Background
Hatuel is Jewish, and was born in Acre, Israel. Delila, her father, and Lydia train Jewish and Arab children in fencing at Acre"s Olympic Fencing Center.
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Delila Hatuel
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Hatuel finished ninth in the team foil 1997 World Fencing Championships in Cape Town, South Africa, and eighth in the team foil 1998 European Fencing Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In July 2007, Hatuel finished sixth in individual foil at the European Fencing Championships, in Ghent, Belgium. Throughout 2008, she finished in the top 10 in the Fencing World Cup circuit, and was ranked in the top 16 in the world.
Career
She represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has been ranked as high as ninth in the world. Fencing career
In April 2008, she was ranked 9th in the world in women"s foil. She finished seventh in individual foil in the tournament.
Her injury included a torn anterior cruciate ligament, which had to be surgically repaired.
She underwent treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Tzrifin, Israel, so that she would be well enough to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Exposure to oxygen under high pressure speeds up the body"s natural healing process.
Hatuel, then ranked 11th in the world, represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, in foil fencing. She came in 19th, losing 10–9 to reigning world title holder Viktoriya Nikishina of Russia, who was part of the gold-medal winning Russian team
Hatuel tied the match with less than a minute remaining, and was defeated in overtime.
Hatuel later said: "I"m sad, but this loss has nothing to do with my injury. I lost in a tight match." However, a reporter for Haaretz said "it seems that Hatuel"s knee injury was agonizing". Hatuel said she would be undergoing further surgery and hoped to participate at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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Quotations: "I"m sad, but this loss has nothing to do with my injury. I lost in a tight match." However, a reporter for Haaretz said "it seems that Hatuel"s knee injury was agonizing".
