Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman

Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann

Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann
Personal information
Birth name	Lydia Hatuel
Nationality	Israeli
Born	(1963-08-15) August 15, 1963 (age 53) Casablanca, Morocco
Residence	Israel
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Event(s)	Foil
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	Los Angeles 1984 - 26th Barcelona 1992 - 23rd Atlanta 1996 - 13th
Highest world ranking	16th in the world in 1996 and 1997, reached the top 8
Medal record Women's fencing Representing  Israel Maccabiah Games 2001 Israel Individual Women's Foil

Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann (born August 15, 1963, in Casablanca, Morocco) is an Israeli fencer. One of Israel's top female fencers, she competed in the foil event at the 1984, 1992, and 1996 Olympiads. Her fencing career started at the age of 8, and she maintained an international ranking until 2004, and she still competed at the national level in 2012.

Hatuel-Czuckermann first won the Israeli national title in 1979, when she was sixteen. She eventually won the title more than 20 times, and was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

She missed her first chance at the Olympics at the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games because of the international boycott. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, she won all six of her bouts in the first round, but was eliminated in the second round. She finished in 26th place. She did not compete in the 1988 Seoul Olympics because the fencing competition fell on Yom Kippur.

At the 1992 Barcelona Games she finished in 23rd place. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, in which she was seeded number 12, she won her first match over Felicia Zimmerman of the USA, but lost 15-13 to number 5 seed Monika Weber-Koszto. She finished in 13th place. She also competed in the team foil event, along with Ayelet Ohayon, Lilach Parisky, and Ira Slivotsky. The Israelis, who were seeded number 9, lost to China in the first round (29–45), but defeated the United States (45–39). They finished in 9th place.