Ora Anlen

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Ora Anlen

Medal record
Paralympic Games
Swimming (Paralympics)
	1968 Tel Aviv	100m breaststroke
	1972 Heidelberg	50m breaststroke
	1976 Toronto	50m breaststroke
	1968 Tel Aviv	50m breaststroke
Athletics (Paralympics)
	1972 Heidelberg	shot put
	1976 Toronto	discus
	1976 Toronto	shot put
	1972 Heidelberg	discus
	1972 Heidelberg	pentathlon
	1976 Toronto	pentathlon
	1968 Tel Aviv	shot put
	1968 Tel Aviv	60m wheelchair
Wheelchair basketball (Paralympics)
	1972 Heidelberg	wheelchair basketball

Receiving Gold Medal in the 1968 Summer Paralympics

Ora Anlen (née Goldstein; Hebrew: אורה אנלין; born 15 August 1944) is an Israeli paralympic champion.

Anlen was born in Kibbutz HaMa'apil. As a young baby she contracted polio and remained paralyzed in both lower limbs. In 1964 she began practicing sports at the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled and was active in swimming, athletics and wheelchair basketball.

In 1966 she participated for the first time in an international competition. She won 5 medals in the Stoke Mandeville Games that year, and in 1968 won 4 medals and gained a world record during the 1968 Summer Paralympics. Anlen continued to excel, winning seven medals in the 1971 Stoke Mandeville Games, 5 medals in the 1972 Summer Paralympics, and 4 medals in the 1976 Summer Paralympics. Over the years she won 13 paralympic medals and held three world records.

Anlen is married since 1977 to , a delegate to the 1976 Summer Paralympics.

References[]

• Ora Anlen at the International Paralympic Committee