Maya Kalle-Bentzur

Maya Calé-Benzoor (also "Kalle-Bentzur"; ; born September 5, 1958) is an Israeli former Olympic runner and long jumper.

Calé-Benzoor set the Israeli indoor long jump record (6.13 metres). She was a medalist at the 1973 Maccabiah Games, and at the 1981 Maccabiah Games she won the gold medal in the long jump. She won a bronze medal in the triple jump at the European Masters’ Championships in 2001.

She was born in Israel, and is Jewish. She placed third in the triple jump at the 1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships meet.

Running and long jump career Her personal bests were 12.19 in the 100 metre dash (in 1977), and 6.27 metres in the long jump (in 1984).

Calé-Benzoor competed for Israel at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California at the age of 25.

She won a bronze medal in the triple jump at the European Masters’ Championships in 2001.

Career after the Olympics Calé-Benzoor worked as a physiotherapist and clinic manager in Phoenix, Arizona, and Atlanta, Georgia, and became the First Head of the Women's Sports Committee at the Maccabi Israel Center. She was the Deputy Manager of the Physiotherapy Department at Wingate Institute, and is now the Director of Sports Injury Rehabilitation at Wingate Institute and a lecturer in the Physiotherapy Program at Haifa University.