Esther Roth-Shahamorov
Esther Roth-Shahamorov (; born April 16, 1952) is a former Israeli track and field athlete. She specialized in the 100-meter hurdles and the 100-meter sprint. Early and personal life Esther Shahamorov was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family. In 1973, she married Peter Roth, a gymnast, who became her coach. She has a son, Yaron (born 1974), who was a national champion in fencing, and a daughter, Einat. After she retired from competitive sport she became a sports schoolteacher. Track career Records She once held simultaneously five Israeli national records. One of them is still a record and two others held for over 20 years. Her time of 11.45s in the 100m, set at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, was broken on Sat Apr 19, 2014, by Olga Lansky. Lansky's result though was vacated later the same year due to skipping mandatory drug test after the competition. Her time of 12.93s in the 100m hurdles, set in Berlin shortly after the 1976 Summer Olympics, stood as a national record for 26 years, until it was broken by Irina Lenskiy in 2002. Her time of 23.57s in the 200m, set in Stuttgart in 1975, held as