Career
She specialized in the 100-meter hurdles and the 100-meter sprint. Esther Shahamorov is an Israeli Jew. After she retired from competitive sport she became a sports schoolteacher.
Records She once held simultaneously five Israeli national records.
One of them is still a record and two others held for over 20 years. Her time of 11.45s in the 100m, set at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, was broken on Sat April 19, 2014, by Olga Lansky.
Lansky"s result though was vacated later the same year due to skipping mandatory drug test after the competition. Her time of 12.93s in the 100m hurdles, set in Berlin shortly after the 1976 Summer Olympics, stood as a national record for 26 years, until it was broken by Irina Lenskiy in 2002.
Her time of 23.57s in the 200m, set in Stuttgart in 1975, held as a record for 29 years, until it was broken, also by Lenskiy, in 2002.
Her mark of 6.14m in the long jump was a national record from 1971 to 1984. Her record of 4837 points in the Women"s pentathlon was a national record from 1971 until the format was changed in 1977. Asian Games Olympics At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Roth just barely missed qualifying for the final in the 100-meter sprint.
In 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal where she was the Israeli flag-bearer, Roth became the first ever Israeli athlete to reach the finals in any Olympic event, and she is still the only Israeli Olympic finalist in track events, when she finished 6th in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.04 seconds.
Maccabiah Games.
