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Hagai Zamir (Hebrew: חגי זמיר, born 1951) is an Israeli paralympic volleyball champion.




Biography


Hagai Zamir was born on Kibbutz Zikim. He served with the IDF's Paratroopers Brigade. On January 2, 1970, during the War of Attrition, Zamir was sent with his unit to the island of Shadwan as part of Operation Rhodes. Zamir and two comrades were injured by a mine. Zamir's left leg was amputated. After six months of rehabilitation he returned to the kibbutz and worked in the cotton fields. He also went back to playing volleyball, now on a team for the disabled.
Zamir is married and father of two. He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.




Sports career


Zamir was an active member of the disabled volleyball team for 30 years, taking part in seven Paralympic Games. He is a certified volleyball and tennis coach. He has been teaching in schools since 1982 and in 1992 he also became a coach of Kfar Saba's municipal team. Several of his teams won national championships.




See also


Sports in Israel
List of select Jewish volleyball players




References






External links


Hagai Zamir at the International Paralympic Committee
Hagai Zamir Archived 2021-05-18 at the Wayback Machine at World ParaVolley

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• Daftar penerima Penghargaan Israel
• Hagai Zamir
• Zamir (name)
• Haggai (disambiguation)
• Zikim
• Volleyball at the Summer Paralympics
• Volleyball at the 1980 Summer Paralympics
• Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
• Volleyball at the 1976 Summer Paralympics
• Volleyball at the 1984 Summer Paralympics
• Volleyball at the 1992 Summer Paralympics