Pascale Bercovitch
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Full name | Pascale Noa Bercovitch | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | Israeli French | ||||||||||||||
Born | Angers, France | August 21, 1967||||||||||||||
Website | www.pascale.org.il | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Kayak, Cycling, Rowing, Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Team | Israeli National Paralympic Team | ||||||||||||||
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Pascale Noa Bercovitch (Hebrew: פסקל ברקוביץ'; born August 21, 1967) is a Franco-Israeli writer, Israeli film director and paralympic athlete.
Early life
[edit]Bercovitch was born in France to Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. In her youth, she was a track and field champion of Picardy. On 13 December 1984, aged 17, she slipped while in a train station in Angers and got pulled under an incoming train, causing the amputation of both of her legs above the knee.[1] She was preparing at the time to immigrate to Israel, fulfilling her plans shortly later and volunteering to serve with the Israel Defense Forces. Following her military service she began practicing disabled sports, attempting to achieve the criteria for the 1992 Summer Paralympics.
Journalism and film
[edit]In the early 1990s, Bercovitch began working in different fields of communications, becoming a journalist, writer and a film director, while still practicing sports and delivering her first daughter. As a journalist, Bercovitch dealt with disabled people, serving as a journalist on the subject in a morning television show and directing three documentaries, one of which on the Israeli delegation to the 2000 Summer Paralympics. Throughout these years she was training herself in abseiling, mountain climbing and wheelchair dancing.
In 2008, Bercovitch directed a documentary titled Three Hundredths of a Second.
Paralympic sports career
[edit]Bercovitch was asked in 2007 to join the Israeli paralympic rowing team. While never practicing this sport, she had been given ten months to be included in the final list of participants to the 2008 Summer Paralympics. Her silver medal won at the 2008 World Rowing Cup competitions in Germany enabled her to do so. She was a rower at the 2008 Paralympics,[2] where she competed in the women's single sculls event but did not advance to the finals.
She competed in para-cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, placing sixth in handcycling[2] at the women's H4 events in road time trial (16 km) and road race (48 km).
Bercovitch then switched to paracanoe, competing in the women's kayak single KL2 200 m events at the 2015 World Championships,[2] the 2016 Summer Paralympics,[3] and the 2017 World Championships.[4]
Published works
[edit]- Oline, le dauphin du miracle (The dolphin's boy). Paris, 1999. ISBN 2-221-08907-3
Film productions
[edit]Title | Produced by | Directed by | Format | Length | Year | Country | Language | Awards |
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Three Hundredths of a Second | Pascale Noa Bercovitch | Pascale Noa Bercovitch | Documentary | 55mins | 2008 | Israel | Hebrew | 2006 Paralympic Film Festival, Hungary |
References
[edit]- ^ Autobiographical statement in Oline, le dauphin du miracle (see above).
- ^ a b c "Pascale Bercovitch". CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. 21 September 2019.
- ^ "BERCOVITCH Pascale – Rio 2016 Schedule & Results". Paralympic.org.
- ^ "Pascale Rachel Bercovitch – 2017 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Cup". Results.digicorp.hu.
- "Olympics-No obstacle too big for Israeli hand cyclist". Reuters. 10 July 2012.
Pascale Bercovitch
- "Knesset speaker meets with 14 women who will light Independence Day torches". Knesset.gov.il (Press release). 4 May 2014.
Pascale Bercovitch
- "Rio 2016: Paralympian Pascale Bercovitch's third act". SportsPro. 2 September 2016.
External links
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- Official website
(in Hebrew)
- Pascale Bercovitch at the International Canoe Federation
- Pascale Bercovitch at World Rowing
- Pascale Bercovitch at Paralympic.org
- Close B Final racing at the Paralympic Rowing Regatta – WorldRowing.com
- 1967 births
- Living people
- French emigrants to Israel
- French female rowers
- Israeli female rowers
- Israeli female cyclists
- Israeli female canoeists
- Israeli film directors
- Israeli people of French descent
- Israeli amputees
- Paralympic rowers for Israel
- Paralympic cyclists for Israel
- Paralympic canoeists for Israel
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- French amputees
- Film directors with disabilities
- French writers with disabilities