Israel at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Israel will compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. This will be Israel’s 14th participation in the summer Olympics. As of June 23, 2008, 39 Israeli sportsmen qualified for the Olympics in 10 sports. This is the second largest Israeli delegation in history, one less than at Sydney 2000. Shooter Guy Starek is set to become the second Israeli in Olympic history to participate in 4 Olympic Games.

The Delegation:

Athletics

Men’s Pole Vault:

• Aleksander Averbukh

Men’s Marathon:

• Haile Satayin

Men’s High Jump:

• Niki Palli

Fencing

Men’s Foil:

• Tomer Or

Women’s Épée:

• Noam Mills

Women’s Foil:

• Delila Hatuel

Gymnastics

Men’s Artistic All-around:

• Alexander Shatilov

Women’s Rhythmic Individual:

• Irina Risenson
• Neta Rivkin

Women’s Rhythmic team:

• Katerina Pizezky
• Alena Dvornichenko
• Maria Savenkov
• Rahel Vigdorchick
• Veronika Vitenberg

Judo

Men’s -60 kg:

• Gal Yekuotiel

Men’s -100 kg:

• Ariel Ze’evi

Women’s -63 kg:

• Alice Shlesinger

Sailing

Men’s Neil Pryde RS:X:

• Shahar Tzuberi

Men’s 470:

• Gideon Kliger and Udi Gal

Women’s Neil Pryde RS:X:

• Maayan Davidovich

Women’s 470:

• Nika Kornitzky and Vered Buskila

Women’s Laser Radial:

• Nufar Edelman

Shooting

Men’s 50 metre rifle prone:

• Gil Simkovich
• Guy Starek

Men’s 50 metre 3 positions:

• Doron Egozi

Swimming

Men’s 100 metre backstroke:

• Guy Barne’a

Men’s 200 metre backstroke:

• Itay Chama

Men’s 200 metre breaststroke:

• Tom Be’eri

Men’s 200 metre freesyle:

• Max Jaben

Men’s 200 metre individual medley:

• Gal Nevo

Women’s 100 metre backstroke:

• Anya Gostomelsky

Synchronized Swimming

Duet Women

• Anastasia Gloushkov and Inna Yoffe

Taekwondo

Women’s -57 kg:

• Bat-El Gaterer

Tennis

Men’s doubles:

• Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram

Women’s singles:

• Shahar Pe’er