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| Birth name | יואב כהן | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Israeli | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1999-08-30) 30 August 1999 (age 25) Ganei Yehuda, Israel | ||||||||||||||
| Sailing career | |||||||||||||||
| Class | RS:X | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Sdot Yam Sailing Club | ||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
| Olympic finals | 4th (2021) | ||||||||||||||
| World finals | 5th (2021) | ||||||||||||||
| Regional finals |  (2020) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Updated on 13 August 2021 | |||||||||||||||
Yoav Cohen (Hebrew: יואב כהן; born 30 August 1999) is an Israeli windsurfer. In 2020 he won the RS:X European Championships, and In 2021 he represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics and finished 4th in Men's RS:X.
Biography
His parents are Hananel and Isabel. Cohen was born in Ganei Yehuda, Israel, where until he was two years old his family lived in a trailer. He and his family then lived in kibbutz Kadima, and then in Caesarea, Israel.
His sailing club is Sdot Yam Sailing Club.
In 2013, at age 13, Cohen won the Techno 293 Under 15 World Championships in Sopot, Poland.
Cohen was the 2017 youth world champion, after winning the 47th Youth Sailing World Championships in Sanya, China.
He won the 2018 Medemblik Regatta (formerly Delta Lloyd Regatta) in Medemblik, the Netherlands.
Cohen won the gold medal at the 2020 RS:X European Championships in Vilamoura, Portugal.
He finished 5th at the 2021 RS:X World Championships in Cádiz, Spain.
In 2021, Cohen represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics and finished 4th in Men's RS:X event.
See also
- List of World Championships medalists in sailing (windsurfer classes)
- List of World Championships medalists in sailing (juniors and youth classes)
- List of European Championships medalists in sailing
- List of Jews in sports
References
- ^ "Yoav Cohen". sailing.org. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ "Above the Wave: Yoav Cohen's Stormy Road to the Gold Medal Israel today". newsrnd.com.
- "Sailing: COHEN Yoav". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
External links
- Yoav Cohen at World Sailing
- Yoav Cohen at Olympics.com
- Yoav Cohen at Olympedia (archive)
- Yoav Cohen at the Olympic Committee of Israel (archived) (in Hebrew)
- Yoav Cohen at The-Sports.org
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