Asteroids named after people called Shaul
(247341) Shaulladany
Shaul Paul Ladany (b. 1936) competed as a racewalker for Israel in the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and set the world record for the 50-mile walk in April 1972. He survived the Holocaust and, later, the massacre at the Munich Olympics. In 2007 he was awarded the Pierre de Coubertin Medal and was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.Discovered 20 October 2001 by NEAT, Haleakala