Lydia Lazarov (; born 16 January 1946) is an Israeli former sailing world champion.

Biography

Lazarov is Jewish, and was born in

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Sailing career

Lazarov and

Zefania Carmel Zefania Carmel (; born December 21, 1940, in Baghdad, Iraq; died September 1980) was an Israeli yachting world champion. Yachting career Carmel partnered with Lydia Lazarov to win the Israeli yachting championship in 1966 in the 420-Class. They w ...

were teammates in the Zevulun Sailing Club in

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, Israel. They won the 1966 Israeli

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-class national championship.סיפורי בת-ים: העיר ממנה הגיעו אלופי העולם הישראלים הראשונים

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Lazarov and Carmel also won the 1969 world title in the Team 420 Sailing Class, at

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, Sweden, where other 64 boats from 16 countries competed. They were the first world champions in any sport representing Israel.Sea Sports in Israel Are Ahead of the Games

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Next year, at the

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held in

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in 1970, Lazarov won the title of world champion in singles in the 420 class, and finished in doubles (along with

) in fifth place. Lazarov was inducted into the

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in 1992.

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Biography

Sailing career

See also

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