Bat El Gaterer
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| Birth name | בת אל גטרר | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Israeli | |||||||||||||
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February 4, 1988 Kokhav Ya'akov, West Bank |
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| Residence | Jerusalem | |||||||||||||
| Height | 5' 7" (170 cm) | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 121 lb (55 kg) | |||||||||||||
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| Country | Israel | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Featherweight (57 kg) | |||||||||||||
| Club | Ahi Yehuda, Jerusalem | |||||||||||||
| Coached by | Avi Kadouri & Noa Shmida | |||||||||||||
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Bat-El Gatterer (Hebrew: בת אל גטרר; born February 4, 1988) is an Israeli Olympic taekwondo athlete. She was the women's 2010 European featherweight champion.
Gatterer was born in and lived in the Israeli settlement of Kokhav Ya'akov, on a hilltop in the West Bank. In 1984, the family moved to Kokhav Ya'akov, a 20-minute drive from Jerusalem, where she trains. She is the eldest of six children, and served in the Israel Defense Forces for two years. She is a religiously observant Jew.
Gatterer enrolled in her first fighting class at 9 years of age, and at 12 years of age she began studying taekwondo. She trains with the club Ahi Yehuda in Jerusalem. She also trains at Wingate Institute, near Netanya, Israel. She is coached by Avi Kadouri and Noa Shmida.
In 2007, she won a gold medal in the under-55 kg class at the Austrian Open in Innsbruck, Austria, and bronze medals at the Trelleborg Open in Trelleborg, Sweden, and the Belgian Open in Herentals, Belgium. She was ranked second in Europe in her weight class by the European Taekwondo Union.
In 2008, competing in the under-55 kg class she won gold medals at the Dutch Open in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the German Open in Hamburg, Germany, and the Croatia Open in Zagreb, Croatia. She also won a bronze medal at the Austrian Open in Innsbruck, Austria, and a bronze medal in the under-57 kg weight class at the Olympic Games qualification competition in Istanbul, Turkey. Upon qualifying for the 2008 Summer Olympics, she said "I was a little surprised to have qualified. It is a great achievement and it is the dream of every sportsman, but people believed in me."
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