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Alon Mandel
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Alon Mandel (אלון מנדל; born 23 August 1988) is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Mandel is the national record holder (2014) in 50- and 100-meter butterfly. Mandel won the 100-meter butterfly at the 2009 Maccabiah Games and still holds the record in that event.
Mandel was born in the United States and was raised in Netanya, Israel. He has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan, a master's degree in environmental engineering from Tel Aviv University, and another master's degree in political science from Tel Aviv University as well.
Mandel started swimming at age 6 and began training at the club Hapoel Emek Hefer. Initially he raced in backstroke, and set records for youth in both the 50- and 100-meter backstroke. In 2006, at age 18, Alon was recognized as an athletic prodigy, and postponed his mandatory army service in order to study chemical engineering at the University of Michigan in parallel to training with the varsity men's swim team at the University of Michigan, along with Michael Phelps and his coach, Bob Bowman. During his training in Michigan, Alon switched his primary stroke from backstroke to butterfly, although he kept competing in backstroke for the University of Michigan. During his tenure at the University of Michigan, Mandel won four NCAA First-Team All-American accolades, three NCAA Honorable Mention All-American accolades, and five Big Ten Conference titles.
In Israel Mandel represented Maccabi Kiryat Bialik Club between 2008 and 2012 and Hapoel Dolphin Netanya between 2012 and 2013.
At the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Mandel set a new national record in the 200 meter butterfly with a time of 1:59.79 minutes, becoming the first Israeli swimmer to finish this event in under two minutes. To ensure his participation at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Mandel needed to finish among the first 12 swimmers. He finished 13th, just two hundredths of a second slower than 12th place.
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