Israel at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Israel at the 1996 Summer Olympics
IOC code	ISR
NOC	Olympic Committee of Israel
Website	www.olympicsil.co.il (in Hebrew and English)
in Atlanta
Competitors	25 (18 men and 7 women) in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman[1]
Medals Ranked 71st	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Israel competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 25 competitors, 18 men and 7 women, took part in 26 events in 10 sports.^[2] Gal Fridman won a bronze medal in Sailing, the only medal won by an Israeli at these games.

Medalists[]

Bronze[]

• Gal Fridman — Sailing, Men's Mistral Individual Competition

Results by event[]

Athletics[]

Gender	Event	Participant	Round	Result	Place	Ref
Men's	Triple Jump	Rogel Nachum	Qualification	16.67m	17th place
	High Jump	Konstantin Matusevich	Qualification	2.26m	17th place
	Pole Vault	Danny Krasnov	Qualification	5.60m	12th place
			Final	5.60m	11th place
		Konstantin Semyonov	Qualification	5.40m	20th place

Boxing[]

Event	Participant	Round	Result	Ref
Flyweight (– 51 kg)	Vladislav Neiman	First round	Lost to Bolat Dzhumadilov  Kazakhstan 7:18

Canoeing[]

Gender	Event	Participant	Round	Time	Place	Ref
Women's	K-1 500m	Lior Carmi	Heat	1:57.675	6th place
			Repechage	2:05.737	4th place
			Semi-final	1:54.899	7th place

Fencing[]

Gender	Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Women's	Foil	Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman
		Ayelet Ohayon
		Lilach Parisky
	Team foil	Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman Ayelet Ohayon Lilach Parisky	9th place

Judo[]

Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Men's Under-78 kg	Oren Smadja
Women's Under-61 kg	Yael Arad	5th place

Sailing[]

Gender	Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Men's	Mistral	Gal Fridman	Bronze
	470	Nir Shantal & Ran Shantal	19th place
Women's	470	Shani Kedmi & Anat Fabrikant	12th place

Shooting[]

Gender	Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Men's	10 m Air Rifle	Boris Polak	33rd place
		10 m Air Pistol	39th place
	50 m Free Rifle 3 Position	Boris Polak	22nd place
		Guy Starik	13th place
	50 m Free Rifle Prone	Boris Polak	20th place
		Guy Starik	26th place
	50 m Free Pistol	Alex Tripolski	16th place
	10 m Air Pistol	Alex Tripolski	39th place

Swimming[]

Gender	Event	Participant	Round	Time	Result	Place	Ref
Men's	50m Freestyle	Yoav Bruck	Heat	23.22	Did not advance	24th place
	100m Freestyle	Yoav Bruck	Heat	50.61	Did not advance	22nd place
	100m Backstroke	Eithan Urbach	Heat	56.74	Did not advance	22nd place
	100m Breaststroke	Vadim Alexeev	Heat	1:02.92	Did not advance	18th place
	200m Breaststroke	Vadim Alexeev	Heat	2:20.47	Did not advance	26th place
	100m Butterfly	Dan Kutler	Heat	55.11	Did not advance	31st place
	4 × 100 m Medley Relay	Eithan Urbach Vadim Alexeev Dan Kutler Yoav Bruck	Heat	3:42.24		8th place
			Final	3:42.90

Weightlifting[]

Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Men's Under 99 kg	Viacheslav Ivanovski	Did not finish

Wrestling[]

Style	Event	Participant	Round	Result	Place	Ref
Greco-Roman	Under-82 kg	Gotsha Tsitsiashvili	1st round	Beat  Tuomo Karila (FIN) 2:0	5th Place
			2nd round	Beat  Park Myung-Suk (KOR) 4:1
			Quarterfinals	Bye
			Semifinals	Lost to  Thomas Zander (GER) 1:3
			Repechage, 6th round	Lost to  Daulet Turlykhanov (KAZ) 0:4
			5th-6th place	Beat  Martin Lidberg (SWE) by walk-over

References[]

External links[]

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database