Anat Draigor

Anat Draigor

Anat Draigor (b. 22 March 1960 in Beersheba, Israel) is a professional basketball player, owning the Guinness world record for the number of points scored in a single game – on April 6, 2006, 46-year-old Anat Draigor of Israel break the Guinness World Record for points scored in a basketball game by a female professional by scoring 136 points in a game. The record occurred during a game between Draigor's Mate Yehuda and Elitzur Givat Shmuel in third basketball league. (Overall: 158-41).

Draigor started to play basketball when she was 14 years old.

Draigor played professionally from the season 1985-86 until 1993-94. She played most of her career in Israel, in the team of Elitzur Holon, and played in France in 2 occasions: in 1980-81, in Clermont-Ferrand (where she took the French championship); and in 1991-92 in Racing club de Paris.

Until the early nineties, the female Israeli basketball primary league was closed to foreign players; and when the league officials allowed foreign players to participate, it was Draigor's big challenge to test her abilities against American and Eastern Europe professionals. Anat remained one of the leading scorer and rebounder in the league until her retirement from professional playing.

In the European championship in the summer of 1991, AD scored 31 against Czechoslovakia, leading Israel to an historical win. This performance was "caught" by representatives of French club Racing Paris, and at the age of 31, AD was the first Israeli player – male or female – to be hired to play overseas as a foreign reinforcement player.

After her retirement from professional playing, Draigor went on to coaching and her career as a coach included several Israeli female teams in the major league, and the cadets' national team.


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