlon and shot put. Her final Paralympics came in 1992 in Barcelona where she finished eighth in the javelin THS2 event and thirteenth in the THS2 shot put.

She was a member of the national women wheelchair basketball team and competed in wheelchair basketball at the Paralympic Games from 1968 to 1988, winning 2 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal.

See also

• Israel at the Paralympics
• List of multiple Paralympic gold medalists

External links

• Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum at the International Paralympic Committee