Israel at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Israel at the
2020 Summer Paralympics
Israel at the; 2020 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	ISR
NPC	Israel Paralympic Committee
Website	www.isad.org.il
in Tokyo
Competitors	33 (15 men and 18 women) in 11 sports
Flag bearers	Nadav Levi; Moran Samuel
Medals	Gold 2 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 3
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Israel is competing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo from 24 August to 5 September 2021.The delegation includes 33 athletes – 18 women and 15 men – competing in 11 sports: athletics, badminton, boccia, goalball, paracanoeing, powerlifting, rowing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, and wheelchair tennis.^[1]

The Games were originally scheduled to take place between 25 August and 6 September 2020, but were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2] They are still being called the 2020 Summer Paralympics, even with the change in scheduling to one year later.^[3]

Disability classifications

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.^[4]^[5] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.^[6]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Iyad Shalabi	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke S1	25 August
Gold	Mark Malyar	Swimming	Men's 200 m individual medley SM7	27 August
Silver	Ami Omer Dadaon	Swimming	Men's 150 m individual medley SM4	28 August

Competitors

The Israeli delegation includes 33 athletes, competing in 11 sports.^[7]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	1	0	1
Badminton	0	1	1
Boccia	1	0	1
Goalball	0	6	6
Paracanoeing	0	1	1
Powerlifting	0	1	1
Rowing	3	4	7
Shooting	1	1	2
Swimming	5	3	8
Table tennis	0	1	1
Wheelchair tennis	4	0	4
Total	15	18	33

Athletics

Field events

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position
Oleksandr Aliekseienko	Men's shot put F34
Oleksandr Aliekseienko	Men's javelin throw F34

Badminton

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nina Gorogetzky	Women's singles WH1	Pookkham (THA) ( , )	Zhang (CHN) ( , )	Mathez (SUI) ( , )

Boccia

Nadav Levi get a ticket for Israel in Individual BC2 events.^[8]

Individual

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final/BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Nadav Levi	Mixed individual BC2	de Faria (BRA) W 8–0	Fernandes (POR)	Vongsa (THA)

Goalball

Women's tournament

The Israeli women team qualified for the Paralympic Gamess through the 2019 European Championships on 13 October 2019.^[9]

Group stage

Template:2020 Summer Paralympics women's goalball group C standings Template:2020 Summer Paralympics women's goalball game C2 Template:2020 Summer Paralympics women's goalball game C4 Template:2020 Summer Paralympics women's goalball game C7 Template:2020 Summer Paralympics women's goalball game C8

Paracanoeing

Israel has qualified one athlete in Women's KL2 events.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Pascale Bercovitch	Women's KL2

Powerlifting

Athlete	Event	Total lifted	Rank
Polina Katsman	Women's +86 kg

Rowing

Israel qualified three boats for each of the following rowing classes into the Paralympic regatta. All of them qualified after successfully entering the top seven for men's and women's single sculls and top eight for mixed coxed four at the 2019 World Rowing Championships in Ottensheim, Austria.^[10]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Shmulik Daniel	Men's single sculls	10:22.90	3 R	9:28.78	2 FA
Moran Samuel	Women's single sculls	REL		10:33.34 PB	1 FA
Simona Goren Ahijah Klein Barak Hatzor Michal Feinblatt Marlaina Miller	Mixed coxed four	7:38.95	3 R	7:09.59	2 FA

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); R=Repechage

Shooting

Israel paralympic shooter, Doron Shaziri earned a quate for Israel after he won a silver medal in the R7 - Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions event at the 2018 World Shooting Para Sport World Cup. Yuliya Chernoy earned a quate for Israel after she won a bronze medal in the R6 - Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 event at the 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships.^[11]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Doron Shaziri	Men's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1
Doron Shaziri	Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1
Yuliya Chernoy	Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1
Yuliya Chernoy	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1

Swimming

Israel have qualified two quota in Swimming at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships after Mark Malyar won a gold medal at the 400 meter freestyle swim in the S7 disability class and set a new world record (4:33 minutes) and Ami Omer Dadaon won a silver medal. Israel qualified another six quota after achieving the MQS.^[12]^[13]^[14]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ami Omer Dadaon	50m freestyle S4
	50m backstroke S4
	100m freestyle S4	DSQ		Did not advance
	150m individual medley SM4	2:33.92	2 Q	2:29.48
	200m freestyle S4
Bashar Halabi	100m breaststroke SB4
Ariek Malyar	50m freestyle S4
	50m backstroke S4
	100m freestyle S4	1:36.04	9	Did not advance
	200m freestyle S4
Mark Malyar	50m freestyle S7
	50m butterfly S7
	100m backstroke S7
	200m individual medley SM7	2:32.86	1 Q	2:29.01 WR
	400m freestyle S7
Iyad Shalabi	50m backstroke S1	—
	100m backstroke S1	—		2:28.04
	150m individual medley SM3	4:52.88 WR^[a]	12	Did not advance

