Moshe Weinberg - wrestling referee
Died at the age of 33. He was an outstanding wrestler
with Hapoel Haifa and the Israeli national team.
He was the youth and adult Greek-Roman style
champion for 8 years. He also served as the coach
of Hapoel Tel Aviv and the Israeli national team.

                      Eliezer Halffin - wrestler
Died at the age of 24. He was born in the Soviet Union
where he spent 11 years specializing in free-style,
light weight wrestling. He achieved fourth place in the
Soviet national youth championships. Following immigration
to Israel, he was a leading wrestler with Hapoel Tel Aviv
and the Israeli national team. He finished 12th in the
world free-style championships.

                       Mark Slavin - wrestler
Died at the age of 18. He was born in the Soviet Union
where he recorded a number of notable achievements.
In February 1972, he won the Soviet Roman-Greek style
wrestling championships. In May of that year, he immigrated
to Israel and joined Hapoel Tel Aviv and the Israeli Olympic team.

                       Ze'ev Friedman - weight lifter
to Israel in 1960. He began his sporting career as a gymnast
but was drawn to weightlifting. He was a member of Hapoel
Kiryat Haim and was the Israeli rooster-weight weightlifting
champion for 7 years. In 1969, he achieved 7th place in the
world championships in Warsaw and third place in the Manila
Games in 1971. He finished 12th at the Munich Olympic Games,
breaking 3 Israeli records in the process.

Joseph Romano - weight lifter
Died at the age of 32. He was born in Libya, and he was a
member of the Israeli national team and champion of Israel
for 10 years. In the last years of his life, he acted as coach
and manager of the weightlifting department of Hapoel Tel Aviv
where he was a member for 14 years.

Kahat Shor - shooting coach
Died at the age of 53. He was born in Romania and was a member
of Hapoel Tel Aviv. He chalked up many impressive achievements
in the field of shooting and became coach at Hapoel Tel Aviv.
He was appointed shooting coach of the Israeli national team for
the Asian Games in Bangkok and prepared the national Olympic
team for the 20th Olympiad in Munich.

David Berger - weight lifter
Died at the age of 28. He was born in the United States where
he was national youth middleweight weightlifting champion.
After immigrating to Israel, he joined Maccabi Tel Aviv and
won the Israeli national middle heavyweight championships.
He won a silver medal at the Asian Games in Manilla.

Joseph Gottfreund - wrestling referee
Died at the age of 40. He was born in Romania, where he recorded
several notable achievements as a wrestler. After immigrating to Israel,
he joined Hapoel Jerusalem and was responsible for the heavy athletics
department at the club. He completed an international referee's course
and recorded a number of impressive achievements as a wrestling referee,
refereeing at the 1968 Tokyo Olympics and the world championships
in India and Bulgaria before being invited by the Olympic Committee
to be a referee at the Munich Games.

Andrei Schpitzer - fencing referee
Died at the age of 27. He was born in Romania, where he began
his fencing career. Following immigration to Israel, he joined the
fencing section at Maccabi Ramat Gan where he had an outstanding
career. He ran the fencing course at the Wingate Institute coaches'
school and was appointed Israeli national fencing team coach.

Amitsur Shapira - athletics coach
Died at the age of 40. He was born in Israel, and was one of the
top short distance runners in Israel in the 1950s. He qualified
as a physical education teacher and became an athletics coach.
He devoted much of his time to training young athletes, his most
notable achievement being the discovery of Esther Roth-Sachmorov.
He coached Roth-Sachmorov during the last six years of his life
and helped her to many achievements and to world fame.

Yaakov Springer - weightlifting referee
Died at the age of 50. He was born in Poland, where he
was leading wrestler and weight lifter, representing his country
in many competitions. When he immigrated to Israel in 1956 he
devoted himself to teaching physical education in Jaffa and
Bat-Yam. He was appointed Israeli national weightlifting coach
and trained referees. He achieved an international reputation as a referee.
The Munich Games were the fifth Olympiad he attended as referee.