Gad Tsobari
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Gad Tsobari (
and was considered a possible medal threat at the Montreal Games of 1976.Tsobari was the sole survivor of the six athletes housed in Apartment 3 at 31 Connollystraße, which was the second apartment taken by Black September terrorists in the early morning hours of 5 September 1972 in an event called the Munich massacre.[citation needed]
Although he was originally taken hostage by the
Tsobari carried on sprinting for seventy metres until he came to the Olympic Village fence, which he jumped over. He then ran into the nearby Olympic press center.[2]
He was ignored for the first few seconds until taking a journalist aside and calmly explaining what had happened and who he was. After being escorted under police guard, Tsobari found a woman that spoke Hebrew and German. Over the next five hours he sketched on maps what had happened, how he had escaped, what kind of people, how many people were injured and how many terrorists.[2]
Nearly 18 hours later, Tsobari and the rest of the Israeli Olympians not taken hostage watched the helicopters take off for Fürstenfeldbruck airbase, where the remaining Israeli athletes taken hostage would be shot dead by the Palestinian terrorists, five of whom themselves were shot dead by German police snipers on 6 September.[3]
Family
Tsobari is the uncle of windsurfer and Olympic bronze medalist Shahar Tzuberi.[citation needed]
Personal life
Tsobari owns and runs a bar in Israel.[4]
References
- ^ Olympic results Archived 9 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ISBN 1559705477.
- ISBN 9780742567399.
- ^ "1972 Israeli Olympic Survivor Recalls Darkest Day in Sports". 20 July 2012.