Maya Kalle-Bentzur
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| Birth name | מיה קלה-בנצור | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | September 5, 1958 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track & field | ||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 100 metre dash; long jump; triple jump | ||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Northern Arizona University | ||||||||||||||||||
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Maya Calé-Benzoor (also "Kalle-Bentzur"; מיה קלה-בנצור; born September 5, 1958) is an Israeli former Olympic runner and long jumper.
Calé-Benzoor set the Israeli indoor long jump record (6.13 metres). She was a medalist at the 1973 Maccabiah Games, and at the 1981 Maccabiah Games she won the gold medal in the long jump. She won a bronze medal in the triple jump at the European Masters’ Championships in 2001.
She was born in Israel, and is Jewish.
Calé-Benzoor has a B.Ed. in Physical Education from Northern Arizona University (1984), where she set the school outdoor long jump record at 20' 6" (6.10 metres), NAU records in both the women's indoor and outdoor long (20' 6".00) and triple jumps (41' 3".75), and 40' 5".00 in the indoor triple jump. She placed third in the triple jump at the 1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships meet. Calé-Benzoor was an NCAA All American in 1984. In 1989 she was inducted into the NAU Athletic Hall of Fame.
She also has a Diploma in Physiotherapy Studies from Wingate Institute in Israel (1981), a Master’s Degree in Sport Injury Rehabilitation from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia (1990), and a PhD in Welfare and Health Studies from Haifa University.
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