Tamara Metal
{{Short description|Israeli athlete (1933–2022)}}
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| birth_name = תמר מיטל-שומכר
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| nationality = Israeli
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1933|12|26}}
| birth_place = Poland
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|7|15|1933|12|26|df=yes}}
| death_place = Israel
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| sport = Basketball; Track & field
| event = High jump; Long jump
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| pb = *high jump: 1.50 (1952)
- long jump: 5.34 (1952)
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Tamara Metal (-Shumacher; also "Matal"; {{Langx|he|תמר מיטל-שומכר}}; 26 December 1933 – 15 July 2022){{Cite web |last=ממן |first=אסי |date=15 July 2022 |title=תמר מטל-שומכר, אגדה אולימפית, הלכה לעולמה |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/sport/article/one414790 |website=Ynet}} was an Israeli former Olympic high jumper and long jumper, and former captain of the Israel women's national basketball team.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/tamar-metal-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418111621/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/me/tamar-metal-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2020|title=Tamar Metal Bio, Stats, and Results|publisher=sports-reference.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/49947911/|title= Page 6|work=The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle}}{{cite web|url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/sport-yishuv-to-present|title=Sport: Yishuv to the Present|publisher=Jewish Women's Archive}}
Early and personal life
Metal was born in Poland to a Jewish family who immigrated to Israel (then Palestine) in 1935, when she was two years old.[http://jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=425 "Matal, Tamar"] She married "Shumi" Shumacher, who organized the third through seventh Maccabiah Games.
Sports career
Her personal bests were 1.50 in the high jump, and 5.34 in the long jump (both in 1952).
In 1950, Metal was captain of the Israel women's national basketball team, and also competed in the high jump and the long jump.
Metal competed for Israel at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki at the age of 18. She was Israel's flag-bearer at the Games, and captained Israel's track and field team. In the Women's High Jump she came in 17th with a height of 1.40, and in the Women's Long Jump she came in 29th with a distance of 5.16.
She was chosen as torch bearer at the 1973 Maccabiah Games, but Metal recited the Vow of the Maccabiah Games instead because she was pregnant. In 1976, she was chosen by the International Olympic Committee to travel to Greece and participate in the lighting of the Olympic Torch which would be carried to Montreal, for the Olympic Games. After she stopped competing herself, she coached women's basketball.
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Category:Israeli female long jumpers
Category:Israeli female high jumpers
Category:Jewish Israeli sportspeople
Category:Jewish track and field athletes
Category:Polish emigrants to Israel
Category:Israeli women's basketball players
Category:Olympic athletes for Israel
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics