Michal Barel Hein (; born February 11, 1968) is an Israeli former Olympic
windsurfer
Windsurfing is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the Californian aerospace and surf culture. Windsurfing gain ...
.
She was born in
Rehovot
Rehovot (, / ) is a city in the Central District (Israel), Central District of Israel, about south of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of .
Etymology
Israel Belkind, founder of the Bilu (movement), Bilu movement, proposed the name "Rehovot ...
, Israel.
Windsurfing career
Hein's club was
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Hapoel Tel Aviv () is a sports club in Israel, founded in the 1920s, and part of the Hapoel association. It runs several sports clubs and teams in Tel Aviv which have competed in a variety of sports over the years, such as football, basketball, w ...
, based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
She finished 10th at the World Championships in February 2000.
Hein represented
Israel at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Israel competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 39 competitors, 29 men and 10 women, took part in 43 events in 9 sports. The delegation of 39 athletes was the biggest at the time, and third-biggest in history, after 2008 with 4 ...
, aged 32, in
Sydney, Australia
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, competing in
Sailing--Women's Women's Mistral One Design/Windsurfer, and placed 14th.
At the time of her Olympic competition, she stood at tall and weighed
.
References
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Living people
Israeli windsurfers
Olympic sailors for Israel
Israeli female sailors (sport)
1968 births
Sportspeople from Rehovot
Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Mistral One Design
Female windsurfers
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