Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Israel will compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. This will be Israel's 14th participation in the summer Olympics.

As of November 18th, 20 Israeli sportspeople qualified to the Olympics in 5 sports.

Qualified athletes

Athletics

Men's Pole Vault:

• Aleksander Averbukh

Men's Marathon:

• Haile Satayin

Gymnastics

Men's Artistic All-around:

• Alexander Shatilov

Women's Rhythmic Individual:

• Irina Risenson

Women's Rhythmic team:

• Katerina Pisetsky
• Alena Dvornichenko
• Maria Savenkov
• Rahel Vigdorchick
• Veronika Vitenberg
• substitute: TBA

Sailing

Men's Neil Pryde RS:X:

• Shahar Tzuberi

Men's 470:

• Gideon Kliger and Udi Gal

Women's 470:

• Nike Kornecki and Vered Buskila

Women's Laser Radial:

• Nufar Edelman

Shooting

Men's 50 metre rifle prone:

• Gil Simkovich

Men's 50 metre 3 positions:

• Doron Egozi

Swimming

Men's 100 metre backstroke:

• Guy Barne'a

Men's 200 metre backstroke:

• Itay Chama