Inbar Lanir

Inbar Lanir
Personal information
Native nameענבר לניר‎
Born (2000-04-03) 3 April 2000 (age 24)
Yokneam Illit, Israel[2]
OccupationJudoka
Websiteinbarlanir.com Edit this at Wikidata
Sport
Country Israel
SportJudo
Weight class‍–‍78 kg
Rank     3rd dan black belt[1]
Achievements and titles
Olympic GamesSilver (2024)
World Champ.Gold (2023)
European Champ.Bronze (2023, 2024)
Highest world ranking1st[3][4]
Medal record
Women's judo
Representing  Israel
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Mixed team
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Doha ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Tashkent Mixed team
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Montpellier ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Zagreb ‍–‍78 kg
World Masters
Gold medal – first place 2023 Budapest ‍–‍78 kg
IJF Grand Slam
Gold medal – first place 2023 Ulaanbaatar ‍–‍78 kg
Silver medal – second place 2021 Baku ‍–‍78 kg
Silver medal – second place 2022 Ulaanbaatar ‍–‍78 kg
Silver medal – second place 2022 Budapest ‍–‍78 kg
Silver medal – second place 2023 Tokyo ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Tashkent ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Tbilisi ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Paris ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Abu Dhabi ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Tbilisi ‍–‍78 kg
IJF Grand Prix
Silver medal – second place 2022 Zagreb ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Almada ‍–‍78 kg
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place 2020 Poreč ‍–‍78 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Izhevsk ‍–‍78 kg
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Poreč ‍–‍78 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF20209
JudoInside.com95372
Updated on 2 August 2024

Inbar Lanir (Hebrew: ענבר לניר; born 3 April 2000) is an Israeli Olympic silver medalist judoka and 2023 world champion.[5] She competes in the under 78 kg weight category. She also won a mixed-team bronze medal at the 2020 Olympic Games. In addition to winning the 2023 world championship, she won gold medals at the 2023 World Masters and the 2023 Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam. Lanir competed for Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics, and won the silver medal in the women's 78 kg, while she also represented Israel in the mixed team event, in which Team Israel came in ninth. As of November 2024, Lanir is the top ranked Israeli judoka.[6]

Early and personal life

Lanir was born in Yokneam Illit in northern Israel and later moved with her family to Yehud, Israel, and is Jewish.[7][8] Her mother Michal is an architect and former judoka, while her father Ronen is a project manager.[2][9][10][11] In her early years, Lanir practiced ballet and floor artistic gymnastics prior to her judo training.[2][9] She feels that ballet helped her in judo a great deal, as it trained her in movement.[8] Lanir received the status of outstanding athlete from the Israeli Defense Forces, served as a triathlete, and at 18 years of age moved to the Wingate Institute; there Lanir has trained since.[8]

Judo career

2016–18; Israeli U21 Champion

She won the silver medal in the 2016 European Cup Cadets in Antalya, Turkey, and a bronze medal in 2016 European Cup Cadets in Zagreb, Croatia.[5] She won the gold medal in the 2016 Israeli U21 Championships in Ra'anana.[5]

She won bronze medals in the 2017 European Cup U21 in Athens, Greece, and in the 2017 European Cup Cadets in Ploiesti, Romania.[5] She won the silver medal in the 2017 Israeli Championship in Ra'anana.[5]

She won the silver medal in the 2018 Israeli Championship in Tel Aviv.[5]

2019–21; European U23 Champion

She won bronze medals in the 2019 European U21 Championships in Vantaa, Finland, and the 2019 European U23 Championships in Izhevsk, Russia.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] She won the gold medal in the 2019 Israeli Championship in Tel Aviv.[5]

Lanir won the 2020 European U23 Championships in Poreč, Croatia, and won the bronze medal in the 2020 European Junior Judo Championships, in Poreč.[20][21][22][23] She won the gold medal in the 2020 Israeli U21 Championships in Ra'anana.[5]

In the 2021 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Lanir placed 7th after winning her first two matches, losing in the quarterfinal and the repechage.[24][25] That same year Lanir won a silver medal at the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Baku, and bronze medals in the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Paris, the 2021 Judo Grand Slam Abu Dhabi, the 2021 Tashkent Grand Slam, and the 2021 Tbilisi Grand Slam.[26][27][28][29][30][5] She won the gold medal in the 2021 Israeli Championship in Ra'annana.[5]

2020 Tokyo Olympics (in 2021); bronze medal

Lanir represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics, competing at the women's 78 kg weight category. In her first match, she beat Mongolian Otgony Mönkhtsetseg with an 18 seconds ippon. In the round of 16, she lost to the Brazilian former two-time world champion, Mayra Aguiar, ending her part in the individual competition.[31][32][33][34] She won a bronze medal in the Olympic Games Tokyo Mixed Team.[35]

2022–present; World Champion

In 2022, Lanir won silver medals at each of the Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam in Mongolia,[36][37][38] Budapest Grand Slam,[39][40][41] and Zagreb Grand Prix.[42][43][44] She also won a bronze medal in her event at the Almada Grand Prix in Portugal.[45][46][47][48]

She won the 2023 World Championship in Doha, Qatar.[8] She said: "I am happy to dedicate the medal to the residents of the south [of Israel], who are going through a difficult time, to the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces and to the entire State of Israel. It was so important for me to do something good in such complex and difficult days."[8]

She also won the 2023 World Masters in Budapest, and the 2023 Judo Grand Slam Ulaanbaatar.[49][50][51][52][53][54] Following that, Lanir was chosen by the European Judo Union as that year's European Athlete of the Year.[55][56] She won a bronze medal at the 2023 European Judo Championships in Montpellier, France, a silver medal at the 2023 Judo Grand Slam Tokyo, and a bronze medal at the 2023 Judo Grand Slam Tbilisi.[5] She won the gold medal in the 2023 Israeli Championship.[5]

She won a bronze medal at the 2024 European Judo Championships in Zagreb.[5]

2024 Paris Olympics; Silver medal

Lanir won the silver medal in the women's 78 kg representing Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She beat Mongolia’s Otgonbayaryn Khüslen in the round of 16, the Netherlands’ Guusje Steenhuis in the round of 16, and Germany’s world champion Anna-Maria Wagner in the semifinal match, before losing to Italy’s Alice Bellandi in the gold medal match.[57] She also represented Israel in the mixed team event, in which Team Israel came in ninth.[58]

Titles

Source:[59][5]

Year Tournament Place Ref.
2021 Grand Slam Tashkent 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) [26][27]
Grand Slam Tbilisi 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) [29][30]
Grand Slam Paris 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) [60][61][62]
Grand Slam Baku 2nd place, silver medalist(s) [63][64]
Grand Slam Abu Dhabi 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) [65][66][67]
2022 Grand Prix Almada 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) [46][47][48]
Grand Slam Ulaanbaatar 2nd place, silver medalist(s) [36][37][38]
Grand Slam Budapest 2nd place, silver medalist(s) [39][40][41]
Grand Prix Zagreb 2nd place, silver medalist(s) [42][43][44]
2023 Grand Slam Tbilisi 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) [68][69][70]
World Championships 1st place, gold medalist(s) [71][72][73][74]
Grand Slam Ulaanbaatar 1st place, gold medalist(s) [49][50][51]
World Masters 1st place, gold medalist(s) [52][53][54]
European Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) [75][76][77]
Grand Slam Tokyo 2nd place, silver medalist(s) [78][79][80]
2024 European Championships 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) [81][82][83]

See also

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