Israel at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Israel at the Olympic Games
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At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
Competitors	30 (25 men and 5 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Eldad Amir[1]
Medals Rank: 48	Gold 0	Silver 1	Bronze 1	Total 2
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Israel competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 30 competitors, 25 men and 5 women, took part in 42 events in 10 sports.^[2] Israel won its first ever Olympic medals at these Games. The first medallist in Israel's history was Yael Arad, who won silver on July 30 in judo's under-61 kg category for women,^[3] and she was followed a day later by another judoka, Oren Smadja, who won bronze in men's under-71 kg category.^[4]

Medalists

Silver

• Yael Arad — Judo, Women's Half-Middleweight

Bronze

• Oren Smadja — Judo, Men's Lightweight

Results by event

Athletics

Gender	Event	Participant	Round	Time	Place	Result	Ref
Men's	400m Hurdles	Aleksey Bazarov	Heat	50.33 sec	31st place	Did not advance
	Triple Jump	Rogel Nachum	Qualification	16.23 m	24th place	Did not advance
	Men's Javelin Throw	Vadim Bavikin	Qualification	73.88 m	23rd place	Did not advance
	Pole Vault	Danny Krasnov	Qualification	5.60 m	8th place
			Final	5.40 m

Fencing

Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Women's foil	Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman	23rd place

Gymnastics

Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Men's all around	Ron Kaplan	65th place

Judo

Gender	Event	Participant	Result	Metal	Ref
Women's	Under-61 kg	Yael Arad	beat Begona Gomez Martin ( Spain)	Silver
			beat Miroslava Janosikova ( Czechoslovakia)
			beat Frauke Eickoff ( Germany)
			lost in final to Catherine Fleury ( France)
Men's	Under-71 kg	Oren Smadja	beat Taher Muhammed ( Djibouti)	Bronze
			beat Billy Gosack ( Great Britain)
			lost to Chung Hoon ( South Korea)
			beat Massimo Sulli ( Italy)
			beat Khaliun Boldbaatar ( Mongolia)
			beat Stefan Dott ( Germany)
	Under-95 kg	Simon Migrashvili	lost to Guido Luigi ( Italy)
	Under-60 kg	Amit Lang	lost to Yoon Hyun ( South Korea)
			loat to Willis Bernardo Garcia ( Venezuela)

Sailing

Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)	Amit Inbar	8th place 118.1 points
Men's 470 Class	Shai Bachar and Erez Shemesh	9th place
Men's Flying Dutchman Class	Yoel Sela and Eldad Amir	20th place

Shooting

Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Men's Running Target	Eduard Alayev	564 points 15th place
Men's Rifle Prone	Menachem Ilan	590 points 39th place
Men's Rifle 3-Positions	Menachem Ilan	1132 points 41st place
Women's Sport Pistol	Yelena Tripolski	573 points 21st place
Women's Air Pistol	Yelena Tripolski	372 points 37th place

Swimming

Gender	Event	Participant	Round	Time	Ranking	Result	Note	Ref
Men's	50m Freestyle	Yoav Bruck	Heat	23.72	32nd place	Did not advance
	100m Freestyle	Yoav Bruck	Heat	51.46	31st place	Did not advance
	100m Backstroke	Eran Groumi	Heat	57.67	28th place	Did not advance
	200m Backstroke	Eran Groumi	Heat	2:07.91	37th place	Did not advance
	100m Butterfly	Eran Groumi	Heat	55.18	20th place	Did not advance	National record
Women's	50m Freestyle	Keren Ragal	Heat	27.93	41st place	Did not advance
	100m Butterfly	Timea Toth	Heat	1:03.18	29th place	Did not advance	National record
	200m Butterfly	Timea Toth	Heat	2:16.84	20th place	Did not advance
	200m Individual Medley	Keren Ragal	Heat	2:27.85	37th place	Did not advance
	400m Individual Medley	Keren Ragal	Heat	5:07.97	29th place	Did not advance

Tennis

Event	Participant	Round	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Result	Ref
Men's Singles Competition	Gilad Bloom	First round	7-6	6-1	6-0	Defeated Marián Vajda (Czechoslovakia)
		Second round	2-6	0-6	0-6	Lost to Jim Courier (United States)

Weightlifting

Event	Participant	Weight	Result	Ref
Men's Under 100 kg	Andrei Denisov	377.5 kg	6th place
Men's Under 60 kg	Reuven Hadinatov	267.5 kg	15th place
Men's Under 75 kg	Oleg Sadikhov	332.5 kg	10th place

Wrestling

Gender	Style	Event	Participant	Result	Place	Ref
Men's	Greco-Roman wrestling	Under-48 kg	Matwai Baranov	lost to Stoyan Stoyanov ( Bulgaria) 0:2
				lost to Rodney Smith ( United States) by fall
		Under-62 kg	Aleksander Davidovich	lost to Sergei Martynov ( Unified Team) 1:8
				lost to Shigeki Nishiguchi ( Japan) 0:2
		Under-48 kg	Nik Zagranitchni	beat Omer Elmas ( Turkey) 10:8	12th place
				lost to Mark Fuller ( United States) 1:2
				lost to Wilber Sanchez ( Cuba) 0:4
	Freestyle wrestling	Under-68 kg	Max Geller	beat Jesus Rodriguez ( Cuba) 2:1	11th place
				lost to Fatih Ozbas ( Turkey) 0:2
				drew with Endre Elekes ( Hungary) 0:0

References

1. Israel
2. "Israel at the 1992 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2011-12-25.
3. Yael Arad
4. "Judo: Olympic Games: Men: -71 kg". Sports 123. Retrieved 4 July 2015.