BERCOVITCH Pascale

Israel
Canoe Sprint
21 Aug 1967
54
Female
KL2
ANGERS
 
France
TEL AVIV
 
Israel

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
CSP Canoe Sprint Women's Kayak Single 200m - KL2 10

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Sea Forest Waterway
Women's Kayak Single 200m - KL2 Heat 2
#12
Finished
Sea Forest Waterway
Women's Kayak Single 200m - KL2 Semi-final 1
#36
Finished
Sea Forest Waterway
Women's Kayak Single 200m - KL2 Final B
#44
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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CANOE SPRINT
RankEventYearLocationResult
Paralympic Games
8Kayak Single 200m - KL22016Rio de Janeiro, BRA1:01.131
World Championships
7Kayak Single 200m - KL22017Racice, CZE57.764
10Kayak Single 200m - KL22018Montemor-o-Velho, POR1:03.573
11Kayak Single 200m - KL22015Milan, ITA1:02.957
13Kayak Single 200m - KL22019Szeged, HUN57.41
13Kayak Single 200m - KL22016Duisburg, GER1:03.857
European Championships
6Kayak Single 200m - KL22017Plovdiv, BUL1:01.692
7Kayak Single 200m - KL22019Poznan, POL58.630
7Kayak Single 200m - KL22018Belgrade, SRB58.452
8Kayak Single 200m - KL22021Duisburg, GER1:03.443

CYCLING ROAD
RankEventYearLocation
Paralympic Games
6H4 Road Race2012London, GBR
6H4 Time Trial2012London, GBR
7H1-5 Team Relay2012London, GBR
Road World Championships
6H4 Road Race2011Roskilde, DEN
6H4 Time Trial2011Roskilde, DEN
DNSH4 Road Race2013Baie-Comeau, QC, CAN
DNSH4 Time Trial2013Baie-Comeau, QC, CAN
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Passy (Athlete, 28 Aug 2021)
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Writing, surfing, going on holiday with her family. (Athlete, 28 Aug 2021)
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Athlete, Motivational Speaker
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Psychology - University of Haifa, Israel
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Husband Oz Skop, daughters Eden and Mika
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Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Spanish
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Beth-Halohem Tel-Aviv [Israel]
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Vitalii Drozd [national]
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Her husband Oz Skop has coached the Israel national climbing team. (jpost.com, 02 May 2014)
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She represented Israel in Para rowing at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, Para cycling at the 2012 Games in London, and Para canoe at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. (Athlete, 28 Aug 2021; SportsDeskOnline, 07 Aug 2021; mobyaffiliates.com, 02 Jun 2016; sportspromedia.com, 02 Sep 2016)
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In 2021 she fell from her bed while playing with her daughters and sustained a severe traumatic brain injury. She required several months of recovery before returning to training and everyday activities. (Athlete, 28 Aug 2021)
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She transitioned from Para cycling to Para canoe in 2015, at age 48, and began the sport at the Daniel Rowing Centre in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was originally involved in able-bodied gymnastics from age 10. Following her accident she took up Para swimming after moving to Israel and aimed to qualify for the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona, but quit the sport due to a lack of funding. She returned to sport at around age 40 and would compete in Para rowing at the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, Para cycling at the 2012 Games in London, and Para canoe at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. (Athlete, 28 Aug 2021; jpost.com, 02 May 2014; sportspromedia.com, 02 Sep 2016; SportsDeskOnline, 07 Aug 2021)
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"It's just because I love it. I just love to push my limits a little bit further. I'm always trying to be better in what I do. And, actually, life. I didn't want so much to change sport, it just happened this way for many reasons. Sometimes for financial reasons, that's why I dropped the handcycling, because it was so, so expensive I couldn't afford it." (sportspromedia.com, 02 Sep 2016)
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To compete at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Instagram profile, 28 Mar 2021)
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Earning selection for the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (Athlete, 28 Aug 2021)
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"My mantra is, 'Slowly, slowly. Fast, fast'. I do everything slowly, my way, trying to do my best every day in training, every paddle, every stroke, and then we'll see what happens." (sportspromedia.com, 02 Sep 2016)

General Interest

Classification
KL2, VL2 (ICF, 29 Jul 2021)

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (forward.com, 12 Sep 2016)

Origin of Impairment
Acquired (forward.com, 12 Sep 2016)

Impairment Details
In 1984, at age 17, she was running for a train to her school in Angers, France, when she slipped and fell underneath a train, resulting in both of her legs being amputated above the knee. (jpost.com, 02 May 2014; sportspromedia.com, 02 Sep 2016; forward.com, 12 Sep 2016)

General
JOURNALISM CAREER
She took up swimming as part of her rehabilitation and was invited to join the Israeli national team with the aim of competing at the 1992 Paralympic Games in Barcelona. Without a full-time salary, she quit the team prior to the Games and for almost the next 20 years worked as a journalist and documentary maker, producing 'Three-Hundredths of a Second', an award-winning film on the Israeli Para swimming team at the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney. "I was very young, and I was too poor to be an athlete. I had to work and earn some money for a living. So I had to quit. I wanted to go to the Barcelona Paralympic Games in 92, but I wasn't able to do it because I didn't have a penny. I had to work. That's how I became a journalist." (jta.org, 12 May 2013; jpost.com, 02 May 2014; sportspromedia.com, 02 Sep 2016)

AUTHOR
In 1999 she released a book titled 'Oline, le dauphin du miracle' [Oline, the miracle dolphin]. The book tells the true story of the bond between a dolphin and an Egyptian boy with a hearing impairment. (pascale.org.il, 2016)

REPRESENTING ISRAEL
Born in France, she learned of her Jewish heritage at age 13 and later volunteered for the Israel Defence Forces [IDF] when she finished her school studies. "When I had my accident at age 17, I had this dream of coming to Israel and being an Israeli and I decided that this was a good moment to do it." (haaretz.com, 11 Jul 2012; sportspromedia.com, 02 Sep 2016)

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