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Bat-El Gatterer

Bat-El Gatterer is an Israeli taekwondo athlete who won the women's featherweight title at the 2010 European Taekwondo Championships and competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Born: 4 February 1988, Kokhav Ya'akov
Occupation: taekwondo athlete

Bat-El Gatterer was born in 1988 in Kokhav Ya'akov

Gatterer was born on February 4, 1988, and grew up in a religious home in Kokhav Ya'akov. She is the eldest of six children. In high school she studied at the Ofra ulpana.

She began a self-defense class at age 9 and started taekwondo at age 12 with the Ahi Yehuda club in Jerusalem. She served in the Israel Defense Forces for 2 years.

In 2008 she finished third at the Olympic qualification event in Istanbul and earned a place at the Beijing Olympics. There she lost in the first round to Martina Zubčić of Croatia. In May 2010 she won gold at the European Championships in St. Petersburg, the first Israeli to win gold at these championships.

She won many medals at open tournaments in Europe and elsewhere through 2015. In October 2011 the World Taekwondo Federation ranked her third in the world in her weight class.

Gatterer lives in Jerusalem. She completed a bachelor's degree in physical education and is studying for a master's degree in the field.