Notes:

^ The world record is for the SM1 classification

Women

Athletes	Event	Heat		Final
Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Yulia Gordiychuk	100m butterfly S9
	200m individual medley SM9
	400m freestyle S9	4:58.40	10	Did not advance
Veronika Guirenko	50m backstroke S3
	50m breaststroke SB3
	100m freestyle S3
	150m individual medley SM4	4:32.00	16	Did not advance
Erel Halevi	100m freestyle S7
	100m backstroke S7	—
	400m freestyle S7

Table tennis

Israel entered one athlete into the table tennis competition at the games by the Bipartite Commission Invitation.

Women

Athlete	Event	Group Stage			Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Caroline Tabib	Individual C5	Abuawad (JOR) W 3–1	Sringam (THA) L 0–3	3	Did not advance

Wheelchair tennis

Israel qualified four players entries for wheelchair tennis. Two of them qualified by the world rankings, while two of them qualified by received the bipartite commision invitation allocation quotas.

Men

Athlete (seed)	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete (seed)	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Adam Berdiczewski	Men's singles	Weekes (AUS) L 0-2 (4-6, 2-6)	Did not advance					33
Guy Sasson	Men's singles	Arai (JPN) L 0-2 (1-6, 1-6)	Did not advance					33
Adam Berdiczewski Guy Sasson	Men's doubles	—	Medeiros / Pommê (BRA) W 2-0 (6-1, 2-0)	Egberink / Scheffers (NED) ( , )
Yossi Saadon	Quad singles	—		Schröder (NED) L 0-2 (1-6, 2-6)	Did not advance			9
Shraga Weinberg	Quad singles	—		Vink (NED) L 0-2 (0-6, 3-6)	Did not advance			9
Yossi Saadon Shraga Weinberg	Quad doubles	—			Moroishi / Sugeno (JPN) L 0-2 (5-7, 2-6)	Did not advance		5

References

^ Leichman, Abigail Klein; Klug, Lisa (2021-07-11). "11 things to know as Israel gears up for Tokyo Olympics". ISRAEL21c. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". Olympics. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
^ "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". olympic.org. 2020-03-24. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
^ "Paralympics categories explained". ABC. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
^ "Making sense of the categories". BBC Sport. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
^ "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
^ Spiro, Amy; Gross (2021-08-19). "Rowing, shooting, wheelchair tennis: Israel sets its sights on the Paralympics". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2021-08-24.
^ "Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Qualification Guide" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
^ "Hosts Germany reach finals as Israel and Ukraine qualify for Tokyo 2020". International Blind Sports Federation. 13 October 2019.
^ "2019 World Rowing Championships". www.worldrowing.com. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
^ "2020 Summer Paralympics Qualification Guide" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 17 November 2020.
^ Leichman, Abigail Klein (17 September 2019). "Israeli Paralympic swimmer sets world record, wins gold". israel21c. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
^ "Medallists by Event" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 15 September 2019.
^ "World Championships Slot Allocation Method" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 14 October 2019.

[15] The world record is for the SM1 classification

[1] Leichman, Abigail Klein; Klug, Lisa (2021-07-11). "11 things to know as Israel gears up for Tokyo Olympics". ISRAEL21c. Retrieved 2021-08-01.

[2] "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". Olympics. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.

[3] "Joint Statement from the International Olympic Committee and the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee". olympic.org. 2020-03-24. Retrieved 2020-03-24.

[class1-4] "Paralympics categories explained". ABC. 3 September 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.

[class2-5] "Making sense of the categories". BBC Sport. 6 October 2000. Retrieved 25 December 2015.

[class3-6] "A-Z of Paralympic classification". BBC Sport. 28 August 2008. Retrieved 25 December 2015.

[7] Spiro, Amy; Gross (2021-08-19). "Rowing, shooting, wheelchair tennis: Israel sets its sights on the Paralympics". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 2021-08-24.

[8] "Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Qualification Guide" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2020.

[9] "Hosts Germany reach finals as Israel and Ukraine qualify for Tokyo 2020". International Blind Sports Federation. 13 October 2019.

[10] "2019 World Rowing Championships". www.worldrowing.com. 15 October 2018. Retrieved 9 August 2021.

[11] "2020 Summer Paralympics Qualification Guide" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 17 November 2020.

[12] Leichman, Abigail Klein (17 September 2019). "Israeli Paralympic swimmer sets world record, wins gold". israel21c. Retrieved 18 October 2019.

[13] "Medallists by Event" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 15 September 2019.

[14] "World Championships Slot Allocation Method" (PDF). International Paralympic Committee. 14 October 2019.

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