Esther Roth-Shahamorov
 Roth-Shachamorov in July 2007 | ||
| Medal record | ||
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| Women'sathletics | ||
Representing Israel
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| Asian Games | ||
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Bangkok 1970 | 100 m hurdles |
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Bangkok 1970 | Pentathlon |
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Tehran 1974 | 100 m |
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Tehran 1974 | 200 m |
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Tehran 1974 | 100 m hurdles |
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Bangkok 1970 | Long jump |
| Maccabiah Games | ||
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1969 Israel | Long jump |
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1973 Israel | 100 m |
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1977 Israel | 100 m hurdles |
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1977 Israel | 200 m |
| Olympic Boycott Games | ||
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1980 Philadelphia | 100 m hurdles |
Esther Roth-Shahamorov(Hebrew:אסתר רוט-שחמורוב;born April 16, 1952) is a formerIsraelitrack and fieldathlete. She specialized in the100-meter hurdlesand the 100-metersprint.
Early and personal life
[edit]Esther Shahamorov was born inTel Aviv,Israel,to anAshkenazi Jewishfamily.[1]In 1973, she married Peter Roth, a gymnast, who became her coach. She has a son, Yaron (born 1974), who was a national champion in fencing, and a daughter, Einat. After she retired from competitive sport she became a sports schoolteacher.
Track career
[edit]Records
[edit]She once held simultaneously five Israeli national records. One of them is still a record and two others held for over 20 years.
- Her time of 11.45s in the 100m, set at the1972 Summer OlympicsinMunich,was broken on Sat Apr 19, 2014, byOlga Lenskiy.[2]Lenskiy's result though was vacated later the same year due to skipping mandatory drug test after the competition.[3]
- Her time of 12.93s in the 100m hurdles, set inBerlinshortly after the1976 Summer Olympics,stood as a national record for 26 years, until it was broken byIrina Lenskiyin 2002.
- Her time of 23.57s in the 200m, set inStuttgartin 1975, held as a record for 29 years, until it was broken, also by Irina Lenskiy, in 2002.
- Her mark of 6.14m in the long jump was a national record from 1971 to 1984.
- Her record of 4837 points in theWomen's pentathlonwas a national record from 1971 until the format was changed in 1977.
Asian Games
[edit]Roth won fivegold medalsand one silver medal in twoAsian Games.She won golds in 100m hurdles and pentathlon and a silver in long jump in1970,and three golds, in 100 m, 200 m, and 100 m hurdles, in1974.
Olympics
[edit]At the1972 Summer OlympicsinMunich,Roth just barely missed qualifying for the final in the 100-meter sprint. She qualified for the 100-meter hurdles semifinal, but withdrew from the Games, together with the remaining members of the Israel Olympic team, after the murder of her longtime coach,Amitzur Shapira,and ten other members of the Israeli team, byPalestinian terrorists.
In1976 Summer OlympicsinMontrealwhere she was the Israeli flag-bearer, Roth became the first ever Israeli athlete to reach the finals in any Olympic event, and she is still the only Israeli Olympic finalist in track events, when she finished 6th in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.04 seconds.[4]
Maccabiah Games
[edit]Roth won thelong jumpin the1969 Maccabiah Gameswith a19-foot-3⁄4-inch (5.810-meter) jump.
She won the 100-meter race in the1973 Maccabiah Gamesin 11.75, and the 100 m hurdles in 13.5 seconds.[5][6]She won the 200-meter race in the1977 Maccabiah Gamesin 24.03; and the 100-meter hurdles in the same games in 13.50.
Awards and recognition
[edit]In 1999, Roth was awarded theIsrael Prizefor sports.[7][8]
She appears in the 1999 Oscar-winning documentaryOne Day in Septemberin which she gave her impressions and feelings during the 1972 Munich Athletes hostages crisis.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Track & Field: Women's top-four performances",Jewish Sports Review,Vol. 9, No. 11, Issue 107, p. 17, January/February 2015.
- ^"After 42 years, Israeli women's 100-meter record broken".The Times of Israel.April 19, 2014.RetrievedApril 23,2014.
- ^Jacob Northbrook."Olga Lansky Charged with Avoiding Drug Test: Her Record Vacated".Jerusalem Online.Retrieved2015-03-19.
- ^"Jewish Women and Women's Issues in the Yishuv and Israel"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on June 15, 2011.RetrievedSeptember 12,2011.
- ^"U.S. Brothers Finish 1, 3 in Decathlon in Israel".The New York Times.July 20, 1977 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^"Maccabiah Protest Bars 2 Guest Athletes".The New York Times.July 17, 1973 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^"Rozin, Roth-Shahamorov get Israel Prize - Jerusalem Post | HighBeam Research".The Jerusalem Post. Archived fromthe originalon October 25, 2012.RetrievedSeptember 12,2011.
- ^"Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1999 (in Hebrew)".Archived fromthe originalon 2011-09-21.
| International | |
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| National | |
| People | |
- 1952 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Tel Aviv
- Israeli female sprinters
- Israeli female long jumpers
- Israeli pentathletes
- Israeli female hurdlers
- Jewish track and field athletes
- Olympic athletes for Israel
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1970 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1974 Asian Games
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel
- Maccabiah Games medalists in athletics
- Competitors at the 1969 Maccabiah Games
- Competitors at the 1973 Maccabiah Games
- Competitors at the 1977 Maccabiah Games
- Israel Prize in sport recipients
- Israel Prize women recipients
- Recipients of the Olympic Order
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Asian Athletics Championships winners
- Asian Games gold medalists for Israel
- Asian Games silver medalists for Israel
- Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games
- Israeli Ashkenazi Jews