History

Israel made its first Summer Olympic appearance in 1952 and has competed ever since, with the exception of the 1980 Olympics where it participated in the United States led boycott. The nation sends a medium size delegation with at least 30 athletes competing at each Olympics since 2000. The athletes compete in various sports with the most common ones being, athletics, fencing, gymnastics, judo, sailing, shooting and swimming.

Israel won its first medal at the 1992 Olympics and has won a total of nine medals across three sports; five in judo, three in sailing and one in canoeing. The most successful athlete is sailor Gal Fridman where he won bronze at the 1996 Olympics in the men’s Mistral class and in 2004 he won the nation’s only gold medal in the same event. In 2016 Israel won two medals.

Qualified Quotas

Archery

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Individual	Itay Shanny	Itay Shanny

Artistic Swimming

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s Duet	Eden Blecher Shelly Bobritsky	Eden Blecher Shelly Bobritsky

Athletics

Men’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Marathon	Over 3 Eligible Athletes

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 100m	Diana Vaisman
Women’s 5000m	Lonah Salpeter	Declined
	Selamawit Dagnachew
Women’s 10000m	Lonah Salpeter
	Selamawit Dagnachew
Women’s 3000m Steeplechase	Adva Cohen
Women’s Marathon	Lonah Salpeter
	Maor Tiyouri
Women’s Triple Jump	Hanna Knyazyeva Minenko

Badminton

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Singles	Misha Zilberman	Misha Zilberman
Women’s Singles	Ksenia Polikarpova	Ksenia Polikarpova

Baseball/Softball

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Baseball	Jeremy Bleich Eric Brodkowitz Gabriel Cramer Jonathan de Marte Tal Erel Blake Gailen Mitchell Glasser Tyler Kelly Alon Leichman Shlomo Lipetz Assaf Lowengart Jonathan Moscot Robert Paller Dean Pelman Zachary Penprase Nicholas Rickels Simon Rosenbaum Jacob Rosenberg David Sharabi Daniel Valencia Joseph Wagman Benjamin Wanger Zachary Weiss Jeremy Wolf	Jeremy Bleich Scott Burcham Jonathan de Marte Tal Erel Jake Fishman Blake Gailen Mitchell Glasser Alexander Katz Tyler Kelly Ian Kinsler Jared Lakind Ryan Lavarnway Alon Leichman Shlomo Lipetz Assaf Lowengart Jonathan Moscot Robert Paller Zachary Penprase Nicholas Rickels Daniel Valencia Joseph Wagman Benjamin Wanger Zachary Weiss Joshua Zeid

Cycling

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Cross-Country	Shlomi Haimy	Shlomi Haimy
Women’s Road Race	Omer Shapira	Omer Shapira
Women’s Time Trial	Omer Shapira	Omer Shapira

Equestrian

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Individual Jumping	From Team Quota	Alberto Michan Horse: Cosa Nostra
	From Team Quota	Ashlee Bond Horse: Donatello 141
	From Team Quota	Teddy Vlock Horse: Amsterdam 27
Team Jumping	Daniel Bluman Horse: Ladriano Z Ashlee Bond Horse: Chela LS Elad Yaniv Horse: Alvaro du Gue Dani Waldman Horse: Lizziemary	Alberto Michan Horse: Cosa Nostra Ashlee Bond Horse: Donatello 141 Teddy Vlock Horse: Amsterdam 27

Gymnastics

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Artistic Individual Events (1) (2)	Alexander Shatilov	Alexander Shatilov
	Artem Dolgopyat	Artem Dolgopyat
Women’s Artistic Individual Events	Lihie Raz	Lihie Raz
Women’s Rhythmic Individual All-Around	Linoy Ashram	Linoy Ashram
	Nicol Zelikman	Nicol Zelikman
Women’s Rhythmic Group All-Around	Shai Ben Ruby Ofir Dayan Yana Kramarenko Natalie Raits Bar Shapochnikov Karin Vexman	Ofir Dayan Yana Kramarenko Natalie Raits Yuliana Telegina Karin Vexman

Judo

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s -66kg	Over 1 Eligible Athlete	Baruch Shmailob
Men’s -73kg	Tohar Butbul	Tohar Butbul
Men’s -81kg	Sagi Muki	Sagi Muki
Men’s -90kg	Li Kochman	Li Kochman
Men’s -100kg	Peter Paltchik	Peter Paltchik
Men’s +100kgkg	Or Sasson	Or Sasson
Women’s -48kg	Shira Rishony	Shira Rishony
Women’s -52kg	Over 1 Eligible Athlete	Gili Cohen
Women’s -57kg	Timna Nelson Levy	Timna Nelson Levy
Women’s -63kg	Gili Sharir	Gili Sharir
Women’s -78kg	Inbar Lanir	Inbar Lanir
Women’s +78kg	Raz Hershko	Raz Hershko
Mixed Team	Eligible to compete

Sailing

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s RS:X	Ofek Elimeleh	Yoav Cohen
Women’s RS:X	Maya Morris	Katy Spychakov
Women’s Laser Radial	Shay Kakon	Shay Kakon
Women’s 470	Gil Cohen Noa Lasry	Noya Bar Am Shahar Tibi

Shooting

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 10m Air Rifle	Sergey Richter	Sergey Richter

Surfing

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s Shortboard	Anat Lelior	Anat Lelior

Swimming

Men’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s 50m Freestyle	Meiron Cheruti
Men’s 100m Backstroke	Yakov Toumarkin
Men’s 100m Butterfly	Tomer Frankel
Men’s 200m Individual Medley	Ron Polonsky
	Yakov Toumarkin
Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay	Denis Loktev Daniel Namir Tomer Frankel Gal Cohen Groumi
Men’s 10km Open Water	Matan Roditi

Women’s Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s 100m Freestyle	Anastasya Gorbenko
	Andrea Murez
Women’s 200m Individual Medley	Anastasya Gorbenko
Women’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay	Qualified Via Rankings	Declined By NOC

Mixed Events

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay	Anastasia Gorbenko Itay Goldfaden Tomer Frankel Andrea Murez

Taekwondo

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Women’s -49kg	Avishag Semberg	Avishag Semberg

Triathlon

Event	Qualifying Athletes	Selected Athletes
Men’s Individual	Shachar Sagiv	Shachar Sagiv
	Ran Sagiv	Ran Sagiv