Israel at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Israel at the Olympic Games
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At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
Competitors	36 in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Ariel Zeevi (opening) Gal Fridman (closing)
Medals Rank: 52	Gold 1	Silver 0	Bronze 1	Total 2
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Israel competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Israel won its first ever gold medal at these Games.

Medalists

Gold

• Gal Fridman — Sailing, Men's Mistral

Bronze

• Ariel Zeevi — Judo, Men's Half-Heavyweight (100 kg)

Results by event

Athletics

Men's Pole Vault:

• Aleksander Averbukh

Qualifying – 5.70 metres (1st place)

Final – 5.65 metres (8th place)

Men's Marathon:

• Haile Satayin – 2:17.25 (20th place)
• Asaf Bimro – 2:25.20 (59th place)

Women's 100m Hurdles:

• Irina Lenskiy

Heat – 13.75 seconds (7th place)

Women's Marathon:

• Nili Abramski – 2:48.08 (42nd place)

Canoeing

Men's K1 500 metres:

• Michael Kolganov

Heat, 4th place

Semifinal, 8th place

Women's K1 500 metres:

• Larissa Peisakhovitch

Heat, 3rd place

Semifinal, 2nd place

Final, 6th place

Men's K1 1000 metres:

• Roei Yellin

Heat, 3rd place

Semifinal, 3rd place

Final, 9th place

Fencing

Women's Foil Individual:

• Ayelet Ohayon

Lost to Simone Bauer (Germany) 5:10 in round of 32

Gymnastics

Artistic Gymnastics

Men's All-around:

• Pavel Gofman – final, 19th place

Rhythmic Gymnastics

Women's Individual:

• Katerina Pisetsky – 16th place

Judo

Men's 60 kg:

• Gal Yekutiel

Beat Albert Techov (Lithuania) in round of 64

Lost to Taraje Williams-Murray (USA) in round of 32

Men's 66 kg:

• Ehud Vaks

Beat Arash Miresmaeili (Iran) in round of 32 (Miresmaeili did not make weight [1] and was disqualified)

Lost to Amar Meridja (Algeria) in round of 16

Men's 73 kg:

• Yoel Razvozov

Beat Rubert Martinez Texidor (Cuba) in round of 32

Lost to Daniel Fernandes (France) in round of 16

Beat Xie Jianhua (China) in repechage round of 16

Lost to Leandro Guilheiro (Brazil) in repechage quarterfinal

Men's 100 kg:

• Ariel (Arik) Ze'evi – bronze medal

Beat Mario Sabino Jr. (Brazil) in round of 32

Beat Michele Monti (Italy) in round of 16

Lost to Jang Song-Ho (South Korea) in quarterfinal

Beat Franck Martial Moussima Ewane (Cameroon) in repechage quarterfinal

Beat Ghislain Lemaire (France) in repechage semifinal

Beat Elco van der Geest (Netherlands) in bronze medal final

Women's 52 kg:

• Michal Feinblat

Lost to Telma Monteiro (Portugal) in round of 16

Sailing

Men's Mistral

• Gal Fridman – gold medal

Men's 470

• Gideon Kliger and Udi Gal – 15th place

Women's Mistral

• Lee Korzitz – 13th place

Women's 470

• Nike Kornecki and Vered Buskila – 18th place

Shooting

Men's 50 metre pistol

• Alexander Danilov – 554 points (15th place)

Men's 50 metre rifle prone

• Guy Starik – 592 points (16th place)

Men's 10 metre air pistol

• Alexander Danilov – 577 points (20th place)

Swimming

Women's 200 metre individual medley

• Vered Borochovski – 2:20.62 (24th place)

Women's 100 metre butterfly

• Vered Borochovski – 1:00.69 (26th place)

Women's 100 metre backstroke

• Anna Gostomelsky – 1:04.06 (28th place)

Women's 100 metre freestyle

• Anna Gostomelsky – 57.15 (32nd place)

Women's 50 metre freestyle

• Anna Gostomelsky – 26.72 (35th place)

Synchronized swimming

Duet

• Anastasia Gloushkov and Inna Yoffe – 17th place

Table tennis

Women's singles

• Marina Kravchenko

beat Archontoula Volakaki (Greece) 4:0 in 1st round

beat Otilia Badescu (Romania) 4:2 in 2nd round

lost to Tamara Boros (Croatia) 0:4 in 3rd round

Taekwando

Women's 49 kg

• Maya Arusi

lost to Dalia Kontreras (Venezuela) 1:5 in round of 16

Tennis

Men's doubles

• Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram

beat Thomas Enqvist and Robin Söderling (Sweden) 7:5 6:3 in 1st round

beat Igor Andreev and Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) 6:4 6:1 in 2nd round

lost to Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schüttler (Germany) 6:2 2:6 2:6 in quarter-final

Women's singles

• Anna Smashnova

lost to Tathiana Garbin (Italy) 2:6 1:6 in 1st round

Wrestling

Men's Greco-Roman 84 kg

• Gotsha Tzitziashvily – 14th place

beat Melonin Noumonvi (France) 3:1

lost to Alexei Michine (Russia) 0:3

Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg

• Yasha Manasherov – 19th place

lost to Danil Khalimov (Kazakhstan) 0:8

lost to Alberto Jose Recuero (Spain) 1:3

Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg

• Yuri Yevseychyk – 19th place

lost to Mijail Lopez (Cuba) 0:5

lost to Yekta Yilmaz Gul (Turkey) 0:3

Officials

• President: Zvi Varshaviak
• Secretary General: Arie Rosenzweig