Esther Roth-Shahamorov

Esther Roth-Shachamorov (July 2007)
Esther Roth-Shahamorov
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing  Israel
Asian Games
Bangkok 1970 100 m hurdles
Bangkok 1970 Pentathlon
Tehran 1974 100 m
Tehran 1974 200 m
Tehran 1974 100 m hurdles
Bangkok 1970 Long jump
Maccabiah Games
1969 Israel Long jump
1973 Israel 100 m
1977 Israel 100 m hurdles
1977 Israel 200 m
Olympic Boycott Games
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.

Biography

Esther Shahamorov is an Israeli Jew.[1] In 1973, she married 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.

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.

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.

Further information: Munich Massacre

In 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal where she was the Israeli flag-bearer, 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.[4]

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 and recognition

In 1999, Roth was awarded the Israel Prize for sports.[5][6]

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.


See also

References

  1. "Track & Field: Women's top-four performances", Jewish Sports Review, Vol. 9, No. 11, Issue 107, p. 17, January/February 2015.
  2. "After 42 years, Israeli women’s 100-meter record broken". April 19, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
  3. Jacob Northbrook. "Olga Lansky Charged with Avoiding Drug Test: Her Record Vacated". Jerusalem Online. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
  4. "Jewish Women and Women's Issues in the Yishuv and Israel" (PDF). Retrieved September 12, 2011.
  5. ".". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
  6. "Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1999 (in Hebrew)".
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