Israel at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Israel at the
1996 Summer Olympics
IOC codeISR
NOCOlympic Committee of Israel
Websitewww.olympicsil.co.il (in Hebrew and English)
in Atlanta
Competitors25 (18 men and 7 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman[1]
Medals
Ranked 71st
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
1
Total
1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Israel competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 25 competitors, 18 men and 7 women, took part in 26 events in 10 sports.[2] Gal Fridman won a bronze medal in Sailing, the only medal won by an Israeli at these games.

Medalists

Bronze

  • Gal Fridman — Sailing, Men's Mistral Individual Competition

Results by event

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Gender Event Participant Round Result Place Ref
Men's Triple Jump Rogel Nachum Qualification 16.67m 17th place
High Jump Konstantin Matusevich Qualification 2.26m 17th place
Pole Vault Danny Krasnov Qualification 5.60m 12th place
Final 5.60m 11th place
Konstantin Semyonov Qualification 5.40m 20th place

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Event Participant Round Result Ref
Flyweight (– 51 kg) Vladislav Neiman First round Lost to Bolat Dzhumadilov  Kazakhstan 7:18

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Gender Event Participant Round Time Place Ref
Women's K-1 500m Lior Carmi Heat 1:57.675 6th place
Repechage 2:05.737 4th place
Semi-final 1:54.899 7th place

Fencing

Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman
Main article: Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Gender Event Participant Result Ref
Women's Foil Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman
Ayelet Ohayon
Lilach Parisky
Team foil Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman
Ayelet Ohayon
Lilach Parisky 		9th place

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Event Participant Result Ref
Men's Under-78 kg Oren Smadja
Women's Under-61 kg Yael Arad 5th place

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Gender Event Participant Result Ref
Men's Mistral Gal Fridman Bronze
470 Nir Shantal & Ran Shantal 19th place
Women's 470 Shani Kedmi & Anat Fabrikant 12th place

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Gender Event Participant Result Ref
Men's 10 m Air Rifle Boris Polak 33rd place
10 m Air Pistol Alex Tripolski 39th place
50 m Free Rifle 3 Position Boris Polak 22nd place
Guy Starik 13th place
50 m Free Rifle Prone Boris Polak 20th place
Guy Starik 26th place
50 m Free Pistol Alex Tripolski 16th place
10 m Air Pistol Alex Tripolski 39th place

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Gender Event Participant Round Time Result Place Ref
Men's 50m Freestyle Yoav Bruck Heat 23.22 Did not advance 24th place
100m Freestyle Yoav Bruck Heat 50.61 Did not advance 22nd place
100m Backstroke Eithan Urbach Heat 56.74 Did not advance 22nd place
100m Breaststroke Vadim Alexeev Heat 1:02.92 Did not advance 18th place
200m Breaststroke Vadim Alexeev Heat 2:20.47 Did not advance 26th place
100m Butterfly Dan Kutler Heat 55.11 Did not advance 31st place
4 × 100 m Medley Relay Eithan Urbach
Vadim Alexeev
Dan Kutler
Yoav Bruck 		Heat 3:42.24 8th place
Final 3:42.90

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Event Participant Result Ref
Men's Under 99 kg Viacheslav Ivanovski Did not finish

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Style Event Participant Round Result Place Ref
Greco-Roman Under-82 kg Gotsha Tsitsiashvili 1st round Beat  Tuomo Karila (FIN) 2:0 5th Place
2nd round Beat  Park Myung-Suk (KOR) 4:1
Quarterfinals Bye
Semifinals Lost to  Thomas Zander (GER) 1:3
Repechage, 6th round Lost to  Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ) 0:4
5th-6th place Beat  Martin Lidberg (SWE) by walk-over

References

  1. ^ Israel Archived 28 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Israel at the 1996 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 14 September 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2012.