Zefania Carmel was an Israel

Israel

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Yachting

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 world champion.

Yachting career

As teammates on Israel’s Zevulun Bat-Yam Club, the two won the Israeli Championship in 1966 in the 420-Class, and topped an international field of competition in the same event on New York’s Hudson River

Hudson River

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 in August 1967.

Carmel and Lydia Lazarov

Lydia Lazarov

-Yachting career:Lazarov and Zefania Carmel were teammates in the Zevulun Bateam Club in Israel. They won the 1966 Israeli 420-class national championship.Lazarov and Carmel also won the 1969 world title in the Team 420 Sailing Class, at Sandhem, Sweden...

, Israel’s first world champions in any sport, won their world title in 1969 in the Team 420 Non-Olympic Sailing Class at Sandham, Sweden

Sweden

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. Carmel also won the world championship in the individual event.

Carmel won the Israel National Individual event in 1970.

Link

• Jewish Sports bio