Eva Fabian

Eva Fabian was born in 1993 in Frederick

Eva Fabian was born in 1993 in Frederick, Maryland. Her mother, Claire, is a doctor, and her father, Jack, is a professor and swim coach who trained her. She began open water racing at age 11 after a pier-to-pier ocean race in New Jersey.

She was homeschooled through Oak Meadow High School in Vermont, graduating in 2012, because of frequent travel to meets. She swam for Yale University from 2012 to 2016 and earned a degree in music. In 2021 she received a master's degree in political science from Tel Aviv University.

In 2010 she won the world title in the 5-kilometer open water swim in Canada. She took bronze in the 25-kilometer swim at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona and gold in the 10-kilometer swim at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto.

She moved to Israel in 2017 and joined Hapoel Beit Shemesh, training at the Wingate Institute. She won Israeli titles and swam for the national team. She retired in 2024, later worked for a high technology firm, and lives in Netanya with her husband, Zohar Tavor, whom she married in 2022.