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Jews in Sports: Israel at the 2012 Olympics

(Updated August 2012)

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Israel sent 37 athletes who competed in 8 different sports. It marked Israel's 15th participation in the Summer Olympics. No Israeli medaled.

Men

 

Women

Athletics-
    
400 meter Race: Donald Sanford
     Marathon: Zohar Zemiro

Badminton Singles: Misha Zilberman

Gymnastics-
     All-Around:
Felix Aronovich
     All-Around: Alexander Shatilov

Judo-
    60 kg:
Artium Arshanski
    66 kg: Golan Pollack
    73 kg: Ioseb Palelshvili
    100 kg: Ariel Ze’evi

Sailing-
     Neil Pryde RS:X:
Shahar Tzuberi
     470: Gideon Kliger & Eran Sela

Shooting-
    
10 meter Air Rifle,
     50 meter Rifle Prone:
Sergy Rikhter

Swimming-
    100 meter Breaststroke: Imri Ganiel
    200 meter Freestyle: Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or
    200 meter Individual Medley,
    200 meter Butterfly,
    400 meter Individual Medley:
Gal Nevo
    100 meter Backstroke,
    200 meter Backstroke:
Yakov-Yan Toumarkin

Tennis Doubles: Jonathan Erlich & Andy Ram

Pole Vault: Jillian Schwartz

Gymnastics:
     All-Around Artistic:
Valeria Maksyuta
     Individual Rythmic: Neta Rivkin
     Team Rythmic: Moran Buzovsky, Victoria Koshel, Noa Palathcy,
                                Marina Shultz, Paulina Zakaluzny, Eliora Zholkovski

Judo 63 kg: Alice Shlesinger

Sailing-
    Neil Pryde RS:X:
Lee Korzits
   470: Gil Cohen & Vered Buskila
   Laser Radial: Nufar Edelman

Swimming-
    100 meter Butterfly,
    200 meter Individual Medley:
Amit Ivry

Synchronized Swimming Duet: Anastasia Gloushkov & Inna Yoffe

Tennis Singles: Shahar Pe'er


Sources: Olympic Committee of Israel; Wikipedia