Tami Carmeli

Tami Carmeli

Personal information
National team	Israel
Born	(1939-12-19)19 December 1939
Sport
Country	Israel
Sport	Lawn bowls
Medal record Event 1st 2nd 3rd Paralympic Games 0 0 1 IBD/IBBA World Championships 0 5 4 Lawn bowls Representing Israel Paralympic Games 1996 Atlanta Women's singles LB6 IBBA World Championships 1993 Canada Mixed Pairs B1 2001 Girvan Mixed Pairs B1 2005 Johannesburg Mixed Pairs B1 IPC/IBD World Championships 1995 Aylesbury Women's singles B1 1998 Germiston Women's singles B1 2002 Adelaide Women's singles B1 2002 Adelaide Mixed Pairs B1 2011 Pretoria Mixed Pairs B1 2011 South Africa Women's singles B1

Tami Carmeli (Hebrew: תמי כרמלי, born 1939) is an Israeli lawn bowls player.

Career

Carmeli was a librarian in the Technion when she became blind in 1980. In 1988, she began playing lawn bowls.

Carmeli was the national champion in lawn bowls in classification B1 in the years 1991, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008 and 2012.

Carmeli took part in the International Blind Bowls Association World Championships of 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005, winning two silver medals (1993, 2005) and one bronze (2001) in the Mixed Pairs tournaments. She also competed in the world championships of the International Paralympic Committee in the years 1995, 1998 and 2002 and 2011 winning medals in both singles' tournaments and in the mixed pairs events.

At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, Carmeli won bronze in the lawn bowls women's singles LB6 event.

In the years 2000 and 2006 she was named "Athlete of the Year" by the Ministry of Culture and Sport.

Carmeli was the subject of a 1997 documentary directed by her son and titled Mom's First Olympics.