Shoshana Ribner

Shoshana Ribner
Ribner, member of the Israeli swim team (1957)
Personal information
Birth nameשושנה ריבנר
National team Israel
Born(1938-02-20)February 20, 1938
Vienna, Federal State of Austria
Died29 June 2007 (age 69)
Sport
SportSwimming
ClubBrit Maccabi Atid

Shoshana Ribner (also "Rivner", Hebrew: שושנה ריבנר; February 20, 1938[1] – 29 June 2007[2][3]) was an Israeli Olympic swimmer.[1]

Biography

Shoshana Ribner was born in Vienna, Austria. Her family immigrated to Israel when she was an infant.[4] Ribner began competing as a swimmer at the age of 13. [5][6] Her trainer, 24-year-old Nachum Buch, swam for Israel at the 1952 Summer Olympics.[5]

Ribner's son, Damon Fialkov, was Israel's 200-meter backstroke champion in 1981.[4]

Swimming career

Ribner joined the Brit Maccabi Atid swimming club of Tel Aviv at the age of 13.[5] She won gold medals in the 100-meter and 400-meter crawls at the 1953 Maccabiah Games.[4][6][7]

She competed for Israel at the 1956 Summer Olympics, when she was 18 years old, in Melbourne, Australia, in Swimming--Women's 100 metre freestyle.[1] She finished 7th in her heat, with a time of 1:10.3, and did not advance to the finals.[1][4] She was the only female on Israel's 15-person Olympic team.[5] Her best time in the 100 meter freestyle was 1:09.3, and her fastest time for the 400 meter freestyle was 5:42.59, as of 1956.[5] That year she was named Israel's Athlete of the Year.[4][8]

Ribner won two gold medals and two silver medals (including a silver medal in the 400 m) at the 1957 Maccabiah Games.[4][9]

In 1998, she was named one of Israel's top 50 athletes in its history.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Shoshana Rivner Bio, Stats, and Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
  2. ^ "איגוד השחייה בישראל - הודעות לעיתונות : תנחומים למשפחת ריבנר". m.one.co.il (in Hebrew). 1 July 2007. Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  3. ^ "Picture of tombstone". www.neshama.net (in Hebrew). Retrieved 2018-03-29.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "jewsinsports.org".
  5. ^ a b c d e "Jewish Post 9 November 1956 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program". newspapers.library.in.gov.
  6. ^ a b "Vochenblatt - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  7. ^ "Maccabiah 4".
  8. ^ Postal, Bernard; Silver, Jesse; Silver, Roy (1965). Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports. Bloch Publishing Company.
  9. ^ "WOLK, U.S., TAKES MACCABIAH SWIM; Colgate Star Captures Gold Medal in 400 Free-Style, Gains Butterfly Final Jane Katz Places Third Ash Betters Lifting Mark". timesmachine.nytimes.com.