Israel at the 1974 Asian Games

IOC code	ISR
NOC	Olympic Committee of Israel
in Tehran, Iran
Medals Ranked 6th	Gold 7 Silver 4 Bronze 8 Total 19
Asian Games appearances (overview)
1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974

Israel participated in the 1974 Asian Games held in Tehran, Iran from 1 September 1974 to 16 September 1974. This was the last appearance of Israel in Asian Games. Athletes from Israel won overall 19 medals, including seven gold, and finished sixth in a medal table.^[1]

In this Games, athletes from the Arab nations, as well as Iran, Pakistan, China, and North Korea – all of which refused to play with Israel; not in any of these 1974 Asian Games' events: tennis, fencing, basketball and football (soccer) – because of political reasons.^[2]

Expulsion after the Games

Two years after the Games, Asian Games Federation barred Israel from participating in the 1978 Asian Games. In July 1976 the 25 members of the Asian Games Federation were canvassed to see if Israel should participate in the 1978 Games, with all 12 responses received voting against including Israel.^[3]

The real reason is that the Federation has seven Arab countries and China and they want to expel us.

—President of the Israel Olympic Committee, Joseph Inbar^[4]

Medals


Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	4	1	1	6
Basketball	1	0	0	1
Fencing	0	0	1	1
Football	0	1	0	1
Swimming	1	0	1	2
Tennis	1	1	1	3
Weightlifting	0	1	4	5
Totals (7 entries)	7	4	8	19

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5000 m	Shivnath Singh India	14:20.50	Yuval Wischnitzer Israel	14:21.50	Kenichi Ozawa Japan	14:22.15

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Esther Roth Israel	11.90	He Zufen China	12.10	Keiko Yamada Japan	12.42
200 m	Esther Roth Israel	23.79	He Zufen China	24.41	Emiko Konishi Japan	24.94
1500 m	Song Meihua China	4:28.68	Yang Yanying China	4:29.17	Hana Shezifi Israel	4:31.00
100 m hurdles	Esther Roth Israel	13.31	Toshimi Hayashida Japan	14.28	Miyuki Iioka Japan	14.32
High jump	Orit Abramovitz Israel	1.78	Mikiko Sone Japan	1.78	Wu Fushan China	1.74

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1974 Asian Games

Preliminary round - group B

Standings

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Israel	1	1	0	122	73	+49	2
Philippines	1	0	1	73	122	−49	1

Games

September 2
8:30

Israel

122–73

Philippines

Aryamehr Basketball Hall, Tehran

Second Round - group B

Standings

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Israel	3	3	0	216	161	+57	6
South Korea	3	2	1	336	288	+48	5
Japan	3	1	2	287	293	−6	4
Pakistan	3	0	3	175	274	−99	2

Games

September 7
17:00

Israel	2–0	Pakistan
Walkover

Aryamehr Basketball Hall, Tehran

September 9
19:00

Israel	116–93	South Korea
Scoring by half: 59–50, 57–43

Aryamehr Basketball Hall, Tehran

September 12
18:30

Japan	68–100	Israel
Scoring by half: 37–41, 31–59

Aryamehr Basketball Hall, Tehran

Final round

Bracket

Semi-finals		Final

September 13

Israel	123
		September 15
Philippines	101
		Israel	92
September 13
		South Korea	85
China	114

South Korea (OT)	119
		Bronze medal game

		September 15

		Philippines	89

		China	102

Semi-finals

September 13
18:30

Israel	123–101	Philippines
Scoring by half: 62–45, 48–43

Aryamehr Basketball Hall, Tehran

Finals

September 15
15:30

Israel	92–85	South Korea
Scoring by half: 50–43, 42–42

Aryamehr Basketball Hall, Tehran

Roster

Coach: Abraham Hemo

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1974 Asian Games

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team foil details	Iran Maryam Achak Jila Almasi Giti Mohebban Mahvash Shafaei Maryam Shariatzadeh	Japan Hiroko Kamada	Israel Nurit Carmi Nili Drori Inbar Guy Orli Schreiber

Football

Main article: Football at the 1974 Asian Games

Preliminary round - group C

Standings

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Israel	3	3	0	0	17	3	+14	6
Malaysia	3	1	1	1	15	9	+6	3
Japan	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	3
Philippines	3	0	0	3	0	21	−21	0

Matches

3 September	Israel	8 – 3	Malaysia	Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
16:30	Onana 4', 18' Shalom Schwarz 10' Feigenbaum 39' Damti 48', 67', 89' Massuari 75'		Zawawi 61' (pen.) Ahmad 75', 80'	Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Kim Joo-Won (South Korea)

5 September	Israel	6 – 0	Philippines	Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
16:30	Schweizer 16', 42' Damti 24' Shum 31' Onana 41' Feigenbaum 90'			Attendance: 60,000 Referee: Reza Heidari (Iran)

7 September	Japan	0 – 3	Israel	Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
18:00			Feigenbaum 55', 63' Damti 86'	Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Davoud Heidari (Iran)

Second round - group B

Standings

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Israel	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	6
North Korea	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	3
Kuwait	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	2
Burma	3	0	1	2	4	10	−6	1

Matches

10 September	Israel	3 – 0	Burma	Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
18:00	Yehoshua Feigenbaum 31' Moshe Schweitzer 49' Gidi Damti 89'			Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Jafar Namdar (Iran)

12 September	Israel	2 – 0 Awarded	North Korea	Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
20:30

14 September	Israel	2 – 0 Awarded	Kuwait	Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
21:00

Finals

15 September	Israel	0 – 1	Iran	Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
19:30			Shum 30' (o.g.)	Attendance: 100,000 Referee: Mohammed Azam (India)

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1974 Asian Games

Air pistol

Rank	Athlete	Score
9	Dan Barkai (ISR)	359

Free pistol

Rank	Athlete	Score
8	Dan Barkai (ISR)	519

Air rifle

Rank	Athlete	Score
7	Zelig Shtroch (ISR)	368

Small bore rifle prone

Rank	Athlete	Score
5	Henry Hershkowitz (ISR)	585

Rank	Team	Score
5	Israel (ISR)	2316

Small bore rifle 3 positions

Rank	Athlete	Score
5	Zelig Shtroch (ISR)	1108

Rank	Team	Score
6	Israel (ISR)	4355

Small bore standard rifle 3 positions

Rank	Athlete	Score
6	Zelig Shtroch (ISR)	543

Rank	Team	Score
6	Israel (ISR)	2111

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1974 Asian Games

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Dan Brenner Israel	55.56	Lin Senlin China	55.91	Akira Iida Japan	56.31
200 m freestyle	Yukio Horiuchi Japan	2:01.68	Cho Oh-yun South Korea	2:01.97	Dan Brenner Israel	2:02.61

Men's results