Esther Roth-Shahamorov
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Competitor for the  Israel
| ||
| Asian Games | ||
| Gold | Bangkok 1970 | 100 meter hurdles |
| Gold | Bangkok 1970 | Pentathlon |
| Gold | Tehran 1974 | 100 meter race |
| Gold | Tehran 1974 | 200 meter race |
| Gold | Tehran 1974 | 100 meter hurdles |
| Silver | Bangkok 1970 | Long Jump |
| Maccabiah Games | ||
| Gold | 1969 Israel | Long Jump |
| Gold | 1973 Israel | 100 meter race |
| Gold | 1977 Israel | 100 meter hurdles |
| Gold | 1977 Israel | 200 meter race |
| Olympic Boycott Games | ||
| Gold | 1980 Philadelphia | 100 m hurdles |
Esther Roth-Shachamorov (Hebrew: אסתר רוט-שחמורוב) (born April 16, 1952 in Tel Aviv) is a former Israeli track and field athlete. She specialized in the 100-meter hurdles and the 100-meter sprint.
Track career
Records
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 11.45 in 100 mseconds, set at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, still stands as the Israeli national record.
- Her time of 12.93 seconds in 100m hurdles, set in Berlin shortly after the 1976 Summer Olympics, held as a national record for 26 years, until it was broken by Irina Lenskiy in 2002.
- Her time of 23.57 seconds in 200m, set in Stuttgart in 1975, held as a record for 29 years, until it was also broken by Lenskiy in 2002.
- Her mark of 6.14m in long jump was a national record from 1971 to 1984.
- Her record of 4837 points in Women's pentathlon was a national record from 1971 until the format was changed in 1977.
Asian Games
Roth won five gold medals and one silver medal in two Asian Games. She won golds in 100m hurdles and pentathlon and a silver in long jump in 1970, and three golds, in 100 m, 200 m, and 100 m hurdles, in 1974.
Olympics
At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, 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, by Palestinian terrorists.In 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, 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.[1]
Maccabiah Games
Roth won the 100-meter race in the 1973 Maccabiah Games in 11.75; the 200-meter race in the 1977 Maccabiah Games in 24.03; the 100-meter hurdles in the same games in 13.50; and the long jump in the 1969 Maccabiah Games with a 19 foot, 3/4 inch (5.81 meter) jump.
Awards
In 1999, Roth was awarded the Israel Prize for sports.[2][3]
She appears in the 1999 Oscar winning documentary One Day in September in which she gave her impressions and feelings during the 1972 Munich Athletes hostages crisis.
In 2005, she was voted the 127th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[4]
Personal
Esther Shahamorov (her maiden name) married in 1973 with 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.
References
- ↑ "Jewish Women And Women'S Issues In The Yishuv (Palestine) and Israel" (PDF). Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- ↑ ".". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- ↑ "Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1999 (in Hebrew)".
- ↑ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. Retrieved July 10, 2011.