Eitan Friedlander

Eitan Friedlander
Personal information
Nationality  Israel
Born (1958-09-21) September 21, 1958
Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra, Israel
Height 6 ft 1.5 in (186.7 cm)
Weight 161 lb (73 kg)
Sailing career
Class(es)
Medal record
Sailing
Representing  Israel
420 International Yacht Racing Union Youth Sailing World Championship
1972 West Germany420
1974 420
420 World Championships
1980 Quiberon, France420
420 European Championships
1976 Ireland420
470 World Championships
1983 Weymouth470
470 European Championships
1977 Austria470
1978 Portugal470
1979 Spain470
1982 Hungary470

Eitan Friedlander (also "Fridlander"; איתן פרידלנדר; born September 21, 1958) is an Israeli former Olympic sailor.[1] Friedlander and Shimshon Brokman won the 1972 420 International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) Youth Sailing World Championship in West Germany, the gold medals in the 1979 470 European Championships in Spain and the 1980 420 World Championship in France, and a bronze medal in 1983 at the 470 World Championships.

He was born in Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra, Israel, and is Jewish.[2]

Sailing career

In 1972, Friedlander and Shimshon Brokman won the 420 International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) Youth Sailing World Championship in West Germany.[3][4] In 1974 they won the bronze medal in the same event.[5] Friedlander and Brokman won the 1976 European 420 Championship in Ireland.[6]

The two of them then won the bronze medal in the 1977 470 European Championships in Austria, the silver medal in the 1978 European 470 Championship in Portugal, the gold medal in the 1979 European 470 Championship in Spain, and the silver medal in the 1982 European 470 Championship in Hungary.[7]

In the 1980 420 World Championships in Quiberon, France, Brokman and Eitan Friedlander won the gold medal.[8] In the 1980 470 World Championships, they came in 5th.[9]

Friedlander and Brokman were set to compete in the 470 sailing event at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, but did not because Israel joined in the US-led boycott of the Olympics prompted by the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.[10]

Friedlander competed for Israel at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 26 in Sailing.[1] In the Men's 470 Mixed Two Person Dinghy, he and Brokman came in 8th out of 28 teams.[11][12] When he competed in the Olympics he was 6-1.5 (187 cm) tall and weighed 161 lbs (73 kg).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eitan Fridlander Bio, Stats, and Results". sports-reference.com.
  2. ↑ "Friedlander, Eitan"
  3. ↑ "Special to the JTA Israel Sets Sail for Olympic Gold". jta.org. 31 July 1984.
  4. ↑ "Results - 2nd IYRU Youth Sailing World Championships". isafyouthworlds.com.
  5. ↑ "Medal Tally". isafyouthworlds.org.
  6. ↑ "News Brief". jta.org. 19 August 1976.
  7. ↑ "Sports 123: Sailing: European Championships: Men: 470". 11 December 2007. Archived from the original on 11 December 2007.
  8. ↑ Past 420 World, European and Junior European Champions - 420 Sailing
  9. ↑ "Yachting". May 1980.
  10. ↑ "Brockman, Shimshon"
  11. ↑ "Sailing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Mixed Two Person Dinghy". sports-reference.com.
  12. ↑ "Nautical Sports - Shimshon Brokman (Israel)". the-sports.org.
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