Moshe Levy (athlete)

Olympic medal record
Swimming (Paralympics)
Gold	1968 Tel Aviv	50m backstroke
Bronze	1972 Heidelberg	50m backstroke
Gold	1976 Toronto	3X50m medley relay
Gold	1976 Toronto	4X50m freestyle relay
Gold	1976 Toronto	4X100m medley relay
Gold	1976 Toronto	50m backstroke
Silver	1976 Toronto	25m butterfly
Bronze	1976 Toronto	3X25m individual medley
Wheelchair basketball (Paralympics)
Gold	1980 Arnheim	Wheelchair basketball

Moshe Levy (Hebrew: משה לוי‎, born 1952) is an Israeli paralympic champion.

Levy was born in Israel in 1952 and contracted polio as a young baby. In 1962 he began practicing at the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled, focusing on swimming and wheelchair basketball. That same year he attended for the first time the competition for swimming across the Sea of Galilee, in which he later took part for 13 consecutive years.

Over the years Levy participated in various international competitions, including seven Paralympic Games. He won 6 paralympic medals as an individual and others as a member of the Israeli wheelchair basketball team.

In later years Levy remains active in sports and plays at "Kessem" basketball team, operated by an organization for promotion of paralympic sports. In 2003 - 2004 he coached his team.

External links

• moshe levy's profile on paralympic.org

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Name	Levy, Moshe
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Date of birth	1952
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