Amitzur Shapira and Esther Shachamarov in Munich 1972
Born
(1932-07-09)9 July 1932
Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine
Died
6 September 1972(1972-09-06) (aged 40)
Munich, Germany
Resting place
Kiryat Shaul cemetery
Nationality
Israeli
Occupation(s)
Sprinter, long jumper and track coach
Relatives
Shahak Shapira (grandson)
Amitzur Shapira (Hebrew: עמיצור שפירא; 9 July 1932 – 6 September 1972) was an Israeli sprinter and long jumper. He was head coach for the Israeli track and field team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich massacre.[1]
AmitzurShapira (Hebrew: עמיצור שפירא; 9 July 1932 – 6 September 1972) was an Israeli sprinter and long jumper. He was head coach for the Israeli track...
maternal grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. Shapira's paternal grandfather, AmitzurShapira, was an Israeli sprinter and a coach for the Israeli track and field...
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addition to Gutfreund, shooting coach Kehat Shorr, track and field coach AmitzurShapira, fencing master Andre Spitzer, weightlifting judge Yakov Springer,...
after the prisoner release). Spitzer was buried alongside teammates AmitzurShapira, Kehat Shorr, Eliezer Halfin, and Mark Slavin at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery...
politician, 13th United States Secretary of Defense (d. 2021) 1932 – AmitzurShapira, Israeli sprinter and long jumper (d. 1972) 1933 – Oliver Sacks, English-American...
Weinberg, 33, wrestling coach Yossef Gutfreund, 40, wrestling referee AmitzurShapira, 40, track and field coach Yakov Springer, 51, weightlifting judge...
wrestlers Mark Slavin and Eliezer Halfin, and coaches Kehat Shorr and AmitzurShapira. There is also a grave for the remains of the victims of the El Al...
was 5-4.5 (165 cm) tall and weighed 126 lbs (57 kg). Her coach was AmitzurShapira, an Israeli sprinter and long jumper in the 1950s and a coach for the...
senior commanders (Moshe Hason, Eliyahu Lankin, Yaakov Meridor, Bezalel Amitzur, and Hillel Kook), who were detained for more than two months, until 27...
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