Rachel Tassa

Rachel Tassa
Personal information
Born1952
Sport
Country Israel
SportWheelchair basketball
Wheelchair fencing
Swimming
Medal record
Representing  Israel
Paralympic Games
Wheelchair fencing
Gold medal – first place 1972 Heidelberg Team
Bronze medal – third place 1972 Heidelberg Individual
Silver medal – second place 1976 Toronto Individual
Silver medal – second place 1980 Arnhem Team
Bronze medal – third place 1988 Seoul Team
Wheelchair basketball
Bronze medal – third place 1972 Heidelberg Women's tournament
Gold medal – first place 1976 Toronto Women's tournament
Silver medal – second place 1980 Arnhem Women's tournament
Silver medal – second place 1984 Stoke Mandeville Women's tournament
Swimming
Bronze medal – third place 1972 Heidelberg 100m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Toronto 50m butterfly

Rachel Tassa (born 1952) is a former Israeli wheelchair fencer and wheelchair basketball player. She won 11 Paralympic medals: two individual medals in wheelchair fencing, two medals in swimming and seven medals as a member of Israel's women's team in wheelchair basketball and wheelchair fencing.

Tassa contracted polio when she was 18 months old. At the age of 11, in 1964 she began her practice at the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled.[1]

At the 1972 Summer Paralympics, she won four medals: a gold medal in Women's Novices Foil and a bronze medal as a member of the women's wheelchair basketball team,[2] an individual bronze medal in women's foil[3] and a second bronze medal for swimming, reaching third place at the 100m freestyle tournament.[4] Tassa competed in other fencing and swimming events, setting high scores but failing to achieve further medals.[5]

At the 1976 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal as a member of the women's wheelchair basketball team[6] and two individual medals: a silver medal in women's foil[7] and a bronze medal competing at the women's 50m butterfly swimming event[8]

At the 1980 Summer Paralympics, she won two silver medals as a member of the women's foil team in wheelchair fencing[9] and the women's wheelchair basketball team.[10]

At the 1984 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal as a member of Israel's women's wheelchair basketball team.

At the 1988 Summer Paralympics, she won her final bronze medal with the women's wheelchair fencing foil team.[11]

  1. ^ רחל טסה סעיד (in Hebrew)
  2. ^ הצלחה לנכי ישראל בתחרויות הספורט בהיידלברג, מעריב, 6.8.1972 (in Hebrew)
  3. ^ "Heidelberg 1972 - Wheelchair Fencing - Women's Foil Individual". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  4. ^ "Heidelberg 1972 - Swimming - Women's 100 m Freestyle 5". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  5. ^ "Rachel Tassa-Said". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  6. ^ יובל לספורט הנכים, הוצאת מרכז הספורט לנכים של איל"ן, 1998 (in Hebrew)
  7. ^ "Toronto 1976 - Wheelchair Fencing - Women's Foil Individual 4-5". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  8. ^ "Toronto 1976 - Swimming - Women's 50 m Butterfly 5". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  9. ^ "Arnhem 1980 - Wheelchair Fencing - Women's Foil Team". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  10. ^ זהב לנכי ישראל בכדורסל וכדורעף, מעריב, 6.7.1980 (in Hebrew)
  11. ^ "Seoul 1988 - Wheelchair Fencing - Women's Foil Team". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2023-02-21.