Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics

The Olympic delegation and the President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin

The Israeli delegation includes 90 athletes, competing in 15 sports.[6]

This was Alexander Shatilov's fourth appearance at the Olympics, and Sergey Richter's, Yakov Toumarkin's, and Misha Zilberman's third appearance. Nine members of the delegation participated in the games for the second time: Lonah Chemtai Salpeter, Gili Cohen, Shlomi Haimy, Sagi Muki, Andrea Murez, Shira Rishony, Or Sasson, Marhu Teferi, and Maor Tiyouri.

This was Alberto Michán's third appearance at the Olympics, but was the first time he represented Israel. Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko also appeared for the third time at the Olympics, but only for the second time as part of the Israeli delegation.

Seven athletes from the delegation have previously participated in the Youth Olympic Games: Linoy Ashram, Gal Cohen Groumi, Artem Dolgopyat, Anastasia Gorbenko, Denis Loktev, Avishag Semberg, and Yakov Toumarkin.

This schedule shows all the events in which Israeli athletes have participated or may participate.[7]

All times and dates use Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

OC

Opening ceremony

1

Event competitions

1

Medal events

EG

Exhibition gala

CC

Closing ceremony

July/August 2021		23 Fri	24 Sat	25 Sun	26 Mon	27 Tue	28 Wed	29 Thu	30 Fri	31 Sat	1 Sun	2 Mon	3 Tue	4 Wed	5 Thu	6 Fri	7 Sat	8 Sun
Ceremonies		OC																CC
Aquatics	Artistic swimming											1
	Marathon swimming														1
	Swimming		1	3	3	1	4	3	3	1
Archery		1					1			1
Athletics									3		1	1					2	1
Badminton			1	1	1	1
Baseball								1	1		1	1	1
Cycling	Road cycling			1			1
	Mountain biking				1
Equestrian													1	1		1
Gymnastics	Artistic		1	1							1
	Rhythmic															1	1	1
Judo			1	2	2	2	1	2	2	1
Sailing				3	3	1	3	4	2	2	1		1	1
Shooting				1
Surfing				1
Taekwondo			1
Triathlon					1
Weightlifting														1
July/August 2021		23 Fri	24 Sat	25 Sun	26 Mon	27 Tue	28 Wed	29 Thu	30 Fri	31 Sat	1 Sun	2 Mon	3 Tue	4 Wed	5 Thu	6 Fri	7 Sat	8 Sun

Itay Shanny

One Israeli archer qualified directly for the men's individual recurve at the Games, by reaching the quarterfinals and obtaining one of the seven available spots at the 2021 Final Qualification Tournament in Paris, France. This marked Israel's debut in Olympic archery.[8]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Itay Shanny	Men's individual	635	60	Muto (JPN) W 7–3	Rai (IND) W 6–5	Tang C-c (TPE) L 5–6	Did not advance			9

Israel fielded a squad of two artistic swimmers to compete in the women's duet event, by finishing sixth at the 2021 FINA Olympic Qualification Tournament in Barcelona, Spain.

Selamawit Teferi

Marhu Teferi

Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko

Nine Israeli athletes met the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):[9][10]

Track & road events

Men

Women

Field events

Israel entered two badminton players (one per gender) into the Olympic tournament. Misha Zilberman and Ksenia Polikarpova were selected to compete at the Games each in the men's and women's singles based on the BWF World Race to Tokyo Rankings.[11][12]

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Misha Zilberman	Men's singles	Sai Praneeth (IND) W (21–17, 21–15)	Caljouw (NED) L (21–17, 9–21, 10–21)	2	Did not advance				15
Ksenia Polikarpova	Women's singles	Sindhu (IND) L (7–21, 10–21)	Cheung N-y (HKG) L (15–21, 21–15, 16–21)	3	Did not advance				15

The current Israel national baseball team that competes at the 2020 Summer Olympics is composed mostly of American Jews with only four Israeli-born players.[13]

The Israel national baseball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the gold medal at the 2019 WSBC Africa and Europe Qualification Tournament in Italy and securing an outright berth, marking the country's Olympic debut in baseball.[14]

Team	Group Stage			Round 1	Round 2	Round 1 repechage	Final / BM
	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
National baseball team	South Korea L (5–6)	United States L (1–8)	3	Mexico W (12–5)	South Korea L (1–11)	Dominican Republic L (6–7)	Did not advance	5

Team roster

Ian Kinsler

Danny Valencia

Ryan Lavarnway

The Israel Association of Baseball announced the team's final roster on July 5, 2021.[15] The team is composed mostly of American Jews with only four Israeli-born players.[16]

Baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Israel roster
Players				Coaches
Pitchers 30 Jeremy Bleich 21 Jonathan de Marte 17 Jake Fishman 47 Alex Katz 29 Alon Leichman 12 Shlomo Lipetz 27 Jon Moscot 10 D. J. Sharabi 14 Joey Wagman 23 Ben Wanger 44 Zack Weiss 28 Josh Zeid		Catchers  7 Tal Erel 36 Ryan Lavarnway  9 Nick Rickles Infielders  8 Scott Burcham 22 Mitch Glasser 11 Ty Kelly  3 Ian Kinsler  6 Zach Penprase 19 Danny Valencia Outfielders  2 Blake Gailen 24 Assaf Lowengart  4 Robb Paller		Manager 13 Eric Holtz Coaches 15 Nate Fish (Third base) 61 Alex Jacobs (Bench Coach) 34 Andrew Lorraine (Pitching) 56 Nate Mulberg (Hitting/First base)

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	RF	RA	RD	PCT	GB	Qualification
1	United States	2	2	0	12	3	+9	1.000	—	Round 2
2	South Korea	2	1	1	8	9	−1	.500	1	Round 1 game #2
3	Israel	2	0	2	6	14	−8	.000	2	Round 1 game #1

29 July 19:00
Yokohama Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	R	H	E
Israel	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	5	7	0
South Korea	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	1	6	11	0
WP: Oh Seung-hwan (1–0)   LP: Jeremy Bleich (0–1) Home runs: ISR: Ian Kinsler (1), Ryan Lavarnway 2 (2) KOR: Oh Ji-hwan (1), Lee Jung-hoo (1), Hyun-soo Kim (1) Boxscore

30 July 19:00
Yokohama Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
United States	0	0	3	0	0	1	2	1	1	8	11	0
Israel	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	2
WP: Joe Ryan (1–0)   LP: Joey Wagman (0–1) Home runs: USA: Tyler Austin (1) ISR: Danny Valencia (1) Boxscore

Round 1

1 August 12:00
Yokohama Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Israel	1	0	5	0	0	0	6	0	0	12	12	0
Mexico	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	8	1
WP: Zack Weiss (1–0)   LP: Manny Barreda (0–1) Home runs: ISR: Danny Valencia (2) MEX: None Boxscore

Round 2

2 August 12:00
Yokohama Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Israel	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	X	X	1	3	2
South Korea (7)	1	2	0	0	7	0	1	X	X	11	18	0
WP: Cho Sang-woo (1–0)   LP: Joey Wagman (0–2) Home runs: ISR: None KOR: Oh Ji-hwan (2), Hyun-soo Kim (2) Boxscore

Round 1 repechage

3 August 19:00
Yokohama Stadium

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Israel	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	0	6	9	2
Dominican Republic	1	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	2	7	9	1
WP: Luis Felipe Castillo (1–1)   LP: Zack Weiss (1–1) Home runs: ISR: Danny Valencia (3) DOM: Jeison Guzman (1), Johan Mieses (1) Boxscore

Alberto Michán Halbinger

Israel fielded a squad of three equestrian riders in the Olympic team jumping competition. In July 2019, Team Israel's Daniel Bluman, Ashlee Bond, Danielle G. Waldman, and Elad Yaniv won the Olympic Jumping Qualifier at Maxima Park in Moscow, qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics, the first time that Israel has earned a place in the Olympics in equestrian.[22][23] However, due to a technicality regarding the registration of his horse Gemma W, Bluman was deemed ineligible to compete just weeks prior to the start of the competition.[24] The Israel Equestrian Federation decided that Ashlee Bond, Alberto Michán, Danielle G. Waldman, and Teddy Vlock would represent Israel at the games, with the identity of the three riders who would participate in each day's event to be determined the day before.

Baruch Shmailov

Peter Paltchik

Sagi Muki

Or Sasson

Israel qualified a squad of 12 judoka (six men and six women) for each of the following weight classes at the Games by the IJF World Ranking List of 28 June 2021.[27]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Baruch Shmailov	−66 kg	—	Loforte (MOZ) W 11–00s1	Katz (AUS) W 01–00	Margvelashvili (GEO) L 00–10	Did not advance	Gomboc (SLO) W 01–00s1	Cargnin (BRA) L 00s1–01s1	5
Tohar Butbul	−73 kg	Bye	No competitor W 10–00 (FG)	Sterpu (MDA) W 10–00	An C-r (KOR) L 00s1–01s1	Did not advance	Margelidon (CAN) L 00–10s2	Did not advance	7
Sagi Muki	−81 kg	Bye	Santos (BRA) W 10–00	Borchashvili (AUT) L 00s2-01s2	Did not advance				9
Li Kochman	−90 kg	Bye	Klammert (CZE) W 10–00s1	Bekauri (GEO) L 01s1-10	Did not advance				9
Peter Paltchik	−100 kg	—	Bye	Lkhagvasürengiin (MGL) W 01s1–00s2	Wolf (JPN) L 00s1–01s1	Did not advance	El Nahas (CAN) L 00–10s1	Did not advance	7
Or Sasson	+100 kg	—	Bye	Riner (FRA) L 00–01	Did not advance				9

