Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum
Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum (born 1946) is an Israeli athlete who has won 31 Paralympic medals.[28][29] 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.[28] She took gold in the women's shot put D, setting a new world record of 5.16 metres.[30] She also won bronze medals in the javelin, discus and table tennis and a silver in her swimming event behind compatriot Mishani.[28][31]
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.[32][28] 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.[28]
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.[28]
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.
References
- "Results Archive - Tokyo 1964 - Athletics - Womens Shot Put D". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Womens Club Throw D". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Womens Javelin D". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Womens Pentathlon Special Class". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Womens Shot Put D". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Heidelberg 1972 - Athletics - Womens Javelin 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Toronto 1976 - Athletics - Womens Javelin 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Toronto 1976 - Athletics - Womens Pentathlon 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Toronto 1976 - Athletics - Womens Shot Put 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Arnhem 1980 - Athletics - Womens Javelin 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Stoke Mandeville New York 1984 - Athletics - Womens Discus Throw 6". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Stoke Mandeville New York 1984 - Athletics - Womens Javelin 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Seoul 1988 - Athletics - Womens Javelin 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Womens Discus Throw D". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Heidelberg 1972 - Athletics - Womens Shot Put 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Stoke Mandeville New York 1984 - Athletics - Womens Shot Put 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Seoul 1988 - Athletics - Womens Shot Put 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Stoke Mandeville New York 1984 - Athletics - Womens Pentathlon 6". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Tokyo 1964 - Athletics - Womens Discus Throw D". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Tokyo 1964 - Athletics - Womens Javelin D". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Arnhem 1980 - Athletics - Womens Shot Put 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Seoul 1988 - Athletics - Womens Shot Put 5". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Seoul 1988 - Athletics - Womens Pentathlon 5 6". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Wheelchair Basketball - Womens Tournament". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Results Archive - Tokyo 1964 - Swimming - Womens 50 M Freestyle Prone Cauda Equina". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- תוצאות שחייני נבחרות ישראל באולימפיאדות 2000-1960, במים כולם שווים: סיפורה של מרגלית - סיפור שחיית הנכים בישראל, ע' 114 (in Hebrew)
- "Results Archive - Tokyo 1964 - Table Tennis - Womens Doubles C". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-22.
- "Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee.
- Darom-Simri, Ronnie. "Sport: Yishuv to the Present". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "Results Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games Athletics Women's Shot Put D". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "Results Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games Swimming Women's 50 m Freestyle Prone cauda equina". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- "Heidelberg 1972". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 26 April 2011.