Israel competed 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.
The Games were originally scheduled to take place between 25 August and 6 September 2020, but were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They are still being called the 2020 Summer Paralympics, even with the change in scheduling to one year later.
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 Iyad Shalabi Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke S1 Mark Malyar Swimming Men's 200 m individual medley SM7 Mark Malyar Swimming Men's 400 m freestyle S7 Ami Omer Dadaon Swimming Men's 200 m freestyle S4 Iyad Shalabi Swimming Men's 50 metre backstroke S1 Ami Omer Dadaon Swimming Men's 50 m freestyle S4 Ami Omer Dadaon Swimming Men's 150 m individual medley SM4 Moran Samuel Rowing Woman's single sculls Mark Malyar Swimming Men's 100 m backstroke S7
Competitors
The Israeli delegation includes 33 athletes, competing in 11 sports.
SportMenWomenTotalAthletics 1 0 1Badminton 0 1 1Boccia 1 0 1Goalball 0 6 6Paracanoeing 0 1 1Powerlifting 0 1 1Rowing 3 4 7Shooting 1 1 2Swimming 5 3 8Table tennis 0 1 1Wheelchair tennis 4 0 4 Total 15 18 33
Athletics
Field events AthleteEventFinalDistancePositionOleksandr AliekseienkoMen's shot put F349.66 9
Badminton
Athlete Event Group Stage Quarterfinal Semifinal Final / OppositionScore OppositionScore OppositionScore Rank OppositionScore OppositionScore OppositionScore Rank Nina Gorogetzky Women's singles WH1 L (11–21, 12–21) L (4–21, 9–21) L (15–21, 10–21) 4 Did not advance 7
Boccia
Nadav Levi get a ticket for Israel in Individual BC2 events.
Individual AthleteEventPreliminariesQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal/RankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreNadav LeviMixed individual BC2W 8–0W 5–2L 0–102did not advance11
Goalball
Women's tournament The Israeli women team qualified for the Paralympic Gamess through the 2019 European Championships on 13 October 2019.
Group stage
Quarterfinal
Paracanoeing
Israel has qualified one athlete in Women's KL2 events. AthleteEventHeatsSemifinalFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankPascale BercovitchWomen's KL21:02.2915 SF1:00.3665 FB58.12310 Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); SF=semifinal
Powerlifting
AthleteEventTotal liftedRankPolina KatsmanWomen's +86 kg1237
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.
AthleteEventHeatsRepechageFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankShmulik DanielMen's single sculls10:22.903 R9:28.782 FA10:23.026Moran SamuelWomen's single sculls10:33.34 PB1 FA11:18.39Simona GorenAhijah KleinBarak HatzorMichal FeinblattMarlaina MillerMixed coxed four7:38.953 R7:09.592 FA7:51.426 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.
AthleteEventQualificationFinalScoreRankScoreRankDoron ShaziriMen's 50m rifle 3 positions SH1115010did not advanceMixed 50m rifle prone SH1613.521did not advanceYuliya Chernoy616.310did not advanceMixed 10m air rifle prone SH1631.814did not advance
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.
Israel won eight medals in swimming events, and for the first time in the Paralympics, Israeli swimmers won gold medals. Two golds and one bronze medal were won by Mark Malyar and he set two new world records, in the men’s 200-meter individual medley and the 400m freestyle S7. Iyad Shalabi, in his fourth appearance at the Paralympics, became the first Arab-Israeli to win a medal in the Olympics or Paralympics for Israel, winning two gold medals. Ami Omer Dadaon won three medals, two gold and one silver, and set a Paralympic record in the men’s 50-meter freestyle S4 category and a world record in the 200m freestyle S4.
Men Athlete Event Heats Final Result Rank Result Rank Ami Omer Dadaon 50m freestyle S4 38.42 2 Q 37.21 PR 50m backstroke S4 48.28 9 did not advance 100m freestyle S4 did not advance 150m individual medley SM4 2:33.92 2 Q 2:29.48 200m freestyle S4 2:56.66 1 Q 2:44.84 WR Bashar Halabi 100m breaststroke SB4 2:37.37 13 did not advance Ariel Malyar 50m freestyle S4 40.48 6 Q 41.70 7 50m backstroke S4 58.81 15 did not advance 100m freestyle S4 1:36.04 9 did not advance 200m freestyle S4 3:38.51 13 did not advance Mark Malyar 50m freestyle S7 28.57 5 Q 28.49 6 50m butterfly S7 33.90 12 did not advance 100m backstroke S7 1:11.92 4 Q 1:10.08 200m individual medley SM7 2:32.86 1 Q 2:29.01 WR 400m freestyle S7 4:41.82 PR 1 Q 4:31.06 WR Iyad Shalabi 50m backstroke S1 colspan=2 1:11.79 100m backstroke S1 colspan=2 2:28.04 150m individual medley SM3 4:52.88 WR 12 did not advance
Women Athletes Event Heat Final Time Rank Time Rank Yuliya Gordiychuk 100m butterfly S9 1:13.08 6 Q 1:13.35 7 200m individual medley SM9 2:52.48 12 did not advance 400m freestyle S9 4:58.40 10 did not advance Veronika Guirenko 50m backstroke S3 1:11.78 10 did not advance 50m breaststroke SB3 1:22.17 14 did not advance 100m freestyle S3 2:37.00 11 did not advance 150m individual medley SM4 4:32.00 16 did not advance Erel Halevi 100m freestyle S7 1:20.08 13 did not advance 100m backstroke S7 colspan=2 1:40.68 6 400m freestyle S7 colspan=2 5:44.97 7
Table tennis
Israel entered one athlete into the table tennis competition at the games by the Bipartite Commission Invitation.
Women AthleteEventGroup StageQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankCaroline TabibIndividual C5W 3–1L 0–33did 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 receiving bipartite commission invitation allocation quotas.
Men Athlete (seed)EventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / OppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankAdam BerdiczewskiMen's singlesL 0-2 (4-6, 2-6)did not advance33Guy SassonL 0-2 (1-6, 1-6)did not advance33Adam BerdiczewskiGuy SassonMen's doublesW 2-0 (6-1, 2-0)L 0-2 (1-6, 1-6)did not advance9Yossi SaadonQuad singlescolspan="2" rowspan="2" L 0-2 (1-6, 2-6)did not advance9Shraga WeinbergL 0-2 (0-6, 3-6)did not advance9Yossi SaadonShraga WeinbergQuad doublescolspan="3" L 0-2 (5-7, 2-6)did not advance5
See also Israel at the Paralympics Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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