Membership: Hapoel Society, Herzliya
Residence: Tel Aviv
Guy Starek
Age: 31
Category: Rifle sharpshooter, sniper, ly-
ing down
Achievements: Ranked seventh at the Eu-
ropean Championship in 1995.
Membership: Jerusalem Marksman's So-
ciety
Residence: Herzliya
World Cup.
Coach: Leonid Sheichet
Training: Hapoel Jerusalem
Residence: Jerusalem
Immigrated: 1994
Personal: A California native and UCLA
All-American. He tried out for the U.S.
swimming team in 1992.
Eitan Urbach
Age: 19
Alex Tripolski
Age: 34
Category: Pistol shooting, sniper
Achievements: Silver medal at the World
Cup at Seoul in 1995.
Residence: Wingate Institute
Immigrated: 1990
Coach: Marcel Cohen
Swimming
Alex Tripolski
Vadim Alexeyev
Eiten Urback
Age: 26
Category: 100-meter, 200-meter backstroke
Category: 100-meter breast stroke, relay
Achievements: Ninth at the World Cham- Achievements: First at the European youth
pionship in 1994; sec- champion in 200-meter backstroke in 1995
ond at the World Cup and third at the World Cup this year.
in 1995; third at the Is- Coach: Leonid Kaufmann
rael Championship this Training: Wingate Institute
Membership: Maccabee Haifa
year.
Coach: Leonid Sheichet Residence: Haifa
Training: Philip Leon Occupation: Soldier
swimming pool in Jeru-
Tennis
salem
Membership: Hapoel Anna Smnshnova
Jerusalem
Age: 20
Residence: Jerusalem Achievements: Champion of the Roland
Gams Tournament in France in 1991; third
Immigrated: 1992
at the USA Open Match in 1994; fourth at
Vadim Alexeyev
the Roland Garos Tournament in 1995; and
Yoav Bruk
won the first round of the Australia Open
Age: 24
Category: 50-meter, Championship this year.
100-meter freestyle
Coach: Oded Yaacov
Achievements: Eighth Training: Tennis Center, Ramat-Hasharon
at the World Champi- Residence: Herzliya
onship in 1994; sixth in Immigrated: 1990
the 50-meter freestyle
at the European Track and Field
Championship in 1995; Dani Krasnov
and a gold medal for Age: 26
short swims in the Category: Pole vault
World Cup Tourna- Achievements: Finished eighth at the
ment this year.
Barcelona games in 1992; best achievement
Coach: Leonid Kauf- was 5.75 meters at the Grand Prix in Brus-
mann
Yoav Bruk
sels in 1994; 14th place at the World
Training: He swam at Championship in Barcelona in 1995
Auburn University, where he was study- when he jumped 5.6 meters; and
ing. He practiced at the Wingate Institute. fourth in the International Match
Membership: Hapoel Nahariya
this year.
Residence: Herzliya
Coach: Rosenwar Arieh
Training: In the former Soviet
Dan Kutler
Union, at Hapoel Jerusalem and
Age: 26
Hadar Yosef.
Category: 100-meter butterfly stroke and Residence: Jerusalem.
relay
Immigrated: 1991
Achievements: Won two gold medals at the
Dani
1993 Maccabiah Games; 15th at the Eu- Rogel Nahum
Krasnov
ropean Championship in 1995; third at the Age: 29
Rogel Nahum
Category: Triple
jump
Achievements: His
best achievement
was 17.20 meters at
the World Cup in
Sevilia in 1992. In
1995, he placed
11th at the World
Championships and
fourth at the Inter-
national Match.
Coach: Alex Mer-
man
Training: Maccabee-Tel Aviv and Hadar
Yosef
Residence: Tel Aviv
Also competing:
Konstantin Matusevitch
Age: 25
Category: High jump
Achievements: In 1995, ranked second at
the Ukraine Championship.
Residence: Netanya
Occupation: Coach
ISRAELI OLYMPIANS page 08
American Jews
A t press time, the Jewish News also was aware of the
ttfollowing Jewish Olympians from the United States:
Fencing
Clifford Bayer
Age: 19
Achievements: Bronze at the 1993 Mac-
cabiah Games with the team winning
the silver; first place in several high
school competitions and eighth in the
under-20 competition at the 1993 Junior
Olympics.
Membership: Junior USA and World
Cadet Teams
Residence: New York City
AChievements: He won a gold medal at
el
ft:ire 1e985 aMi.„74ctic;th
ab:alh98G
in Ura
team,
a silver
the Uames
golit ineldne44Lf°r
-ggam
th
teathllg . PGaVmdepsaated
ndetshth
' eber°
11912;6
Pan American
Iympies.
oce: San Francisco
ion: Teacher and coach
anal: He began competing when he
was 9.
.
rig
Steven Segaloff
Age: 28
Achievements: As former captain and
coxswain of the Cornell Uni
versity varsity crew, his nine-
member team posted wins at
the Augusta Regatta in 1991
and '92 and fifth place in the
National Rowing Champi-
onships in 1992. In 1993, he
was chosen to be part of U.S.
Rowing Assocation. His boat
won several major champi-
onships in the past three
years, including two Henley
Regattas, the World Champi-
onship, two U.S. champs
onships and gold medals in the Goodwill
Games in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1994.
Training: U .S. Olympic Training Cen.-
ter in San Diego.
Residence: California
Personal: He is a spokesman for the row-
ing team, speaking before synagogues
and Jewish organizations. He also wrote
a bi-monthly column about his pre-
Olympic training experiences for USA
Today's Internet sports page. His father,
- James, was a coxswain and captain of
the Syracuse University crew in 1965.
He won gold medals that year at the
Maccabiah Games in Israel and in 1985
and 1989.
Skating
Dan Hollander
Age: 23
Category: Figure :skating
Achievernentg
....... ):N9. 3 men's 4g4X.eSkater
in the VitOOtittes. He earned iCbronze
Figure Skating Chain-
medal
in
.
pionslups:W$an Jose, Calif., this year.
He finishokt 10th in the nationals in 1993
and 1994 and seventh in the 1994 na-
tionals.
Huntinton Woods Mich.
1Se Chalom
Age: 16
Category: Pairs skating
Achievements: She earned a bronze
medal in her first senior dance compe
tition. with partner, Mathew Gates, 20.
They were alternative sk a ters in Cal-
gary this year.
Residence: Beverly Hills, Mich.
Personal: At 4 years old, she was hit by
a car while riding- her bicycle and lost 50
percent of her hearing. She wears hear-
ing aids in both ears. She and Mr. Gates
were the only first-yewr seniors to make
the world team since 1958.
--- Compiled by
Roni B. Robbins
C,
›-
-J
0-7