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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 427

Paralympics

Israeli Paralympic gold medalists (from left) Ami Dadaon, Asaf Yasur and Moran Samuel celebrate their wins at the 2024 Paris Paralympics. (Composite image; Lilach Weiss Rosenberg/Israeli Paralympic Committee)
September 8, 2024, 5:23 pm
Israel celebrates its best Paralympic showing in 20 years with 10-medal haul
Closing ceremony delegation to be led by flag bearers Ami Dadaon, who won four medals, and Gal Hamrani, captain of the women’s goalball team, which took a historic silver
By Amy Spiro
Israeli Paralympian Ami Dadaon swims in the 50m final in the S4 disability at the Paris Games on September 6, 2024. (Lilach Weiss Rosenberg)
September 6, 2024, 11:52 pm
Israeli swimmer Dadaon wins bronze in 50m final, his 4th Paris medal
Achievement brings total Israeli medal haul at 2024 Paralympics to 10
By ToI Staff
Israel's women's goalball team celebrates winning silver at the 2024 Paris Paralympics on September 5, 2024. (Lilach Weiss Rosenberg)
September 5, 2024, 9:06 pm
Israel wins Paralympic silver in goalball, bronze in tennis, boosting medal count to 9
First team sport medal for Israel at the Games since 1988; Guy Sasson says he hopes his victory on the court ‘can give a small smile’ to the families of the hostages and fallen
By Amy Spiro
Israeli swimmer Mark Malyar poses for a photo with his bronze medal in the men's 100m backstroke at the Paris Paralympics on August 31, 2024. (Lilach Weiss Rosenberg)
August 31, 2024, 9:22 pm
Israeli swimmer clinches bronze at Paris Paralympics, nation’s third medal so far
Mark Malyar dedicates win to ‘soldiers protecting us’; tennis players Guy Sasson, Maayan Zikri win their matches, while badminton athletes Nina Gorodetzky and Amir Levi knocked out
By Amy Spiro
Illustrative: A Israeli soldier wounded during fighting in Gaza works with a physiotherapist at the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, Feb. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
August 23, 2024, 11:07 am
From Gaza to LA: Can Paralympics dream help wounded soldiers get back their fighting spirit?
Aiming to provide motivation and spirit to soldiers facing grueling rehab, sporting officials are already looking at those injured in current fighting as 2028 Paralympic hopefuls
By Amy Spiro
Athletes from Israel enter the stadium during the opening ceremony for the 2020 Paralympics at the National Stadium in Tokyo, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
May 20, 2024, 3:49 pm
Paralympics chief says there’s no reason to ban Israel from 2024 Games
Andrew Parsons says that while Russia, Belarus were banned for violating Olympic constitution, Israel has not done so
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Israeli and US wheelchair basketball teams square off in the final match of the competition at the Jerusalem International YMCA on July 21, 2022. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
August 5, 2022, 3:02 pm
Israeli team takes gold in Maccabiah wheelchair basketball tournament
Athletes lament poor turnout at this year’s games but are optimistic about the future; US captain says organizers did a good job respecting wheelchair basketball as a sport
By Charlie Summers
Israel's Sheina Vaspi competes in the women's giant slalom standing alpine skiing event at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Centre in Yanqing during the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games on March 11, 2022. (WANG Zhao / AFP)
March 11, 2022, 11:39 am
Israel’s first-ever Winter Paralympian hits the slopes at Beijing Games
Sheina Vaspi, finishing 15th in giant slalom, is forced to skip the slalom event after it was rescheduled for Saturday, when the religiously observant athlete does not compete
By Amy Spiro
Ukraine's winners, gold medalist Iryna Bui, center, silver medalist Oleksandra Kononova, left, and bronze medalist Liudmyla Liashenko celebrate after the women's middle distance standing event at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, in Zhangjiakou, China, March 8, 2022. (Shuji Kajiama/AP)
March 8, 2022, 12:55 pm
Weighed down by news from home, Ukrainian athletes soldier on to Paralympic medals
Delegation overcomes heartbreak to win 6 golds and 17 other medals so far; one competitor pulls out of event after learning her father was captured and beaten, coach’s home bombed
By Lisa MARTIN
President of Ukraine's National Paralympic Committee Valerii Sushkevych speaks to the media at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, on Thursday, March 3, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
March 4, 2022, 1:39 pm
As war rages, Paralympics to open in Beijing without Russia
Ukrainian delegation escapes war zone to make it to games in four-day journey; athletes from Belarus also banned
By AP
International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Chief Brand and Communications Officer Craig Spence, left, and President Andrew Parsons listen as a journalist from Ukraine asks a question during a press conference at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing, March 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
March 3, 2022, 3:13 pm
Ukrainian athletes barely make it to Beijing Paralympics after ‘miracle’ escape
Dodging bombs and sleeping on floors, delegation arrives at Winter Paralympics in Beijing, eager to be ‘a symbol to show that Ukraine is alive’
By Lisa MARTIN
Russian President Vladimir Putin talks via videoconference with members of the Russian Paralympic Committee team ahead of the XIII Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 21, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
March 3, 2022, 11:00 am
Russian and Belarusian athletes banned from Winter Paralympic Games
International Paralympic Committee reverses decision less than a day after it said it would allow competitors from the two allied countries to compete as neutral athletes
By Agencies
Israeli Paralympic skier Sheina Vaspi. (Courtesy/International Paralympic Committee)
February 27, 2022, 6:59 pm
‘Paving the way’: Israel’s first winter Paralympian to ski in Beijing on one leg
Sheina Vaspi, a Hasidic woman from northern Israel, skis at speeds up to 55 mph; hopes to inspire next generation of Paralympic athletes
By Luke Tress
Flag bearers walk into the stadium for the closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 20, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
February 24, 2022, 5:32 pm
IOC condemns Russia for violating ‘Olympic Truce’ with Ukraine invasion
Organization notes 193 UN member states agreed to global armistice from February 4 to March 13 during Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games
By AFP
Assaf Yasur at the World Para Taekwondo Championships in Istanbul, Turkey, December 11, 2021. (Israel Taekwondo Federation)
December 12, 2021, 8:45 am
Israeli who lost both hands aged 13 takes gold at World Para Taekwondo Championships
Assaf Yasur, whose arms were amputated at the elbow when he was a teen, kicks his way to victory 6 years later, defeating the European champion along the way
By Stuart Winer
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