Maya Calé-Benzoor

Maya Calé-Benzoor (also "Kalle-Bentzur"; Hebrew: מיה קלה-בנצור; born September 5, 1958) is an Israeli former Olympic runner and long jumper.^[1][2]

Maya Calé-Benzoor

Personal information
Birth name	מיה קלה-בנצור
Nationality	Israel
Born	(1958-09-05) September 5, 1958 (age 66)
Sport
Sport	Track & field
Event(s)	100 metre dash; long jump; triple jump
College team	Northern Arizona University
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	100 metre dash: 12.19 (1977) long jump: 6.27 (1984)
Medal record Track and field Representing  Israel Maccabiah Games 1981 Israel Women's long jump European Masters’ Championships 2001 Women's triple jump

Calé-Benzoor set the Israeli indoor long jump record (6.13 metres). She was a medalist at the 1973 Maccabiah Games, and at the 1981 Maccabiah Games she won the gold medal in the long jump. She won a bronze medal in the triple jump at the European Masters’ Championships in 2001.

She was born in Israel, and is Jewish.^[2]

Education

Calé-Benzoor has a B.Ed. in Physical Education from Northern Arizona University (1984), where she set the school outdoor long jump record at 20 ft 6 in (6.25 m), NAU records in both the women's indoor and outdoor long (20' 6".00) and triple jumps (41' 3".75), and 40' 5".00 in the indoor triple jump.^[3] She placed third in the triple jump at the 1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships meet.^[3] Calé-Benzoor was an NCAA All American in 1984.^[2][4] In 1989 she was inducted into the NAU Athletic Hall of Fame.^[3]

She also has a Diploma in Physiotherapy Studies from Wingate Institute in Israel (1981), a master's degree in Sport Injury Rehabilitation from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia (1990), and a PhD in Welfare and Health Studies from Haifa University.^[4]

Running and long jump career

Her personal bests were 12.19 in the 100 metre dash (in 1977), and 6.27 metres in the long jump (in 1984).^[1] She set the Israeli indoor long jump record (6.13 metres).^[2]

Calé-Benzoor was a medalist at the 1973 Maccabiah Games.^[4] At the 1981 Maccabiah Games she won the gold medal in the long jump.^[5]

Calé-Benzoor competed for Israel at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California at the age of 25.^[1] In the Women's 100 metres she came in 6th in Heat 5 with a time of 12.30 (missing qualifying for the next round by .04 seconds), and in the Women's Long Jump she came in 16th with a jump of 6.07 metres (missing qualifying for the next round by 0.12 metres).^[1][2][6]

She won a bronze medal in the triple jump at the European Masters’ Championships in 2001.^[4]

Career after the Olympics

Calé-Benzoor worked as a physiotherapist and clinic manager in Phoenix, Arizona, and Atlanta, Georgia, and became the First Head of the Women's Sports Committee at the Maccabi Israel Center.^[4] She was the Deputy Manager of the Physiotherapy Department at Wingate Institute, and is now the Director of Sports Injury Rehabilitation at Wingate Institute and a lecturer in the Physiotherapy Program at Haifa University.^[4]