Tami Carmeli (Hebrew: תמי כרמלי, born 1939) is an Israeli lawn bowls player.
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| National team | Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 December 1939 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Lawn bowls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editCarmeli was a librarian in the Technion when she became blind in 1980. In 1988, she began playing lawn bowls.[3]
Carmeli was the national champion in lawn bowls in classification B1 in the years 1991, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008 and 2012.[4][5]
Carmeli took part in the International Blind Bowls Association World Championships of 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005, winning two silver medals (1993, 2005) and one bronze (2001) in the Mixed Pairs tournaments.[6] She also competed in the world championships of the International Paralympic Committee in the years 1995, 1998 and 2002 and 2011 winning medals in both singles' tournaments and in the mixed pairs events.[7][8]
At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, Carmeli won bronze in the lawn bowls women's singles LB6 event.
In the years 2000 and 2006 she was named "Athlete of the Year" by the Ministry of Culture and Sport.[9]
Carmeli was the subject of a 1997 documentary directed by her son and titled Mom's First Olympics.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Results Archive - Atlanta 1996 - Lawn Bowls - Womens Singles Lb6". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ a b "International Bowls for the Disabled Players Database". International Blind Bowls Association. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "הכדור בידיים שלה". Haaretz. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "אלופי הארץ בתחרויות יחידים". The Israel Lawn Bowls Association for the Blind. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "אלופי הארץ יחידים מ-2010". The Israel Lawn Bowls Association for the Blind. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "אליפות העולם לעיוורים". The Israel Lawn Bowls Association for the Blind. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "תחרויות הארגון הבינלאומי לכדורת דשא לנכים". The Israel Lawn Bowls Association for the Blind. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "אליפות בינלאומית לעיוורים ונכים (IBD) בדרום אפריקה - מאי 2011". The Israel Lawn Bowls Association for the Blind. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "ספורטאים מצטיינים". The Israel Lawn Bowls Association for the Blind. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "האולימפיאדה הראשונה של אמא". nfct.org.il. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
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