Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum

Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum (born 1946) is an Israeli athlete who has won 30 Paralympic medals.[1][2] She has represented Israel at the Summer Paralympic Games seven times and has competed in athletics, swimming and table tennis at the Games.

Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum

Medal record
Representing  Israel
Summer Paralympic Games
Athletics
	1964 Tokyo	Women's shot put D
	1968 Tel Aviv	Women's club throw D
	1968 Tel Aviv	Women's javelin D
	1968 Tel Aviv	Women's pentathlon special class
	1968 Tel Aviv	Women's shot put D
	1972 Heidelberg	Women's javelin 5
	1976 Toronto	Women's javelin 5
	1976 Toronto	Women's pentathlon 5
	1976 Toronto	Women's shot put 5
	1980 Arnhem	Women's javelin 5
	1984 New York	Women's discus D
	1984 New York	Women's javelin 5
	1988 Seoul	Women's javelin 5
	1968 Tel Aviv	Women's discus D
	1972 Heidelberg	Women's shot put 5
	1976 Toronto	Women's discus 5
	1984 New York	Women's shot put 5
	1984 New York	Women's pentathlon 5
	1964 Tokyo	Women's discus D
	1964 Tokyo	Women's javelin D
	1980 Arnhem	Women's shot put 5
	1988 Seoul	Women's shot put 5
	1988 Seoul	Women's pentathlon 5-6
Wheelchair basketball
	1968 Tel Aviv	Wheelchair basketball
	1976 Toronto	Wheelchair basketball
	1980 Arnhem	Wheelchair basketball
	1984 New York	Wheelchair basketball
	1972 Heidelberg	Wheelchair basketball
Swimming
	1964 Tokyo	Women's 50 m freestyle prone cauda equina
Table Tennis
	1964 Tokyo	Women's doubles C

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.[1] She took gold in the women's shot put D, setting a new world record of 5.16 metres.[3] She also won bronze medals in the javelin, discus and table tennis and a silver in her swimming event behind compatriot Mishani.[1][4]

At the 1968 Summer Paralympics in Tel Aviv Rubin-Rosenbaum won a further four gold medals and a silver medal, all in athletics. 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.[5][1] 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.[1]

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.[1]

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

References

1. Results for Zipora Rubin and Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)
2. Darom-Simri, Ronnie. "Sport: Yishuv to the Present". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
3. "Results Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games Athletics Women's Shot Put D". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
4. "Results Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games Swimming Women's 50 m Freestyle Prone cauda equina". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
5. "Heidelberg 1972". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 26 April 2011.