Israel at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Israel at the Paralympic Games

Flag of Israel
IPC code  ISR
NPC Israel Sports Association for the Disabled
At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing
Competitors 42 in 11 sports
Officials 15
Flag bearer Yizhar Cohen
Medals
Rank: 53		 Gold
0		 Silver
5		 Bronze
1		 Total
6
Paralympic history (summary)
Summer Games

Israel sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. Israel sent 42 athletes, who competed in 11 sports: archery, athletics, basketball, cycling, equestrian, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis and tennis. The country's flagbearer during the Games' opening ceremony was Yizhar Cohen, who won three gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics.[1]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Silver
 Silver
 Silver 		Pezaro, InbalInbal Pezaro Swimming Women's 100m Freestyle – S5
Women's 200m Freestyle – S5
Women's 100m Breaststroke – SB4 		7th
9th
12th
 Silver Shaziri, DoronDoron Shaziri Shooting Men's R7–50m Free Rifle 3x40 – SH1 10th
 Silver Kramer, BoazBoaz Kramer
Weinberg, ShragaShraga Weinberg 		Tennis Mixed Quad Doubles 13th
 Bronze Nawi, EliEli Nawi Rowing Men's Single Sculls – A 11th
Medals by date
Day Date Total
Day 1 7th 0 1 0 1
Day 2 8th 0 0 0 0
Day 3 9th 0 1 0 1
Day 4 10th 0 1 0 1
Day 5 11th 0 0 1 1
Day 6 12th 0 1 0 1
Day 7 13th 0 1 0 1
Day 8 14th 0 0 0 0
Day 9 15th 0 0 0 0
Day 10 16th 0 0 0 0
Day 11 17th 0 0 0 0
Total 0 5 1 6

Archery

Israel's squad included 1 athlete.

Athlete Event Ranking round Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
Score Rank Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Rank
Amit Dror Men's Individual Recurve – W1/W2 557 23  Stone (USA)
L 88–92		 Did not advance

Athletics

Israel's squad included 1 athlete.

Athlete Events Final
Time Rank
Beza Nebeva Men's Marathon – T12 3:21:07 23

Basketball

Men
Squad list Group stage Quarterfinal Rank 5-8 Rank 5-6 Semifinal Final Rank
Opposition
Result		 Rank Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result
  • Allon Dor-On
  • David Drai
  • Lior Dror
  • Ron Furman
  • Shay Haim
  • Liran Hendel
  • Avraham Lehrman
  • Dotan Meishar
  • Ariel Ottolenghi
  • Rotem Philipps (C)
  • Roei Rosenberg
  • Eyal Sar-Tov
 United States
L 53–76		 4 Q Canada
L 47–55		 Iran
W 20–0		 Germany
L 54–63		 Did not advance 6
China
W 80–41
Brazil
W 73–60
Australia
L 59–66
Great Britain
L 67–82
Pool B
Team Pts Pld W D L PF PA PD
Australia 9540134629155
United States 95401388247141
Great Britain 9540133427163
Israel 752033323257
Brazil 65104291358-67
China 55005203402-199
     Qualified for quarterfinals

Cycling

Israel's squad included 1 athlete.

Athlete Event Time Rank
Nati Gruber Men's Individual Road Race – HC C Did not participate after he
was injured in a road accident
Men's Individual Time Trial – HC C

Equestrian

Equestrian in the Paralympic Games is Dressage only.

Athlete Horse Event Score Rank
Omer Ben-Dor Lennox Ind. Championship Test – Grade Ib 63.048 9
Ind. Freestyle Test – Grade Ib 61.501 13

Rowing

Athlete(s) Event Heats Repechage Final B Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank (Overall) Time Rank
Pascale Bercovitch Women's Single Sculls – A 6:12.32 4 R 7:06.20 4 7:02.43 2 (8) Did not advance
Eli Nawi Men's Single Sculls – A 5:25.06 2 R 5:49.30 2 Q N/A 5:26.03
Mari Kogan
Igor Kogan		 Mixed Double Sculls – TA 4:43.53 5 R 5:03.38 4 4:50.43 4 (10) Did not advance
Anastasia Dobrovolski
Shir Kalmanovitz
Reuven Magnagey
Andrew Zuhbaia
Cox: Genady Sapoznikov		 Mixed Coxed Four – LTA 3:58.75 6 R 4:13.39 5 4:15.43 6 (12) Did not advance

Sailing

Athlete(s) Event Race Score Rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Dror Cohen
Arnon Efrati
Benny Vexler		 Sonar – Three-Person Keelboat 3 15
(DSQ)		 4 15
(DSQ)		 2 6 6 12 1 1 3 38 5

Note: The points are totaled from the best 9 results of the 11 races, with lower totals being better.

