Rami Zur

Rami Zur ( born February 3, 1977 in Berkeley, California) is an American Canoe Sprint, which started since the late 1990s for Israel and later for the United States.

He took Ro'l Yellin for Israel at the Olympic Summer Games 2000 in the disciplines of 500 meters and 1000 meters, as well as for the United States at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the discipline K1 500 meters and with Bartosz Wolski in the discipline of K2 1000 meters and 2008 in the discipline K1 500 meter part. In all competitions he retired in the semifinals.

After participating for Israel in 2000, the local government cut funds for this sport, so to who has dual citizenship, as of this date for the United States was launched.

On the maternal side to Jewish descent. Four weeks after his birth, he was released from his seriously ill mother for adoption because they wanted him to be raised Jewish. It was developed by an Israeli Jewish couple who lived in a kibbutz in Galilee near the lake, adopted and raised. From his adoptive father, a sailor, he was enthusiastic about the water sports. Rami Zur served three years with the Israeli army, where he got a job in a unit that allowed him time for training.

In Canoeing Rami is no longer active to. He is married to with Krisztina Fazekas, who won a gold medal in four-man kayak for Hungary at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

As his wife is involved in order to stand up paddling events and won on May 30, 2013 at the Little Brombachsee at the event " Lost Mills ' short-haul discipline than 200 meters in the class inflatable.