Anat Draigor
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Anat Draigor is a professional basketball player who in 2006 set the Guinness world record for the number of points scored in a single game by a female. On April 6, 2006, 46-year-old Draigor of Israel set that record by scoring 136 points in a single game. The record occurred during a game between Draigor's Mate Yehuda and Elitzur Givat Shmuel in third basketball league. (Overall: 158-41).
Draigor started to play basketball when she was 14 years old.
Draigor played professionally from the season 1985-86 until 1993-94. She played most of her career in Israel, in the team of Elitzur Holon, and played in France
in 2 occasions: in 1980-81, in Clermont-Ferrand
(where she took the French championship); and in 1991-92 in Racing club de Paris.
Until the early nineties, the female Israeli basketball primary league was closed to foreign players; and when the league officials allowed foreign players to participate, it was Draigor's big challenge to test her abilities against American and Eastern Europe professionals.
Anat remained one of the leading scorer and rebounder in the league until her retirement from professional playing.
In the European championship in the summer of 1991, AD scored 31 against Czechoslovakia
, leading Israel to an historical win. This performance was "caught" by representatives of French club Racing Paris, and at the age of 31, AD was the first Israeli player – male or female – to be hired to play overseas as a foreign reinforcement player.
After her retirement from professional playing, Draigor went on to coaching and her career as a coach included several Israeli female teams in the major league, and the cadets' national team.
Draigor started to play basketball when she was 14 years old.
Draigor played professionally from the season 1985-86 until 1993-94. She played most of her career in Israel, in the team of Elitzur Holon, and played in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in 2 occasions: in 1980-81, in Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department...
(where she took the French championship); and in 1991-92 in Racing club de Paris.
Until the early nineties, the female Israeli basketball primary league was closed to foreign players; and when the league officials allowed foreign players to participate, it was Draigor's big challenge to test her abilities against American and Eastern Europe professionals.
Anat remained one of the leading scorer and rebounder in the league until her retirement from professional playing.
In the European championship in the summer of 1991, AD scored 31 against Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
, leading Israel to an historical win. This performance was "caught" by representatives of French club Racing Paris, and at the age of 31, AD was the first Israeli player – male or female – to be hired to play overseas as a foreign reinforcement player.
After her retirement from professional playing, Draigor went on to coaching and her career as a coach included several Israeli female teams in the major league, and the cadets' national team.