{{short description|Israeli sailor}} {{Infobox sailor | name = Eitan Friedlander | image = | image_size = | caption = | native_name = איתן פרידלנדר | native_name_lang = Hebrew | birth_name = | fullname = | nickname = | nationality = {{ISR}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|9|21}} | birth_place = Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra, Israel | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|death year|death month|death day|birth year|birth month|birth day}} --> | death_place = | height = {{convert|6|ft|1.5|in|cm|0}} | weight = {{convert|161|lb|kg}} | classes = *420 *470 | club = | collegeteam = | coach = | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport|Sailing}} {{MedalCountry|{{ISR}}}} {{MedalCompetition|420 International Yacht Racing Union Youth Sailing World Championship}} {{MedalGold|1972 West Germany|420}} {{MedalBronze|1974 |420}} {{MedalCompetition|420 World Championships}} {{MedalGold|1980 Quiberon, France|420}} {{MedalCompetition|420 European Championships}} {{MedalGold|1976 Ireland|420}} {{MedalCompetition|470 World Championships}} {{MedalBronze|1983 Weymouth|470}} {{MedalCompetition|470 European Championships}} {{MedalBronze|1977 Austria|470}} {{MedalSilver|1978 Portugal|470}} {{MedalGold|1979 Spain|470}} {{MedalSilver|1982 Hungary|470}} | show-medals = yes | updated = }} '''Eitan Friedlander''' (also "Fridlander"; {{Langx|he|איתן פרידלנדר}}; born September 21, 1958) is an Israeli former Olympic sailor.<ref name="sports-reference.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fr/eitan-fridlander-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418072701/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fr/eitan-fridlander-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-18|title=Eitan Fridlander Bio, Stats, and Results|publisher=sports-reference.com}}</ref> Friedlander and Shimshon Brokman won the 1972 420 International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) Youth Sailing World Championship in West Germany, the gold medals in the 1979 470 European Championships in Spain and the 1980 420 World Championship in France, and a bronze medal in 1983 at the 470 World Championships.
He was born in Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra, Israel, and is Jewish.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=109 |title=Friedlander, Eitan |access-date=2016-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205215949/http://jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=109 |archive-date=2010-12-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Sailing career== In 1972, Friedlander and Shimshon Brokman won the 420 International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) Youth Sailing World Championship in West Germany.<ref name="jta.org1">{{cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/1984/07/31/archive/special-to-the-jta-israel-sets-sail-for-olympic-gold|title=Special to the JTA Israel Sets Sail for Olympic Gold|date=31 July 1984|publisher=jta.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isafyouthworlds.com/tools/isaf/resultcentre/?rgtaid=13916&evntid=27157&view=fleetevent|title=Results - 2nd IYRU Youth Sailing World Championships|publisher=isafyouthworlds.com}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 1974 they won the bronze medal in the same event.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.isafyouthworlds.org/results/medal_tally.php?tidx_action=wc_medallists&rgtaid=&classid=&ctryid=97&typeid=1|title=Medal Tally|publisher=isafyouthworlds.org}}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Friedlander and Brokman won the 1976 European 420 Championship in Ireland.<ref name="jta.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.jta.org/1976/08/19/archive/two-israeli-yachtsmen-shimshon-bruckman-and-eytan-friedlaender|title=News Brief|date=19 August 1976|publisher=jta.org}}</ref>
The two of them then won the bronze medal in the 1977 470 European Championships in Austria, the silver medal in the 1978 European 470 Championship in Portugal, the gold medal in the 1979 European 470 Championship in Spain, and the silver medal in the 1982 European 470 Championship in Hungary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sports123.com/sai/me-470.html |title=Sports 123: Sailing: European Championships: Men: 470 |date=11 December 2007 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071211052034/http://sports123.com/sai/me-470.html |archivedate= 11 December 2007 }}</ref>
In the 1980 420 World Championships in Quiberon, France, Brokman and Eitan Friedlander won the gold medal.<ref>[http://www.420sailing.org/content/420-world-european-and-junior-european-champions Past 420 World, European and Junior European Champions - 420 Sailing<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In the 1980 470 World Championships, they came in 5th.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4_Z9BWIYwYQC&q=%22Shimshon+Brokman%22&pg=PA171|title=Yachting|date=May 1980|volume=147|number=5}}</ref>
Friedlander and Brokman were set to compete in the 470 sailing event at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, but did not because Israel joined in the US-led boycott of the Olympics prompted by the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.<ref name="jewsinsports.org">[http://www.jewsinsports.org/olympics.asp?ID=108 "Brockman, Shimshon"]</ref>
Friedlander competed for Israel at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 26 in Sailing.<ref name="sports-reference.com"/> In the Men's 470 Mixed Two Person Dinghy, he and Brokman came in 8th out of 28 teams.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1984/SAI/mixed-two-person-dinghy.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417185437/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1984/SAI/mixed-two-person-dinghy.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-17|title=Sailing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Mixed Two Person Dinghy|publisher=sports-reference.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-sports.org/shimshon-brokman-nautical-sports-spf69874.html|title=Nautical Sports - Shimshon Brokman (Israel)|publisher=the-sports.org}}</ref> When he competed in the Olympics he was {{convert|6|ft|1.5|in|cm|0|abbr=on}} tall and weighed {{convert|161|lb|kg|abbr=on}}.<ref name="sports-reference.com"/>
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