# Diana Vaisman

Diana Vaisman (or Weissman, Hebrew: דיאנה ויסמן; Belarusian: Диана Вейсман, born 23 July 1998) is a Belarusian-born Israeli track and field athlete and sprinter. She holds the Israeli national record in the 100 metre sprint.

## Early and personal life

Vaisman was born in Minsk, Belarus, to Irena and Vladimir Vaisman. Her family immigrated to Israel with her, when she was two years old. They reside in Ashkelon, Israel. Her mother Irina Vaisman is a former athlete and a current coach, and coaches her as does Irina Lenskiy. Vaisman's family is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent.
She was enlisted and served as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.
She married her Israeli boyfriend Max Shvarzman on 7 April 2022.

## Running career

Vaisman's club is Maccabi Rishon LeZion.

### 60 metres

Vaisman represented Israel in the 60 metres at two European Athletics Indoor Championships, in 2017 and 2019, reaching the semifinals on the second occasion. In February 2018 she won a bronze medal in the 60 m sprint with a time of 7.49 at the 2018 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. In January 2019 at the 2019 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Indoor Championships in Miramas, France, she won a bronze medal in the 60 metres with a time of 7.45. In February 2019 she won a gold medal in the 60 m sprint with a time of 7.34 at the 2019 Balkan Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul.
In a competition held in Rishon LeZion on 27 February 2022 she set a new Israeli record of 7.23 seconds in the 60 meters race. A week later, in a competition held at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris, France, on 6 March, she finished fourth in the 60 meters race with a new Israeli record of 7.23 seconds.

### 100 metres

In July 2017 at the 2017 Maccabiah Games she set the Games record in the 100 m dash with a time of 11.71. In June 2018 at the 2018 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships in Jesolo, Italy, Vaisman won a silver medal in the 100 metres with a time of 11.59.
Vaisman is Israel's national record holder in the 100 metres (11.38 seconds), having in July 2018 at 19 years of age at the Israel Athletic Championship in Tel Aviv broken a long-standing 46-year record of Esther Roth-Shahamorov going back to the 1972 Summer Olympics. In June 2019 at the 2019 European Games, Vaisman set a new Israeli national record in the 100 metres, running it in 11:35 seconds. In July 2019 she ran the 100 metres in 11.27 at the 83rd Israel Athletic Championships, lowering her Israeli national record. In 2019, she competed in the women's 100 metres event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. She did not qualify to compete in the semi-finals.
At the Israeli Championships held at the Givat Ram Stadium in Jerusalem she won the gold medal in the 100 meters race with a time of 11.28 seconds, ahead of Alina Droutman from Leader Jerusalem (11.90 seconds) and Ilanit Dorfman from Hapoel Holon (12.13 seconds). In the preliminaries she set a new Israeli record of 11.22 seconds.
At a competition held in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland on 3 July that year she won the gold medal in the 100 meters race with a new Israeli record of 11.06 seconds, ahead of Dafne Schippers from the Netherlands (11.13 seconds).
At the 2022 European Athletics Championships held in Munich she ran the 100m in 11.29 seconds and did not advance to the semifinals, although she was less than a tenth of a second away from qualifying.

## International competitions

| Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
| Representing Israel ||||||
| 2013 | European Youth Olympic Festival | Utrecht, Netherlands | 21st (h) | 100 m | 12.82 (w) |
| 2013 | European Youth Olympic Festival | Utrecht, Netherlands | 17th (h) | 200 m | 26.49 (w) |
| 2015 | World Youth Championships | Cali, Colombia | 10th (sf) | 100 m | 11.79 |
| 2015 | World Youth Championships | Cali, Colombia | – | 200 m | DQ |
| 2016 | World U20 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 11th (sf) | 100 | 11.66 |
| 2017 | European Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 33rd (h) | 60 m | 7.54 |
| 2017 | European U20 Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 11th (sf) | 100 m | 11.88 |
| 2017 | European U20 Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 30th (h) | 200 m | 24.85 |
| 2017 | European U20 Championships | Grosseto, Italy | 16th (h) | 4 × 100 m relay | 46.46 |
| 2018 | Balkan Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 3rd | 60 m | 7.49 |
| 2018 | Mediterranean U23 Championships | Jesolo, Italy | 2nd | 100 m | 11.59 |
| 2018 | Mediterranean U23 Championships | Jesolo, Italy | 4th | 4 × 100 m relay | 47.06 |
| 2018 | European Championships | Berlin, Germany | 14th (h) | 100 m | 11.61 |
| 2019 | Balkan Indoor Championships | Istanbul, Turkey | 1st | 60 m | 7.34 |
| 2019 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow, Scotland | 11th (sf) | 60 m | 7.32 |
| 2019 | European U23 Championships | Gävle, Sweden | 4th | 100 m | 11.48 |
| 2019 | World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 30th (h) | 100 m | 11.39 |
| 2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 23rd (h) | 100 m | 11.27 |
| 2022 | World Indoor Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 17th (sf) | 60 m | 7.20 |
| 2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 29th (h) | 100 m | 11.29 |
| 2022 | European Championships | Munich, Germany | 9th (sf) | 100 m | 11.36 |

## Personal bests

Outdoor
* 100 metres – 11.27 (+0.5 m/s, Tel Aviv 2019)
* 200 metres – 23.78 (-0.9 m/s, Tel Aviv 2018)
Indoor
* 60 metres – 7.32 (Glasgow 2019)