Israel’s Special Olympians off to extensive start in Dubai

It was a successful weekend for a Israeli commission during a Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi, with utterly a few medals.

On Saturday, 39-year-old Avital Naveh won a bullion award in a women’s 100-meter particular medley. It was a second award for Naveh following her bronze in a women’s 100-meter backstroke on Friday.

“I felt good in a competition,” pronounced Naveh after her gold-medal performance. “Throughout a race, we suspicion there was no one with me.”

Blue-and-white swimmer Gilad Kalishov took a bronze award in a men’s 50-meter freestyle competition, and finished only off a lectern in fourth place in a 50-meter breaststroke.

Kalishov, 28, combined to his dual bullion medals and a china from a 2011 World Championships in Athens.

Israel’s Dekel Bar Nir won a bronze award in judo, immediately job out to Israel judoka Arik Ze’evi “Arik Ze’evi, we won a bronze.”

“I still do not digest that we have won bronze,” combined Bar Nir. “I feel unapproachable of a team, of Israel, my relatives and my coach.”

Also, in Unified Bowling (composed of players with and but disabilities) Israeli teams took one china and one bronze.

The group of Hana Duanis, Lin Kornhauser, Israel Nachzatz and Din Ohayon won a silver, while Rhona Gill, Pele Abudy, Tal Sharabi and Amnon Damari teamed adult to constraint bronze.

The Israeli commission of 25 athletes with cognitive disabilities – 20 group and 5 women – is partial of 7,000 athletes from 192 countries around a universe during a eventuality in Dubai.

In a entrance days, a team’s athletes will contest in other competitions in swimming, judo, bowling and basketball.

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