Noa Malka
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| Native name | נועה מלכה | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 June 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Israel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Goalball | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Noa Malka (Hebrew: נועה מלכה; born 15 June 2003)[1] is an Israeli Paralympic goalball player. 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.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Malka was born with albinism and suffers from congenital visual defects. Malka grew up in Haifa, and after graduating from Urban High School A, she volunteered for two years for national service in the oncology department at the Sourasky Tel Aviv Medical Center.
Goalball career
[edit | edit source]Malka trains in goalball as part of Beit HaLochem in Tel Aviv and was added to the Israel women's national goalball team, with which she participated in the Tokyo Paralympic Games (2020).[2][3] In 2022, she participated with the national team in the World Championship held in Portugal, where she scored the first goal in a global competition.[4] At the World Championship they won a bronze medal and earlier that year the team won a gold medal at the World Teams Tournament held in Germany. As part of the junior team, Malka was also a partner in winning a silver medal at the 2022 European Under-19 Championship.[5]
She competed for Israel at the 2024 Paris Paralympics in the Women's goalball tournament, where she and Team Israel won a silver medal.[6][7][8]
References
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- ^ "Israel’s goalball team beats Brazil 8:4 in opening match at Paralympics," The Times of Israel.
- ^ "Israel's eighth medal: the goalball team advanced to the finals of the Paralympic Games," Davar.
- ^ "Goalball Women Competition Summary; South Paris Arena 6; As of 5 SEP 2024", Olympics.com.
External links
[edit | edit source]- 2003 births
- Living people
- Israeli blind people
- Israeli female goalball players
- Paralympic goalball players for Israel
- Paralympic silver medalists for Israel
- Paralympic medalists in goalball
- Goalball players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Goalball players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics
- 21st-century Israeli sportswomen