Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or

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Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or
נמרוד שפירא בר אור
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Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or in 2012
Personal information
Full name Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or
National team  Israel
Born (1989-04-25) April 25, 1989 (age 35)
Jerusalem, Israel
Height Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).
Weight 195 lb (88 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
College team University of Arizona

Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or (Hebrew: נמרוד שפירא בר אור‎; born April 25, 1989) is an Israeli swimmer.

He and Arab-Israeli Olympic swimming hopeful Jowan Qupty were high school roommates and best friends. He won a silver medal in the 200 meter freestyle, and a bronze medal in the 400 meter freestyle, at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships. He won a silver medal in the 100 meter freestyle at the 2009 Maccabiah Games.

Shapira Bar-Or represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 100 meter and 200 meter freestyle, and has qualified to represent Israel at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Shapira Bar-Or is Jewish, and his hometown is Jerusalem, Israel.[1][2][3] Although he played basketball for a top Israeli junior team, a knee injury that he suffered at 11 years of age led him to shift his focus to swimming.[4]

Swimming career

High school

Shapira Bar-Or and fellow Israeli swimmer Jowan Qupty, who is a Christian Israeli Arab, had known each other when they were children, and swum together for the Jerusalem United swim club in Israel.[5][6] They attended The Bolles School, in Jacksonville, Florida, together.[3][7] There they were roommates for two years, swim team teammates, and became best friends.[5][6][8][9][10] Qupty's father, commenting on the friendship and teamwork between his Christian Arab Israeli son and his son's Jewish Israeli roommate/teammate, said: "Just to see them together after the race jumping and hugging each other; they were so happy. I was looking at them through my tears. Coming from our part of the world, you don't see that."[10] The younger Qupty observed that "people were amazed all the time" that he – a Palestinian – and a Jew could coexist, and Shapira Bar-Or said: "It shows how simple the situation is. If I can live with a Palestinian guy, I'm sure in our country we can live with a couple millions of Palestinians and Israelis together."[6]

In November 2006, he won the 200 yard freestyle (1:38.37) at the Florida State 1A Championships, and was runner-up in the 500 yard freestyle.[11][12][13] He was named Times-Union 2006 Florida All-First Coast Swimmer of the Year.[4][12]

College

After high school, Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or attended the University of Arizona, where he majors in Management Information and Systems in the Eller College of Management.[3] In 2009, he was a silver medalist at the NCAA Championships at College Station, Texas as part of the Arizona Wildcats 800 free relay team (6:11.82), and in 2010, he was a bronze medalist in the same event in Columbus, Ohio.[3][14] He was honored as a member of the Pac-10 All-Academic First Team.[3] He was named the Counsilman-Hunsaker National Collegiate Swimmer-of-the-Week on November 17, 2010, and again honored in 2011 as a member of the Pac-10 All-Academic First Team.[3][15] His fastest times in college competitions, through March 2011, were 19.92 in the 50 yard freestyle (2010), 42.37 in the 100 y freestyle (2011), 46.44 in the 100 y fly (2010), 1:33.50 in the 200 y freestyle (2010), 1:43.71 in the 200 y fly (2010), and 1:44.85 in the 200 y IM (2011).[16]

European Junior Championships

In July 2007, he won a silver medal at the European Junior Swimming Championships in the 200 m freestyle (1.50.36), in Antwerp, Belgium.[17] He finished behind Mikhail Polischuk of Russia. He also won a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle (3:54.83).[18][19]

Israeli national championships and records

In August 2007, he won a gold medal in the 400 m freestyle (3:55.23), and established the Israeli 18-and-under national record in the 200 m freestyle (1:50.06) at the Israeli Summer National Championships.[20][21]

In March 2008, he swam on the team that set a new Israeli record in the 4×200 meter freestyle relay, at 7:20.87, at the 2008 European Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands.[22] In July 2008, he set a new Israeli record in the 200 meter freestyle, at 1:48.76 at the Croatian Open Championships in Dubrovnik, Croatia.[23] He broke his own national record in the 200 meter freestyle the next month at the Olympics.[24]

In July 2009, he set a new Israeli record in the 100 meter freestyle, at 48.93, at the World Championships in Rome, Italy.[25] Also at the 2009 World Championships, he swam on the team that set a new Israeli record in the 4×100 meter medley relay, at 3:36.23.[26]

In August 2009, he won gold medals in the 50 m (22.75; surpassing the 14-year-old former record of 22.79 established by Yoav Bruck), 100 m (49.49), 200 m (1:49.36), and 400 m freestyle races at the Israeli Summer National Championships at Wingate Institute in Netanya.[27][28][29][30] In July 2010, he won gold medals in the 50 m, 100 m (49.89), 200 m, and 400 m freestyle races at the Israeli Long Course National Championships.[31]

Olympics

Shapira Bar-Or competed on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.[32] In the 100 meter freestyle he swam a 49.10 (a national record) and came in 26th, and in the 200 meter freestyle he swam a 1:47.78 (also a national record) in the first heat, and a 1:48.16 in the semi-finals, coming in 15th.[33] He was the first Israeli swimmer to compete in an Olympic semi-finals.[3]

He competed on behalf of Israel at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London.[34]

Maccabiah Games

He won a silver medal in the 100 m freestyle (49.02; behind Jason Lezak, and a new Israeli record) at the July 2009 Maccabiah Games.[35][36]

References

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