1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Israel)

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Israel took part in the Olympic Games for the sixth timeat the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . The country sent 14 athletes.

On September 5, 1972, the Israeli crew was attacked by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September . During the hostage-taking and the unsuccessful rescue attempt, eleven members of the Israeli team, including five athletes, were killed (marked with "†"). On September 6, 2017, the place of remembrance for the victims of the Olympics assassination in Munich's Olympiapark was inaugurated.

Participants by sport

athletics

Men

• Shaul Ladany

  50 km walking: 19.

Women

• Esther Roth

  100 m: semi-finals

  100 m hurdles: heats

fencing

Men

• Dan Alon

  Foil: Round of 16

• Yehuda Weissenstein

  Foil: Round of 16

Weightlifting

• David Berger †

  Light heavyweight: murdered

• Ze'ev Friedman †

  Bantamweight: 12th, murdered

• Yossef Romano †

  Middleweight: competition not finished, murdered

Wrestling

• Eliezer Halfin †

  Lightweight, freestyle: group stage, murdered

• Mark Slavin †

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: murdered

• Gad Tsobari

  Paper weight, freestyle: group stage

shoot

• Henry Hershkowitz

  Small bore lying: 23.

  Small bore three-position battle: 46.

• Zelig Stroch

  Small bore lying: 57.

swim

Women

• Shlomit Nir

  100 m chest: heats

  200 m chest: heats

sailing

• Yair Michaeli

  Flying Dutchman: competition canceled

• Itzhak Nir

  Flying Dutchman: competition canceled

Web links

• Israeli Olympic team from 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )