Nina Amir

Sailing career Amir started sailing with the Haifa Sailing Club while she was in high school. In August 2013 they took 9th in the 420 Junior European Championships.

In 2015 Amir came in second in the 420 discipline in the Israeli national championships.

In March 2016 Amir began to compete along with Olympic sailor Gil Cohen, who had placed 15th in the 2012 London Olympics with Vered Buskila and who had subsequently been seriously injured after she was hit by a car in 2014.

Amir and Cohen placed 9th in the 2016 Princess Sofia Trophy Regatta in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

In April 2016 Amir and Cohen placed 18th in the 470 European Championships. She competed with Gil Cohen, with whom she paired up in March 2016 for the first time, and they finished in 18th place in the Women's 470.