Gal Fridman
Windsurfer Gal Fridman won Israel’s first and only gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, following his bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games.

Gal Fridman is an Israeli Olympic athlete. A windsurfer, Fridman is the only Israeli athlete to win multiple Olympic medals and the first and only Israeli Olympic gold medalist. Fridman won a bronze medal in Atlanta in 1996 and a gold in Athens in 2000. He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.