Roni Ohayon
Israeli Paralympic goalball player
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Roni Ohayon (Hebrew: רוני אוחיון; born 8 March 1999) is an Israeli Paralympic goalball player who plays a centre and for the Israeli national goalball team. She competed for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics in the Women's goalball tournament, where she and Team Israel won a silver medal.
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| Native name | רוני אוחיון | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 March 1999 Beersheba, Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Goalball | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life
Ohion was born on 8 March 1999 in Beersheba[1] with a number of visual impairments including: blindness in the left eye, difficulty seeing in the distance in the right eye, vision in light and more. She has been involved in sports since childhood in athletics, including high jump, long jump and floor gymnastics for the visually impaired. In the 4th grade, she started practicing goalball at the center for the blind in Bere, but the group was closed after six months and reopened only when she entered the 8th grade.
Goalball career
At the age of 13, Ohayon joined the reserve team and later moved up to the senior team. In May 2014, she participated in the first competition which was a preparatory competition for the World Championship which took place in July of that year. In 2016, she competed in the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro.[2] In 2021, she competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.[3]
She competed for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics in the Women's goalball tournament, where she and the Israel women's national goalball team won a silver medal.[4][5][6]
Personal life
Ohayon currently resides in Ramat Gan.[7]
