Abraham Shneior
{{short description|Israeli basketball player (1928–1998)}}
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| name = Abraham Shneior
אברהם שניאור
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1928|12|9}}
| birth_place = Mandatory Palestine
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|2|24|1928|9|12}}
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| nationality = Israel
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| career_start = 1945
| career_end = 1959
| career_position = Center
| career_number = 3
| coach_start = 1959
| coach_end = 1965
| years1 = 1945–1959
| team1 = Maccabi Tel Aviv
| cyears1 = 1959–1960
| cteam1 = Hapoel Holon
| cyears2 = 1961–1962
| cteam2 = Hapoel Haifa
| cyears3 = 1962–1963
| cteam3 = Hapoel Givat Brenner
| cyears4 = 1963–1964
| cteam4 = Maccabi Petah Tikva
| cyears5 = 1964–1965
| cteam5 = Hapoel Haifa
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As player:
- 5× Israeli Premier League champion (1954, 1955, 1957–1959)
- 3× Israeli State Cup winner (1956, 1958, 1959)
- Israeli Premier League Top Scorer (1954)
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{{MedalSport | Men's Basketball}}
{{MedalCountry | {{bk|ISR}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|Maccabiah Games}}
{{MedalSilver| 1953 Tel Aviv |}}
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Abraham Shneior (alternate spellings: "Avraham" and "Schneior", "Shneur", "Shneor", "Schneor", or "Shaneir"; Hebrew: אברהם שניאור; December 9, 1928 – February 24, 1998) was an Israeli basketball player and coach. During his club playing career, Shneior was the Israeli Premier League's Top Scorer in 1954. Shneior also represented Israel's national team at the 1952 Helsiniki Summer Olympic Games.{{cite Sports-Reference}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0bffAQAAQBAJ&q=shneior+basketball&pg=PT16|title=Sport, Politics and Society in the Land of Israel: Past and Present|first1=Yair|last1=Galily|first2=Amir|last2=Ben-Porat|date= 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317967903}}
Club career
Shneior, who was born in Mandatory Palestine, played club basketball with Maccabi Tel Aviv, of the Israeli Premier League. During his time with Maccabi, he was the captain of the team.
National team career
Shneior competed for the senior men's Israeli national team. He was the first Team Captain of Israel's national team. He was a part of the Israel at the 1952 Summer Olympics team in Helsinki, at the age of 23. He was the flag bearer for Team Israel at the Olympics. In the Olympic Basketball Tournament, the Israeli national team came in tied for 20th place, after losing to the Philippines, by a score or 57–47, in a game in which he scored 8 points, and losing to Greece, by a score of 54–52, in a game in which he scored 12 points. When he competed in the Olympics he was {{convert|6|ft|1|in|cm}} tall.
He won a silver medal with Team Israel in the 1953 Maccabiah Games.{{Cite web|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/09/29/83859077.html?pageNumber=33|title=LATE U. S. BASKET TOPS ISRAEL, 25-23; Groffsky Shot Wins Maccabiah Title – Host Team Defeats American Swimmers|website=timesmachine.nytimes.com}}
He was also on the Israeli national team in the 1954 FIBA World Championship, in which he led the team with an average of 10.8 points per game, and Israel came in 8th place out of 12 teams.{{cite web|url=https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/team/p/sid/2903/tid/306/_/1954_World_Championship_for_Men/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803060210/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/team/p/sid/2903/tid/306/_/1954_World_Championship_for_Men/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 3, 2010|title=Israel - 1954 World Championship for Men|publisher=FIBA.COM}}
While playing for Israel at the 1953 FIBA EuroBasket, he averaged 9.7 points per game, and while playing for Israel at the 1959 FIBA EuroBasket, he averaged 4.3 points per game.{{cite web|url=http://www.fibaeurope.com/compID_qMRZdYCZI6EoANOrUf9le2.season_1953.roundID_2244.teamID_306.html|title=Israel - European Championship for Men (1953) - FIBA Europe|publisher=}}
Coaching career
After he retired from playing club basketball, Shneior worked as a basketball coach. He was the head coach of the Israeli basketball clubs Hapoel Holon, Hapoel Haifa, Hapoel Givat Brenner, and Maccabi Petah Tikva.
References
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External links
- {{Basketball-Reference.com international player|abraham-shneior-1|Abraham Shneior}}
- {{Olympedia|100893|Abraham Shneior}}
- {{FIBA|new_id=165888|name=Abraham Schneior|old_id=68008}}
- {{FIBA|new_id=179486|name=Abraham Shaneir|old_id=82114}}
- {{Olympics.com profile|abraham-shneior|Abraham Shneior}}
{{Israeli Basketball Premier League Top Scorers}}
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Category:1954 FIBA World Championship players
Category:Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Category:Burials at Yarkon Cemetery
Category:Competitors at the 1953 Maccabiah Games
Category:Hapoel Haifa B.C. coaches
Category:Hapoel Holon B.C. coaches
Category:Israeli basketball coaches
Category:Israeli Basketball Premier League players
Category:Israeli men's basketball players
Category:Maccabiah Games medalists in basketball
Category:Maccabiah Games silver medalists for Israel
Category:Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. players