Shaul Ladany

Shaul Ladany

Shaul Ladany is a two-time Olympian and two-time Survivor. The 88-year-old world record holder survived both the Holocaust and the 1972 Munich Massacre.

Born in Yugoslavia in 1936, Ladany was sent to the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany (where 100,000 Men, Women and Children – including Anne Frank – died) when he was 8 years old.

After surviving the Holocaust, he and his Family moved to Israel in 1948.

At 15 years old, Ladany won his first Competition in a 10k running race.

Ladany competed in the 1968 and 1972 Olympic Games as a Racewalker.

In 1972, he set a World Record in the 50-mile race walk and was one of the five Israeli Athletes who survived the Munich Massacre, where 11 of his Teammates were murdered during the Olympic Games by the Palestinian Terrorists Black September.

Throughout his career, Ladany won 28 National Titles in Israel, 5 Gold Medals at the Maccabiah Games, was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal by the International Olympic Committee, and in 2012, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.