Shooting

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Score Rank Score Rank
Doron Shaziri Men's R7–50m Free Rifle 3x40 – SH1 1,158 2 1,259.9
Mixed R6–50m Free Rifle Prone – SH1 586 10 Did not advance

Swimming

Athlete Events Heat Final
Time Rank Time Rank
Ziv Better Men's 100 m freestyle – S12 1:01.13 13 Did not advance
Men's 50 m freestyle – S12 27.35 11 Did not advance
Izhar Cohen Men's 100 m freestyle – S11 1:06.71 13 Did not advance
Men's 50 m freestyle – S11 28.66 12 Did not advance
Keren Leybovich Women's 100 m backstroke – S8 1.22.99 5 1:21.34 4
Lioz Amar Men's 100 m breaststroke – SB4 1:42.11 6 1:42.50 8
Inbal Pezaro Women's 100 m freestyle – S5 1:22.89 4 1:21.57
Women's 200 m freestyle – S5 2:53.94 1 2:49.51
Women's 100 m breaststroke – SB4 2:01.28 1 1:57.75
Women's 50 m freestyle – S6 38.54 4 38.69 4
Inbal Schwartz Women's 100 m backstroke – S6 1:48.14 12 Did not advance
Women's 50 m butterfly – S6 40.79 3 41.05 5
Iyad Shalabi Men's 200 m freestyle – S2 5:41.04 8 5:34.47 6
Men's 100 m freestyle – S2 2:38.80 8 2:37.66 8
Men's 50 m freestyle – S2 1:14.55 6 1:10.51 4
Men's 50 m backstroke – S2 1:13.28 5 1:10.88 4

Key: WR=World record; PR=Paralympic record

Table tennis

Athlete(s) Event Group matches Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Bronze medal match Finals Rank
Opposition
Result		 Rank Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result
Zeev Glikman
Shmuel Shur		 Men's Team
Class 6–8		 N/A South Africa
W 3–0		 Belgium
W 3–1		 China
L 0–3		 France
L 2–3		 Did not advance 4
Liran Geva Men's Individual
Class 3		  Egbinola (NGR)
W 3–1		 1 Q  Robin (FRA)
L 0–3		 Did not advance 9–10
 Kramminger (AUS)
W 3–1
David Altaraz Men's Individual
Class 9–10		  Kubov (UKR)
L 2–3		 3 Did not advance 21–30
 Ma (CHN)
L 0–3
Zeev Glikman Men's Individual
Class 8		  Kent (CAN)
W 3–1		 2 Did not advance 5–8
 Jambor (SVK)
L 2–3
 Ledoux (BEL)
W 3–2
Shmuel Shur Men's Individual
Class 7		  Popov (UKR)
L 0–3		 4 Did not advance 13–16
 Wollmert (SVK)
L 0–3
 Bayley (GBR)
L 1–3

Tennis

Athlete(s) Event Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals Rank
Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result		 Opposition
Result
Shraga Weinberg Mixed Quad Singles N/A  Burdekin (GBR)
W 6–2 6–4		  Wagner (USA)
L 2–6 2–6		 Did not advance 5–8
Boaz Kramer Mixed Quad Singles N/A  Taylor (USA)
L 3–6 3–6		 Did not advance 9–16
Ilanit Fridman Women's Singles  Ohmae (JPN)
W 6–4 6–0		  Hu (CHN)
L 1–6 3–6 6–4		 Did not advance 9–16
Shraga Weinberg
Boaz Kramer		 Mixed Quad Doubles N/A  Andersson,
Jansson (SWE)
W 6–2 6–4		  Burdekin,
Norfolk (GBR)
W 6–4 6–4		  Taylor,
Wagner (USA)
L 0–6 6–4 2–6

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Israeli Paralympic Committee chief expects great Beijing Paralympics", Xinhua, September 3, 2008