Amnon Weiss

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Amnon Weiss
Sport
Country Israel
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympic Games 1 1 2
Representing  Israel
Summer Paralympic Games
Athletics
Silver medal – second place 1968 Tel Aviv Shot Put D[1]
Bronze medal – third place 1968 Tel Aviv Javelin D[2]
Bronze medal – third place 1968 Tel Aviv Discus throw D[3]
Wheelchair basketball
Gold medal – first place 1968 Tel Aviv wheelchair basketball[4]
Stoke Mandeville Games
Athletics
Gold medal – first place 1962 Shot Put
Gold medal – first place 1962 Javelin
Gold medal – first place 1963 Javelin
Silver medal – second place 1967 Shot Put
Silver medal – second place 1967 Javelin
Bronze medal – third place 1967 Club throw
Bronze medal – third place 1967 Discus

Amnon Weiss (

paralympic
champion.

Weiss has a light disability due to

Bar Ilan University
. Later on he studied law.

A member of the Israeli delegation to the

discus) and was the national champion in shot put. At the Paralympic Games Weiss was a member of the gold medal-winning wheelchair basketball team and won three medals in athletics.[6]

In the early 1970s, Weiss and his wife Daniela were among the founding members of Gush Emunim, later settling in Kedumim where Daniela was elected to head the local council. Their son-in-law Avraham Gavish was killed in a terrorist attack in 2002.

Weiss was the owner of a goldsmith business, later dealing with real-estate[7] and in 2005 investing in the establishment of Gvaot Winery.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Mens Shot Put D". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  2. ^ "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Mens Javelin D". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  3. ^ "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Athletics - Mens Discus Throw D". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  4. ^ "Results Archive - Tel Aviv 1968 - Wheelchair Basketball - Mens Tournament". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  5. ^ נכים מישראל הצטיינו בתחרויות בינלאומיות, מעריב, 13/8/1962 (Hebrew)
  6. ^ "Amnon Weiss". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee.
  7. ^ אלעזר לוין, אמנון וייס קנה חנות בכיכר המדינה בת"א ב-500 אלף דולר, גלובס Archived October 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine. (Hebrew)
  8. ^ ורד קלנר, ענבי זעם, גלובס, 7/10/2008 Archived October 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (Hebrew).

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