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Gal Fridman
Sailor, Olympic athlete
1975 –
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Who is Gal Fridman?
Gal Fridman is an Israeli windsurfer and Olympic gold medalist. Fridman won a bronze medal in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal in the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. He is the only Israeli athlete to win two Olympic medals, and the first Olympic gold medalist in Israeli history. Fittingly, his first name, Gal, means "wave" in Hebrew.
He was born in Karkur, Israel, and lives in nearby kibbutz Sdot Yam. In 2005, he was voted the 25th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet'
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