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Nufar Edelman Personal information Birth name נופר אדלמן Born August 19, 1982
Rosh HaNikra, IsraelHeight 5' 6" (168 cm) Weight 150 lbs (68 kg) Sport Country Israel Sport Sailing Event(s) Women's Laser Radial One-Person Dinghy Nufar Edelman (born August 19, 1982) is an Israeli Olympic sailor.[1] She competes in the Laser Radial, a class of small singlehanded sailing dinghy.
Biography
Edelman is Jewish, and was born in Rosh HaNikra, Israel.[1][2] She finished 4th in the 2004 Laser Radial World Championships.[3]
Edelman finished 7th out of 97 competitors in the 2007 Laser Radial World Championships in Cascais, Portugal, becoming the first Israeli woman to meet the criteria for the Olympics in the Laser Radial.[4][5]
She competed on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, in the Women's Laser Radial One-Person Dinghy, and came in 16th.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Nufar Edelman Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-reference.com. http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ed/nufar-edelman-1.html. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
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- ^ "Laser Archives - World Championships". Laserinternational.org. http://www.laserinternational.org/OLD%20WEBSITE/archives/arcwradw.htm. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ "Nufar Edelman: Laser Radial sailor". The Jerusalem Post. http://www.jpost.com/Sports/Article.aspx?id=106998. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
- ^ "Nufar Edelman Results for sailing events and championships". Sailracer.org.. http://www.sailracer.org/sailor_results.asp?sailor=Nufar%20Edelman. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
External links
Categories:- 1982 births
- Living people
- Israeli sailors
- Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic sailors of Israel
- Jewish sportspeople
- Israeli Jews
- People from Rosh HaNikra
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