Tag: Swimming
Swimming with the tide: Athlete, actor, volunteer and Israeli supporter Mark Spitz
Fifty years after the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, swimmer Mark Spitz is still a household name and a Jewish legend. He is best known for winning seven gold medals in the 1972 games....
TV broadcaster in Spain accuses Israeli swimming duo of cover for ‘genocide’
While two Israeli swimmers took to the podium to await the results in their final qualifying tournament before the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, a broadcaster with a TV station in Spain took the opportunity to...
Israeli swimmer sets new record with gold-medal win at European swim meet
Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko won Israel’s first-ever gold medal at an Olympic swimming competition on May 22, Haaretz reported.
The 17-year-old took home the top honor at the European Aquatics Championship in Budapest, Hungary.
Gorbenko came in first...
AI lifeguard system to be deployed surfside in Israel
A new artificial intelligence-based (AI) system, Sightbit, developed by alumni of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, helps lifeguards monitor thousands of swimmers, as well as identify risky situations and other water hazards. In fact,...
Olympics swimmer Dara Torres inducted into Jewish-American Hall of Fame
The Jewish-American Hall of Fame has announced its 51st inductee, former Olympic swimmer Dara Torres.
Torres competed in five Olympic Games, winning 12 medals and overtaking American swimmer Mark Spitz, who’s also Jewish, with 11...
Hungarian Holocaust survivor turned Olympic gold medalist dies at age 92
Eva Szekely, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who later became an Olympics multiple award-winning swimmer, died on Feb. 29 the age of 92.
During World War II, fascist militants in Hungary came to take Szekely, then 17, away...