Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or
Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or in 2012
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| Full name | Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 Israel
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April 25, 1989 Jerusalem, Israel |
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| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 195 lb (88 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Arizona | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
Shapira Bar-Or is Jewish, and his hometown is Jerusalem, Israel. 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.
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. They attended The Bolles School, in Jacksonville, Florida, together. There they were roommates for two years, swim team teammates, and became best friends. 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." 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."
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