Yachting career

Lazarov and Zefania Carmel

Zefania Carmel

Zefania Carmel was an Israeli yachting world champion.-Yachting career:As teammates on Israel’s Zevulun Bat-Yam Club, the two won the Israeli Championship in 1966 in the 420-Class, and topped an international field of competition in the same event on New York’s Hudson River in August 1967.Carmel...

 were teammates in the Zevulun Bateam Club in Israel. They won the 1966 Israeli 420

420 (dinghy)

The International 420 Class Dinghy is a double-handed monohull planing dinghy with centreboard, bermuda rig and centre sheeting. The name describes the overall length of the boat in centimetres . The hull is fibreglass with internal buoyancy tanks. The 420 is equipped with spinnaker and optional...

-class national championship.

Lazarov and Carmel also won the 1969 world title in the Team 420 Sailing Class, at Sandhem

Sandhem

Sandhem is a locality situated in Trollhättan Municipality, Trollhättan County, Sweden with 60,000 inhabitants in 2007....

, Sweden. They were Israel's first world champions in any sport.

Lazarov was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame

The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame was opened July 7, 1981, in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere around the world....

in 1992.