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Koby Lion

Koby Lion is an Israeli handcyclist who won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

born 1976Handcycling2012 Paralympic silver medalService in the Egoz Unit

Born: 25 May 1976, Nir Etzion
Occupation: handcyclist, military personnel

Koby Lion was born in 1976 in Nir Etzion

Yaakov "Koby" Lion was born on May 25, 1976, in Nir Etzion. He is married to Yifat and has 3 children.

Lion served in the Egoz Unit of the IDF. In 1996 he was wounded in Lebanon when his team hit a roadside bomb, and he was left paralyzed from the chest down.

After rehabilitation he began training in handcycling at Beit Halochem in Tel Aviv. In 2010 he placed third in a road race at the world championship for the disabled in Canada. In 2011 he placed second in the time trial at the world championship in Denmark.

At the 2012 London Paralympics he won a silver medal in the time trial, and a flat tire kept him from finishing the road race. In December 2015 he received the Israeli Sports Prize from the Ministry of Culture and Sport. He represented Israel at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, where he finished sixth.