Ze'ev Friedman
Ze'ev Friedman | |
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זאב פרידמן | |
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| Born | Ze'ev Shlomovich Friedman 10 June 1944 |
| Died | 6 September 1972 (aged 28) |
| Cause of death | Terrorist attack |
| Body discovered | Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base |
| Resting place | Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Occupation(s) | Gymnast,Weightlifter |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Father | Shlomo Friedman |
| Relatives | Nina Friedman(sister) |
Ze'ev Friedman (10 June 1944 – 6 September 1972) was an Israeli flyweight weightlifter. A member of the Israeli Olympic team, he was killed in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.[1]
Biography
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Ze'ev Friedman was born in Prokopyevsk, Soviet Union in 1944. In 1960, he moved from Poland to Israel. He began his sports career as a gymnast, but later switched to weightlifting. He was a member of Hapoel Kiryat Haim sports club.[2] He won a bronze medal at the 1971 Asian Weightlifting Championships.
In 1972, Ze'ev Friedman competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany as a weightlifter. He placed 12th, one of the best achievements of any Israeli athlete at the time. On 5 September, members of the Palestinian Black September group broke into the Israeli team's dormitory and took hostage several Israeli athletes and coaches including Friedman. After protracted negotiations, the kidnappers brought the hostages to an airport via helicopter and killed them during an attempted rescue by Munich police and Bavarian border guards. The autopsy report, by the Forensic Institute of the University of Munich, concluded that Friedman had died from internal bleeding and also noted that a watch worn by the 28-year old weight lifter was still ticking when the autopsy began, giving a time of 7:51pm.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Jewish Sports Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- ^ "Jewish Sports Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- ^ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg (4 December 2015). "Munich Olympic Terrorist Attacks: German Ex-Interior Minister Disputes Torture Claims - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
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Further reading
[edit]- Groussard, S. (New York, 1975), The Blood of Israel: The massacre of the Israeli athletes, The Olympics, 1972 ISBN 0-688-02910-8
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- 1944 births
- 1972 deaths
- People from Prokopyevsk
- 20th-century Israeli Jews
- Soviet Jews
- 20th-century Polish Jews
- Citizens of Israel through Law of Return
- Israeli male weightlifters
- Jewish Israeli sportspeople
- Jewish weightlifters
- Weightlifters at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic weightlifters for Israel
- Victims of the Munich massacre
- Deaths by firearm in Germany
- Polish emigrants to Israel
- Soviet emigrants to Poland