Maayan Davidovich (; born May 21, 1988) is an Israeli Olympic
windsurfer
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.
Biography
Davidovich is Jewish, and her hometown is
Herzliya
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, Israel.
She competes with the club
Hapoel Tel Aviv.
She started sailing at the age of five, and surfing at 13. Her parents enjoy watersports, and her brothers and twin sister were all windsurfing champions. She made her international competitive debut in the 1999
Optimist European Championships, in Greece.
In July 2005, she came in fourth in the
Mistral – Women 35th Volvo Youth Sailing
International Sailing Federation
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(ISAF) World Championship, in
Busan
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, Korea.
In July 2006, she won a
silver medal
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at the
RS:X – Women Volvo Youth Sailing ISAF World Championship, in
Weymouth, Great Britain.
In 2007, she finished 15th in the European Championships.
She competed on behalf of
Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics at the age of 19 in
Beijing
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, China, in the
women's sailboard windsurfing event, and came in 10th.
In June 2009, she came in seventh in the RS:X – Women European Championship, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
In May 2011, she came in fourth in the RS:X – Women
Delta Lloyd Regatta, in
Medemblik
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, The Netherlands.
In both 2013 (when she was ranked 10th in the world in December) and 2014 (when she was ranked 14th in the world), she was the ISAF Worlds RS:X bronze medalist.
She represented
Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics, coming in 7th place in the RS:X.
See also
*
List of World Championships medalists in sailing (juniors and youth classes)
References
External links
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1988 births
Living people
Israeli windsurfers
Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – RS:X
Sailors at the 2016 Summer Olympics – RS:X
Olympic sailors for Israel
Israeli female sailors (sport)
Jewish sailors (sport)
21st-century Israeli Jews
Sportspeople from Herzliya
Israeli twins
Female windsurfers
21st-century Israeli sportswomen