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MARGALIT
SONNENFELD
Sport: Official/Coach
Inducted: 1997
Country: Israel
Born: 1925, in Brno, Czechoslovakia
Margalit Sonnenfeld taught and coached 125 amputee and paralyzed water
sport athletes who competed in the Paralympics and Stoke-Mandeville
Games from 1964 through 1992. Sonnenfeld’s athletes won 32 gold
medals, 26 silvers, and 18 bronzes. Sonnenfeld immigrated to Israel in
1940 and, in the late 1950s, began to teach swimming to polio-stricken
invalid
children. With the establishment of the Ilan (now Israel) Sports Centre
in Ramat Gan, she organized and coached competitive swimming
classes for children as young as three years old, many of whom developed
into international athletes. |
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