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Shira Rishony	−48 kg	Álvarez (COL) W 10–00	Figueroa (ESP) W 10–00	Mönkhbat (MGL) L 00–11	Did not advance	Lin C-h (TPE) W 10s1–00s2	Bilodid (UKR) L 00s1–10s1	5
Gili Cohen	−52 kg	Babamuratova (TKM) W 10s1–00	Van Snick (BEL) L 00–10	Did not advance				9
Timna Nelson-Levy	−57 kg	Bye	Perišić (SRB) W 10s1–00s3	Yoshida (JPN) L 00s1–01	Did not advance	Kajzer (SLO) L 00–10s2	Did not advance	7
Gili Sharir	−63 kg	Haecker (AUS) L 00s3–10s2	Did not advance					17
Inbar Lanir	−78 kg	Otgon (MGL) W 10–00	Aguiar (BRA) L 00–10	Did not advance				9
Raz Hershko	+78 kg	Alqahtani (KSA) W 11–00	Sone (JPN) L 00–11	Did not advance				9

Mixed

The Israel national judo team members, wearing their bronze medals from the 2020 Summer Olympics Mixed Team event in 2021

The Tokyo games hosted the first Judo Mixed team event. Nations qualifying at least one athlete in the −57 (−48, −52 & -57), −70 (−57, −63 & -70) & +70 (−70, −78 & +78) weight categories for women, and at least one athlete in the −73 (−60, −66 & -73), −90 (−73, −81 & -90) & +90 (−90, −100 & +100) weight categories for men, would compete in the team event. The Israeli team has qualified to the event, and won a bronze medal.[28]

Team	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM	Rank
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Tohar Butbul Raz Hershko Li Kochman Inbar Lanir Sagi Muki Timna Nelson-Levy Peter Paltchik Shira Rishony Or Sasson Gili Sharir Baruch Shmailov	Team	Italy (ITA) W 4–3	France (FRA) L 3–4	Did not advance	Brazil (BRA) W 4–2	ROC W 4–1

Yoav Cohen

Israeli sailors qualified three boats in each of the following classes. Gil Cohen and Noa Lasry secured a quota for the Israeli delegation by finishing eleventh in the women's 470 event at the 2018 Sailing World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark.[29][30] Ofek Elimelech and Mia Morris finished twelfth and fourteenth in their respective RS:X class. Both of these results promised two more quotas for the Israeli delegation.[31] Shay Kakon secured another quota for the Israeli delegation through the Europe Laser Radial qualification event in Vilamoura, Portugal.[32]

Katy Spychakov secured her place on the Israeli squad, after she topped the overall ranking of Israel's selection meets. Yoav Cohen finished in fifth place at the 2021 RS:X World Championships and tied with Shahar Tzuberi in israel’s selection ranking. Gur Steinberg, the team's coach, decided that Cohen would be the representative for the Games instead of Zubari, who had been chosen before the postponement of the Olympics. Shahar Tibi and Noya Bar Am were chosen to represent Israel in the 470 event, while Kakon was selected in the women's Laser Radial.

Israeli shooter Sergey Richter achieved quota places for the delegation in the men's 10 metre air rifle, by winning the gold medal at the 2019 European Games.[33][34] This was his third appearance at the Olympics.

Anat Lelior

Israel sent one surfer to compete in the women's shortboard at the Games. Anat Lelior secured a qualification slot for the nation as the highest-ranked surfer from Europe and one of the top 30 surfers in the overall open division at the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games in Miyazaki, Japan.[35]

Matan Roditi

Gal Cohen Groumi

Itay Goldfaden

Anastasia Gorbenko

Andrea Murez

Qualification for Israeli swimmers in the individual swimming events in Tokyo is accomplished by achieving the qualifying standards in the events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):[36][37] All Israeli swimmers must attain the FINA Olympic A-cut at one of the selection meets approved by the Israeli Swimming Association (ISA), or one percent faster at any other competition.

Israel can also enter a team for relay events with a top-12 finish at the 2019 FINA World Championships, provided that at least two swimmers in each relay event are qualified for any of the individual events.

Matan Roditi became the first Israeli swimmer to compete in the open water marathon at the Games after finishing fourth in the 10 km at the 2021 FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier in Setubal, Portugal.[38]

Men

Women

Mixed

Avishag Semberg

Israel entered one athlete into the taekwondo competition at the Games. Avishag Semberg secured a spot in the women's flyweight category (49 kg) with a top-two finish at the 2021 European Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.[39] The 19-year-old won the bronze medal.[40]

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Avishag Semberg	Women's −49 kg	Stambaugh (PUR) W 22–2 PTG	Wongpattanakit (THA) L 5–29 PTG	Did not advance		Trương (VIE) W 22–1 PTG	Yıldırım (TUR) W 27–22

Shachar Sagiv

Israel entered two triathletes to compete at the Games. Brothers Ran and Shachar Sagiv were selected among the top 26 triathletes competing in the men's event based on the ITU World Rankings.[41] The Olympic Committee of Israel confirmed the participation of the two.

Israel entered one weightlifter into the Olympic competition. David Litvinov received the slot left open by Brazilian Fernando Reis after he failed the pre-competition drug test.[42][43]

• Israel at the Olympics
• Israel at the 2020 Summer Paralympics