 Shahamorov in 2018 | ||
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Representing Israel | ||
| Asian Games | ||
 | Bangkok 1970 | 100 m hurdles |
| Bangkok 1970 | Pentathlon |
| Tehran 1974 | 100 m |
| Tehran 1974 | 200 m |
| Tehran 1974 | 100 m hurdles |
 | Bangkok 1970 | Long jump |
| Asian Championships | ||
| 1975 Seoul | 100 m |
| 1975 Seoul | 200 m |
Esther Roth-Shahamorov (Hebrew:אסתר רוט-שחמורוב; born April 16, 1952) is a formerIsraelitrack and field athlete. She specialized in the100-meter hurdles and the 100-metersprint.
Esther Shahamorov was born inTel Aviv,Israel, toBukharian Jewish parents.[1] In 1973, she married Peter Roth, a gymnast, who became her coach. She has a son, Yaron (born 1974), who was a national champion in fencing, and a daughter, Einat. After she retired from competitive sport she became a sports schoolteacher. In 2023 it was found out she was waiting for a kidney transplant, due to genetic disease.[2] In February 2024 she had a successful transplant.[3]
She once held simultaneously five Israeli national records. One of them is still a record and two others held for over 20 years.
Roth won fivegold medals and one silver medal in twoAsian Games. She won golds in 100m hurdles and pentathlon and a silver in long jump in1970, and three golds, in 100 m, 200 m, and 100 m hurdles, in1974.
At the1972 Summer Olympics inMunich, Roth just barely missed qualifying for the final in the 100-meter sprint. She qualified for the 100-meter hurdles semifinal, but withdrew from the Games, together with the remaining members of the Israel Olympic team, after the murder of her longtime coach,Amitzur Shapira, and ten other members of the Israeli team, byPalestinian terrorists.
In1976 Summer Olympics inMontreal where she was the Israeli flag-bearer, Roth became the first ever Israeli athlete to reach the finals in any Olympic event, and she is still the only Israeli Olympic finalist in track events, when she finished 6th in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.04 seconds.[6]
Roth won thelong jump in the1969 Maccabiah Games with a 19-foot-3⁄4-inch (5.810-meter) jump.
She won the 100-meter race in the1973 Maccabiah Games in 11.75, and the 100 m hurdles in 13.5 seconds.[7][8] She won the 200-meter race in the1977 Maccabiah Games in 24.03; and the 100-meter hurdles in the same games in 13.50.
In 1999, Roth was awarded theIsrael Prize for sports.[9][10]
She appears in the 1999 Oscar-winning documentaryOne Day in September in which she gave her impressions and feelings during the 1972 Munich Athletes hostages crisis.
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