Another huge achievement for Israeli sports – the silver medal at the World Championship in Katter. The crowd booed the Israeli

The Israeli swimmer, Anastasia Gorbenko won the silver medal in the 400m individual medley at the World Championships in Qatar. When she stood on the podium in the relay after rising from fifth place in the qualifiers. After the anointing, during the interview, the Qatari audience responded with shameful boos towards her.
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Gorbenko was within touching distance of the winner until the final seconds of the heat and finished in a time of 4:37.36 minutes, 24 hundredths off the 4:37.14 of Britain’s Freya Colbert who won gold.

Gorbenko was interviewed after the anointing, against the backdrop of shameful Bush chants from the Qatari audience: “”I am pleased to be here. To represent the flag of Israel is amazing for me.”

Then Gorbenko added: “I want to say thank you to everyone who watched and cheered from the country, I know that many of you were under stress, like all of us, and I am very happy to do it on the soil of Qatar with the Israeli flag on me. I am proud of myself, it was a difficult week with many Ups and downs and emotions, so to end it with a silver medal is an amazing feeling. It brings me a lot of confidence for the Olympic year. I saw throughout the race that I was in a good place, I tried to enjoy it and not think too much. We saw in the last 100 meters that we were head to head, in – The last 15 meters I saw black and lost by a touch, but that’s part of the sport and I’m still really happy to do it in Qatar.”

Minister of Culture and Sports Miki Zohar said: “An amazing achievement for Israel with a particularly impressive silver medal for the champion Anastasia Gorbenko, which includes a new and exciting Israeli record in the swimming industry. And in response to the boos in the hall – we showed that the people of Israel are alive and proud of their achievements. No one will ever take that away from us.”

The Israeli Olympic Committee stated: “We all watched with bated breath Anastasia Gorbenko in a historic moment on the soil of Qatar, establishing her position as a world-class swimmer in an important and symbolic championship with the Israeli flag and our representative on the podium.”

“The joint effort to bring the Israeli swimming delegation to Qatar is important and significant with the great success of Anastasia, two tickets to the Olympic Games of Matan Roditi and the artistic swimming duet and the Israeli flag that flies high in Beit Qatar on such difficult and complex days for the Israeli people. We are proud of our swimmers and water sports athletes and thank For everyone who did the work behind the scenes, there are many good ones. The nation of Israel lives.”

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