List of Olympic medalists from Israel

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The Olympic Committee of Israel was established in 1933 and admitted to the International Olympic Committee in 1952 .

Medals balance

So far, eight athletes from Israel have won nine Olympic medals (1 gold, 1 silver and 7 bronze).

total	1	1	7th	9		total	0	0	0	0
Israel at the Summer Olympics							Israel at the Winter Olympics
year	gold	silver	bronze	total	rank	year	gold	silver	bronze	total	rank
1952	0	0	0	0		1952	-	-	-	-	-
1956	0	0	0	0		1956	-	-	-	-	-
1960	0	0	0	0		1960	-	-	-	-	-
1964	0	0	0	0		1964	-	-	-	-	-
1968	0	0	0	0		1968	-	-	-	-	-
1972	0	0	0	0		1972	-	-	-	-	-
1976	0	0	0	0		1976	-	-	-	-	-
1980	-	-	-	-	-	1980	-	-	-	-	-
1984	0	0	0	0		1984	-	-	-	-	-
1988	0	0	0	0		1988	-	-	-	-	-
1992	0	1	1	2	48	1992	-	-	-	-	-
1996	0	0	1	1	71	1994	0	0	0	0
2000	0	0	1	1	70	1998	0	0	0	0
2004	1	0	1	2	52	2002	0	0	0	0
2008	0	0	1	1	81	2006	0	0	0	0
2012	0	0	0	0		2010	0	0	0	0
2016	0	0	2	2	77	2014	0	0	0	0
2020	-	-	-	-	-	2018	0	0	0	0

						Ges. S + W	1	1	7th	9

Medalist

Surname	sport	Year / discipline	gold	silver	bronze	total
Yael Arad	Judo	Barcelona 1992 : light middleweight (up to 61 kg) , women	0	1	0	1
Gal Fridman	sailing	Atlanta 1996 : windsurfing , men	0	0	1	2
Gal Fridman	sailing	Athens 2004 : windsurfing , men	1	0	0	2
Yarden Gerbi	Judo	Rio de Janiero 2016 : light middleweight (up to 63 kg) , women	0	0	1	1
Michael Kolganov	canoe	Sydney 2000 : single kayak 500 m , men	0	0	1	1
Or Sasson	Judo	Rio de Janiero 2016 : Heavyweight (over 100 kg) , men	0	0	1	1
Oren Smadja	Judo	Barcelona 1992 : lightweight (up to 71 kg) , men	0	0	1	1
Ariel Zeevi	Judo	Athens 2004 : light heavyweight (up to 100 kg) , men	0	0	1	1
Shahar Zubari	sailing	Beijing 2008 : windsurfing , men	0	0	1	1

history

The Olympic Committee of Israel was founded in 1933 and was admitted to the International Olympic Committee in 1952 . Israel first took part in an Olympiad in 1952 at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , the Israeli team met with a tragic fate when 11 athletes were murdered by PLO terrorists .

In 1978 Israel was excluded from Asian sports federations. Admission to most European associations was refused by the Eastern Bloc countries . The Israeli national team had to participate in the Olympic qualification in the group for Oceania in the following years. It was not until the end of the Cold War that Israel was accepted into the other European sports associations.

The first medals could not be won until 1992 at the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona . Israel first took part in the Winter Games at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer .

At the 2004 Olympics in Athens , the favorite Iranian judoka Arash Miresmaeili refused to compete against his Israeli first-round opponent Ehud Vaks and was thus eliminated from the Olympic tournament without having fought .

The Iranian swimmer Mohammad Alirezaei decided not to start in the men's 100 m chest run at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing because Israeli Tom Beeri was also registered in this run.