Esther Roth-Shahamorov
Esther Roth-Shahamorov (Hebrew: אסתר רוט-שחמורוב; born April 16, 1952) is a former Israeli track and field athlete.Esther Shahamorov was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family.At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Roth just barely missed qualifying for the final in the 100-meter sprint.She qualified for the 100-meter hurdles semifinal, but withdrew from the Games, together with the remaining members of the Israel Olympic team, after the murder of her longtime coach, Amitzur Shapira, and ten other members of the Israeli team, by Palestinian terrorists.[9][10] She appears in the 1999 Oscar-winning documentary One Day in September in which she gave her impressions and feelings during the 1972 Munich Athletes hostages crisis.