Avraham Tshuva
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympic Games 1 0 0
Representing  Israel
Summer Paralympic Games
Wheelchair basketball
Gold medal – first place 1968 Tel Aviv wheelchair basketball[1]

Avraham Tshuva (Hebrew: אברהם תשובה) 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.[2]

In the 1968 Summer Paralympics held in Tel Aviv, Tshuva competed in a wheelchair dash and in slalom.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Wheelchair Basketball - Mens Tournament". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  2. ↑ Abraham Tshuva in the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled website
  3. ↑ "Avraham Tshuva". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee.
  4. ↑ News archive in ILAN's website (Hebrew)
  5. ↑ Election results (Hebrew)
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