Shaul Ladany
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Shaul Ladany (center), winner of 10-km walk, on podium during 8th Maccabiah Games at Ramat Gan Stadium (1969)
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| Native name | שאול לדני | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Israeli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ethnicity | Jewish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | Israeli | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 2, 1936 Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
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| Residence | Omer, Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Occupation | Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Management | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Employer | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 148 lb (67 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Racewalking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| World finals | Gold medal in 100-km walk at 1972 World Championships (9:31:00) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National finals | National Championships: 28 Israeli, 6 U.S., 2 Belgian, 1 Swiss, and 1 South African. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | 50-km walk: 4:17:06 (1972) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shaul Paul Ladany (Hebrew: שאול לדני; born April 2, 1936) is an Israeli Holocaust survivor, racewalker and two-time Olympian. He set and still holds the world record in the 50-mile walk (7:23:50), and the Israeli national record in the 50-kilometer walk (4:17:07). He is a former world champion in the 100-kilometer walk.
Ladany survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944, when he was eight years old. In 1972, he survived the Munich Massacre. He is now a Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben Gurion University, has authored over a dozen books and 120 scholarly papers, and reportedly speaks nine languages. He lives in Omer, Israel.
Asked if it would be fair to call him the ultimate survivor, Ladany laughed and answered: "I don't know about that. What I can say is that in my life there has never been a dull moment."
Ladany was born to a Jewish family in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He has a sister, Marta. He and his wife Shosh have been married for over 50 years, and have a daughter and three grandchildren who live in Modi'in.
During the Holocaust in Europe, Ladany's maternal grandmother and grandfather were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where, Ladany has said, they "were made into soap."
In April 1941, when he was five years old, the Germans attacked Belgrade and the Luftwaffe bombed his home. His parents fled with him to Hungary. There, when he was eight years old they tried to hide him in a monastery for safekeeping, warning him to keep secret the fact that he was Jewish. He was terrified the entire time that he would be discovered, but says that after that experience he wasn't afraid of anything.
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