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Jeff Rabkin
Personal information
NationalityIsraeli
Born1958
South Africa
Medal record
Representing  Israel
World Outdoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Worthing singles
Silver medal – second place 1996 Adelaide singles
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Johannesburg singles

Jeff Rabkin (born 1958 in South Africa) is a former Israel international bowls player.[1]

Bowls career

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Born in South Africa he started playing aged 18 and after emigrating to Israel in 1985 he won the Israeli national title seven times and the masters sixteen times and in February 2000 he reached a career high ranking of world number one.[1]

He has won three medals in the singles event at consecutive World Bowls Championships; he won a bronze medal in 1992 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Worthing followed by a silver medal at the 1996 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Adelaide and a bronze medal at the 2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg.[2]

In 1993, he won the Hong Kong International Bowls Classic pairs title with Cecil Bransky.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "He's bowled the world over, but gets no kudos here". The Jerusalem Post.
  2. ^ "Competing Players". Burnside Bowling Club.
  3. ^ "HK Classic winners Men Pairs". HKLBA. Retrieved 7 June 2021.