| Nir Shental | |
| Native Name: | ניר שנטל |
| Native Name Lang: | Hebrew |
| Birth Date: | 25 April 1969 |
| Birth Place: | Jaffa, Israel |
| Classes: | Two-Person Dinghy (470) |
| Club: | Hapoel Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Nir Shental (also "Chantal"; ניר שנטל; born April 25, 1969) is an Israeli Olympic competitive sailor.[1]
Shental was born in Jaffa, Israel, and he is Jewish.[1] [2] His brother is an Olympic competitive sailor Ran Shental.[1]
His club is Hapoel Tel Aviv, in Tel Aviv, Israel.[1]
In 1987, Shental and his brother Ran won the gold medal in the 17th International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) Youth Sailing World Championships in the 420 dinghy—Open in Botany Bay, NSW, Australia.[3] [4] They beat out future Olympians Jean-François Berthet and Gwenael Berthet of France.[4] In August 1988, he won the silver medal in the 470 dinghy Junior World Championship in the 470 - Open, in Puck, Poland.[3]
In 1993, Shental and his brother won the silver medal in the 470 World Championships.[2] In 1995, he and his brother won the bronze medal in the 470 World Championships in the 470-Men, in Toronto, Canada.[3] [5] That year, they were named Israel's Sportsmen of the Year in a ceremony conducted by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.[6] Shental and his brother competed for Israel at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, at the age of 27, in the Sailing--Men's Two Person Dinghy (470), and came in 19th.[1] The next Israeli siblings to compete in the same Olympics were Shachar Sagiv and Ran Sagiv, who competed in the men's triathlon event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021.[7] [8] [9]