Tami Carmeli

Tami Carmeli is an Israeli lawn bowls player, born in 1939, who competes in the blind classifications of the sport. A librarian at the Technion, she became blind in 1980 and took up lawn bowls in 1988. She won Israeli national titles in the B1 classification in 1991, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2008 and 2012, and she took part in the International Blind Bowls Association World Championships in 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005, winning two silver medals and one bronze in the mixed pairs. At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics she won bronze in the women's singles LB6 event. The Ministry of Culture and Sport named her Athlete of the Year in 2000 and 2006, and her son directed a 1997 documentary about her titled Mom's First Olympics.