Diana Vaisman
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Nationality | Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Minsk, Belarus | 23 July 1998||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg (123 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 m, 200 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Maccabi Rishon LeZion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Irina Vaisman and Irina Lenskiy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Diana Vaisman (or Weissman,[2][3][4][5] Belarusian: Диана Вейсман, Hebrew: דיאנה ויסמן; born 23 July 1998) is a Belarusian-born Israeli track and field athlete and sprinter.[6] She holds the Israeli national record in the 100 metre sprint.
Early and personal life
[edit]Vaisman was born in Minsk, Belarus, to Irena and Vladimir Vaisman.[7] Her family immigrated to Israel with her, when she was two years old.[7] They reside in Ashkelon, Israel.[7][8][9] Her mother Irina Vaisman is a former athlete and a current coach, and coaches her as does Irina Lenskiy.[7] Vaisman's family is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.[10][11][12][13][14]
She was enlisted and served as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.[8][3][15]
She married her Israeli boyfriend Max Shvarzman on 7 April 2022.[16][17][18][19][20]
Running career
[edit]Vaisman's club is Maccabi Rishon LeZion.[7]
60 metres
[edit]Vaisman represented Israel in the 60 metres at two European Athletics Indoor Championships, in 2017 and 2019, reaching the semifinals on the second occasion. In February 2018 she won a bronze medal in the 60 m sprint with a time of 7.49 at the 2018 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.[21] In January 2019 at the 2019 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Indoor Championships in Miramas, France, she won a bronze medal in the 60 metres with a time of 7.45.[22] In February 2019 she won a gold medal in the 60 m sprint with a time of 7.34 at the 2019 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul.[23]
In a competition held in Rishon LeZion on February 27, 2022 she set a new Israeli record of 7.23 seconds in the 60 meters race. A week later, in a competition held at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France on March 6, she finished fourth in the 60 meters race with a new Israeli record of 7.23 seconds.
100 metres
[edit]In July 2017 at the 2017 Maccabiah Games she set the Games record in the 100 m dash with a time of 11.71.[24] In June 2018 at the 2018 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships in Jesolo, Italy, Vaisman won a silver medal in the 100 metres with a time of 11.59.[25]
Vaisman is Israel's national record holder in the 100 metres (11.38 seconds), having in July 2018 at 19 years of age at the Israel Athletic Championship in Tel Aviv broken a long-standing 46-year record of Esther Roth-Shahamorov going back to the 1972 Summer Olympics.[26][8] In June 2019 at the 2019 European Games, Vaisman set a new Israeli national record in the 100 metres, running it in 11:35 seconds.[27] In July 2019 she ran the 100 metres in 11.27 at the 83rd Israel Athletic Championships, lowering her Israeli national record.[28] In 2019, she competed in the women's 100 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar.[29] She did not qualify to compete in the semi-finals.[30]
At the Israeli Championships held at the Givat Ram Stadium in Jerusalem she won the gold medal in the 100 meters race with a time of 11.28 seconds, ahead of Alina Droutman from Leader Jerusalem (11.90 seconds) and Ilanit Dorfman from Hapoel Holon (12.13 seconds). In the preliminaries she set a new Israeli record of 11.22 seconds.
At a competition held in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland on July 3 that year she won the gold medal in the 100 meters race with a new Israeli record of 11.06 seconds, ahead of Dafne Schippers from the Netherlands (11.13 seconds).
At the 2022 European Athletics Championships held in Munich she ran the 100m in 11.29 seconds and did not advance to the semifinals, although she was less than a tenth of a second away from qualifying.
International competitions
[edit]Personal bests
[edit]Outdoor
- 100 metres – 11.27 (+0.5 m/s, Tel Aviv 2019)
- 200 metres – 23.78 (-0.9 m/s, Tel Aviv 2018)
Indoor
- 60 metres – 7.32 (Glasgow 2019)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Diana Vaisman - Player Profile - Athletics". Eurosport.
- ^ "Diana Weissman Photostream". Zimbio.
- ^ a b Rubinstein, Adi. "Sprinter Diana Weissman breaks 46-year women's 100-meter record". Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "A new Israeli record for Diana Weissman in the 100 meters". 26 June 2022.
- ^ "21st Balkan Indoor Championships 2016 Istanbul, TUR --- Results (Women's) --- Balkan-Athletics.EU" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Diana Vaisman at World Athletics
- ^ a b c d e פורת, אבינעם (21 November 2014). "כוכבת בהרצה: סיפורה של דיאנה וייסמן". ynet.
- ^ a b c "Israeli sprinter breaks country's record set at 1972 Munich Olympics". 9 July 2018.
- ^ "מדליית ארד לאצנית דיאנה ויסמן מאשקלון". ashkelonim.co.il.
- ^ "Diana Vaisman on Instagram: "אני והמדים שאני רואה פעם בשנה🙃"".
- ^ "Diana Vaisman on Instagram: ""מכל האהבות שיש לחלום, ביקשתי לי אותך" היום שלנו 7.4.22 💍 @max_shvarzman"".
- ^ "Max Shvarzman on Instagram: "Cheers to love and happy marriage ❤️"".
- ^ "Max Shvarzman on Instagram: "07.04.22 התאריך המשמעותי ביותר בחיי ללא ספק ! חיכיתי לרגע הזה 10 שנים מהיום שפגשתי אותך ידעתי שאת תהיה אישתי אני מודה לך על הכל על כל רגע שאת לצידי ! חלמתי לראות את הרגע הזה שאת צועדת לעברי בשמלת כלה נרגשת וכל כך טהורה ויפה כמו שאת תמיד ! והרגע הזה הגיע ! אישתי היקרה אני אוהב אותך ויאהב עד סוף ימי את כל עולמי ❤️"".
- ^ "Max Shvarzman on Instagram: "חג שמח לי ולאושר הפרטי שלי ❤️"".
- ^ ""BALKAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS"" (PDF).
- ^ "les Résultats des Compétitions". bases.athle.fr.
- ^ Baronet, Carles (17 February 2019). "- TRACK AND FIELD RESULTS WORLDWIDE - : Istanbul (Turkey), 16.2.2019 -Balkan Championships- (indoor)". Archived from the original on 28 July 2019. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ "World Junior Athletics News NZL". www.worldjuniorathleticsnewsnzl.co.nz.
- ^ "3rd U23 Mediterranean Athletics Championships"
- ^ staff, T. O. I. "After 46 years, sprinter breaks Israeli women's 100 meter record". www.timesofisrael.com.
- ^ "Plenty of hardware for Israelis in Minsk". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. 26 June 2019.
- ^ "Diana VAISMAN | Profile". www.worldathletics.org.
- ^ "Women's 100 metres – Start List" (PDF). 2019 World Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Women's 100 metres – Heats" (PDF). 2019 World Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
External links
[edit]- Diana Vaisman at World Athletics
- Diana Vaisman at Olympedia
- Diana Vaisman at Olympics.com
- Diana Vaisman at the Olympic Committee of Israel (archived) (in Hebrew)
- Diana Vaisman at The-Sports.org
- Diana Vaisman on Instagram
- Diana Vaisman on Facebook
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Israeli female sprinters
- Belarusian people of Jewish descent
- Belarusian emigrants to Israel
- Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent
- People from Ashkelon
- Sportspeople from Southern District (Israel)
- Athletes from Minsk
- Competitors at the 2017 Maccabiah Games
- Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel
- Maccabiah Games medalists in athletics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 European Games
- Olympic athletes for Israel
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic female sprinters
- Israeli Ashkenazi Jews
- European Games competitors for Israel
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Israel