Israel competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. They are scheduled to compete in sailing, cycling, shooting, and rowing.
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. 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.
Medalists Medal Name Sport Event Date Moran Samuel Rowing Women's single sculls Doron Shaziri Shooting Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1 Inbal Pezaro Swimming 200m individual medley SM5
Athletics
Men's Track and Road Events AthleteEventFinalResultRankGad YarkoniMarathon T12DSQ
Boccia
Israel qualified one boccia player for the mixed Individual BC2 into the Paralympic tournament. Nadav Levi claimed his Olympic spot as one of top 12 individual eligible boccia player in the BISFed 2016 World Rankings as of 30 April 2016. Boccia - Rio 2016 Paralympic Games , Official site of the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Individual AthleteEventPreliminariesRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal/RankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreNadav LeviMixed individual BC2W 3-2L 2-52did not advance
Cycling
With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Israel qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.
Road
Men AthleteEventTimeRankKoby LionRoad Race H11:45:248Time Trial H236:50.456
Goalball Israel's women enter the tournament ranked 10th in the world.
Quarter-final
Paracanoe
Israel earned a qualifying spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport following their performance at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Milan, Italy. Pascale Bercovitch who competed in 2008 in the sport of rowing and in 2012 in the sport of hand-cycling earned the spot for Israel. This marked the first time Israel sent a sprint canoeist to the Paralympics.
AthleteEventHeatsSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankPascale BercovitchWomen's KL21:01.7133 SF1:02.2513 FA1:01.1318
Rowing
One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top eight finish at the 2015 FISA World Rowing Championships in a medal event. Israel qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the AS Women's Single Sculls event with a first-place finish by Moran Samuel in a time of 05:25.920. They qualified a second boat in the TA Mixed Double Sculls event with an eighth-place finish by Tsofnat Levanon, Barak Hazor, Nissim Nir Mayo, Shay-Lee Shulmit Mizrachi and cox Danielle Renny Palatin in a time of 04:12.140. Samuel bases her training in Italy where she is coached by Paula Grizzetti. She also trains in Israel at the Daniel Rowing Center in Tel Aviv.
AthleteEventHeatsRepechageFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankMoran SamuelWomen's Single Sculls5:21.362 R5:22.961 Q5:17.46Reuven MagnageyYuliya ChernoyMixed Double Sculls4:20.625 R4:28.604 Final B4:21.233 Final B
Sailing
One pathway for qualifying for Rio involved having a boat have top seven finish at the 2015 Combined World Championships in a medal event where the country had nor already qualified through via the 2014 IFDS Sailing World Championships. Israel qualified for the 2016 Games under this criterion in the Sonar event with a fourth-place finish overall and the first country who had not qualified via the 2014 Championships. They qualified a second boat in the SKUD 18 event with a sixteenth-place finish overall and the sixth country who had not qualified via the 2014 Championships. The boat was crewed by Hagar Zahavi and Moshe Zahavi.
AthleteEventRaceNet pointsRank1234567891011Moshe ZahaviHagar ZahaviSKUD 18DNF9111010UFD10UFD10101010411Dror CohenArnon EfratiShimon Ben YakovSonar12441157251354598
Shooting
The first opportunity to qualify for shooting at the Rio Games took place at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships in Suhl. Shooters earned spots for their NPC. Israel earned a qualifying spot at this event in the R5 – 10m Air Rifle Mixed Prone SH2 event as a result of the performance Doron Shaziri. It was the only qualification spot Israel earned at the event.
AthleteEventQualificationFinalScoreRankScoreRankDoron ShaziriMen's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH111534 Q437.5Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1614.89did not advance
Swimming
Qualifiers for the latter rounds (Q) of all events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overall results versus competitors in all heats.
Men AthletesEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankItzhak Mamistvalov200m freestyle S25:20.437 Q5:09.967Iyad Shalabi50m backstroke S21:16.9711did not advance100m backstroke S2DSQdid not advance200m freestyle S25:24.078 Q5:22.388Yoav Valinsky100m freestyle S61:14.5915did not advance100m backstroke S61:32.3712did not advance100m breaststroke SB61:34.3610did not advance200m individual medley SM62:57.686 Q2:59.087
Women AthletesEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankInbal Pezaro50m freestyle S540.825 Q39.736100m freestyle S51:24.383 Q1:24.045200m freestyle S53:03.354 Q3:03.295100m breaststroke SB41:57.284 Q2:01.026200m individual medley SM53:37.622 Q3:38.20Erel Halevi50m freestyle S738.4111did not advance100m freestyle S71:21.5610did not advance400m freestyle S7colspan="2" 5:51.058Yulia Gordiychuk100m freestyle S91:10.5120did not advance400m freestyle S95:13.0213did not advance200m individual medley SM92:57.2219did not advanceVeronika Guirenko50m backstroke S31:30.9713did not advance100m freestyle S32:59.2813did not advance
Mixed AthletesEventHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankInbal PezaroErel HaleviIyad ShalabiYoav Valinsky4 × 50m freestyle relay 20 pts3:10.007 QDSQ
Table tennis
Men's singles AthleteEventPreliminariesQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal/RankOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultShay SiadaSingles class 4L 0-3L 0-33did not advanceDanny BobrovSingles class 6L 0-3L 1-33did not advance
Women's singles AthleteEventPreliminariesQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal/RankOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultChagit BrillSingles class 1-2L 0-3L 1-33did not advanceCaroline TabibSingles class 5L 0-3W 3-12 QL 0-3did not advance5
Teams AthleteEventRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal/RankOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultChagit BrillCaroline TabibWomen's team class 4-5L 0-2did not advance9
Wheelchair tennis Israel qualified one competitors in the men's single event, Adam Berdichevski. Israel earned two spots in the quad singles event, with the spots going to Itay Erenlib and Shraga Weinberg.
AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal/ RankOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultAdam BerdichevskyMen's SinglesL 1–6, 2-6did not advance33Itai ErenlibQuad Singlescolspan="2" L 4–6, 4-6did not advance9Shraga WeinbergQuad Singlescolspan="2" L 0–6, 0-6did not advance9Itai ErenlibShraga WeinbergQuad Doublescolspan="3" W 6–0, 6-0L 4–6, 2-6L 6–3, 4–6, 6-7(2-7)4
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