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'''Meir Daloya''' ({{Langx|he|מאיר דלויה}}; February 7, 1956 – January 27, 2024)<ref name="death">{{cite web |author1=Maccabi Tel Aviv |author2-link=Maccabi Tel Aviv |title=Instagram |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C2os-EZoldT/ |website=www.instagram.com |access-date=16 December 2024 |language=Hebrew}}</ref> was an Israeli Olympic weightlifter.<ref name="sports-reference.com">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/meir-daloya-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418105136/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/meir-daloya-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Meir Daloya}}</ref> He was born in Israel, and was Jewish.<ref name="jewsinsports.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?sport=olympics&ID=114 |title=Daloya, Meir |website=JewsInSports.org}}</ref>

==Weightlifting career== He came in 8th in the 1981 World Weightlifting Championships, lifting 212.5&nbsp;kg.<ref name="iwrp.net">{{cite web |url=http://www.iwrp.net/?view=contestant&id_zawodnik=7926|title=Daloya Meir |website=IWRP.net}}</ref> The following year he came in 11th in the 1982 World Weightlifting Championships, lifting 217.5&nbsp;kg.<ref name="iwrp.net"/>

He competed for Israel at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles at the age of 27, in Weightlifting--Men's Flyweight (52 kg).<ref name="sports-reference.com"/> He came in 9th, after lifting {{convert|215|kg|lb|abbr=on}}.<ref name="sports-reference.com"/><ref name="jewsinsports.org"/> When he competed in the Olympics, he was {{convert|5|ft|1|in|cm}} tall, and weighed {{convert|115|lb|kg}}.<ref name="sports-reference.com"/>

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==External links== * {{Olympics.com profile|meir-daloya}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Daloya, Meir}} Category:1956 births Category:2024 deaths Category:20th-century Israeli sportsmen Category:Israeli male weightlifters Category:Jewish Israeli sportspeople Category:Jewish weightlifters Category:Olympic weightlifters for Israel Category:Weightlifters at the 1984 Summer Olympics