Tomer Or

Tomer Or
Personal information
Born (1978-09-26) 26 September 1978
Haifa
Weapon(s) Foil
Hand right-handed
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Years on national team  Israel
National coach(es) Ohad Balva, Haim Hatuel[1]
Club Hapoel Haifa;[1] CE Melun Val de Seine
FIE ranking current ranking

Tomer Or (Hebrew: תומר אור‎; born September 26, 1978) is an Israeli foil fencer.[2]

Early life

Or is Jewish, and was born in Haifa, Israel.[3][4] He earned an LL.B. in Law and Business from the Interdisciplinary Center, in Herzliya, Israel.[5][6]

Fencing career

Or began fencing at the age of eight, fenced at Hapoel Haifa, in Haifa, Israel, and was coached by Ohad Balva and Haim Hatuel.[1]

Or won the gold medal at the 1998 Junior World Championship in Valencia, Venezuela, and the silver medal in 1994 in Mexico City, Mexico.[5]

He is a 10-time Israel Senior National Champion.[5] He won gold medals in Senior World Cups in Budapest (2002), Copenhagen (2005), Vancouver (2006), and Havana (2007).[5]

He fenced on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and came in 17th.[2][7]

At the 2009 World Fencing Championships, he advanced to the third round when his scheduled opponent, Mohammed Hussein Ibrahimi, failed to show up, part of a pattern of Iranians not showing up to face Israelis at the competition.[8]

In 2009, he won the gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in men's foil.[9]

He came in fifth at the 2014 European Fencing Championships in Strasbourg, France.[1]

Coaching career

Or received his coaching diploma from Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sport in Netanya, Israel, in 2005.[5] He started his coaching career 2005 at the Haifa Fencing Club in Israel.[5] From 2010 he was assistant coach at St John's University in New York City, before he returned to Israel.[10][1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Fencer - OR Tomer - ISRAEL - FIE - International Fencing Federation
  2. 1 2 "Fencing – Tomer Or (Israel): season totals". The-sports.org. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Jews in the Olympics: 63 Athletes, 7 Countries". Jewishinstlouis.org. Archived from the original on April 7, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Tomer Or Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-reference.com. August 13, 2008. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Tomer Or". Manhattan Fencing Center. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Tomer Or". Fie.ch. September 26, 1978. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Israel at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
  8. ↑ Hipsh, Rami (October 13, 2011). "Fencing / Iran keeps up Israel boycott, forfeits again". Haaretz. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-31.
  10. ↑ "Tomer Or". redstormsports.com.
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