Rachel Tassa

At the age of 11, in 1964 she began her practice at the Israel Sports Center for the Disabled.

[4] Tassa competed in other fencing and swimming events, setting high scores but failing to achieve further medals.

[5] At the 1976 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal as a member of the women's wheelchair basketball team[6] and two individual medals: a silver medal in women's foil[7] and a bronze medal competing at the women's 50m butterfly swimming event[8] At the 1980 Summer Paralympics, she won two silver medals as a member of the women's foil team in wheelchair fencing[9] and the women's wheelchair basketball team.

[10] At the 1984 Summer Paralympics, she won a silver medal as a member of Israel's women's wheelchair basketball team.

At the 1988 Summer Paralympics, she won her final bronze medal with the women's wheelchair fencing foil team.