Avraham Tshuva

Olympic medal record
Representing Israel
Summer Paralympic Games
Wheelchair basketball

Avraham Tshuva (Template:Lang-he) is an Israeli journalist reporting on disabled sports events and a former athlete and member of the national wheelchair basketball team.

Biography

Avraham Tshuva, disabled by polio, has been a member of the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled since 1961. A certified basketball coach by the Wingate Institute, for many years he coached the center's men's and women's wheelchair basketball teams. As a certified sports journalist he joined the center's administration as its spokesperson, also providing the daily newspapers with coverage on all aspects of disabled sports since the 1970s.^[1]

In the 1968 Summer Paralympics held in Tel Aviv, Tshuva competed in a wheelchair dash and in slalom.^[2] He was also a member of the gold-medal winning men's wheelchair basketball team.

In 2007 Tshuva was honored with a distinction by ILAN.^[3] In June 2011 he was elected as a member of the council of "BeMa'avak" – an umbrella organization for the rights of people with disabilities in Israel.^[4]

References

^ Abraham Tshuva in the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled website
^ Avraham Tshuva at the International Paralympic Committee
^ News archive in ILAN's website (Hebrew)
^ Election results (Hebrew)

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[1] Abraham Tshuva in the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled website

[2] Avraham Tshuva at the International Paralympic Committee

[3] News archive in ILAN's website (Hebrew)

[4] Election results (Hebrew)

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