Avraham Keftelovitch

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Avraham Keftelovitch

Sport
Country	Israel
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Paralympic Games 1 1 4 Representing  Israel Summer Paralympic Games Swimming 1964 Tokyo 50 m Breaststroke Special class[1] 1964 Tokyo 50 m Freestyle Prone Special class[2] 1964 Tokyo Mixed Medley Relay Open[3] 1968 Tel Aviv 50 m Freestyle Class 4 incomplete[4] Wheelchair basketball 1968 Tel Aviv wheelchair basketball[5] 1964 Tokyo wheelchair basketball[6]

Avraham Keftelovitch (Hebrew: אברהם קפטלוביץ', born 1947) is an Israeli former paralympic swimmer.

At the 1964 Summer Paralympics, he won four medals, three of which in para swimming: a silver medal in the 50m breaststroke swimming tournament classified as special class, a bronze medal in 50m freestyle prone special class and a second bronze medal as a member of the relay swimming team for mixed medley (alongside Jacob Ben-Arie and Baruch Hagai). His fourth medal, also a bronze, was as a member of Israel's wheelchair basketball team. At the 1968 Summer Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in 50m freestyle swimming class 4 and a gold medal as a member of the Israeli national wheelchair basketball team.^[7]

Between 1969 and 1971 he was a professional wheelchair basketball player in Bulova, New York, United States and took part in the 1970 all star game.^{[citation needed]}

Keftlovitch lives in Oranit.

Avraham Keftelovitch at Paralympic.org