Israel at the
2016 Summer Paralympics
IPC codeISR
NPCIsrael Paralympic Committee
Websitewww.isad.org.il
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors33 in 11 sports
Flag bearer Shraga Weinberg
Medals
Ranked 74th
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
3
Total
3
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

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

Main article: Disability sport classification

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.[1][2] 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.[3]

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date
 Bronze Moran Samuel Rowing Women's single sculls 11 September
 Bronze Doron Shaziri Shooting Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1 12 September
 Bronze Inbal Pezaro Swimming 200m individual medley SM5 15 September

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Men's Track and Road Events
Athlete Event Final
Result Rank
Gad Yarkoni Marathon T12 DSQ

Boccia

Main article: Boccia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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. [4][5]

Individual
Athlete Event Preliminaries Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final/BM Rank
Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Rank Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score 		Opposition
Score
Nadav Levi Mixed individual BC2  Desilva-Andrade (BER)
W 3-2 		 Sohn (KOR)
L 2-5 		2 did not advance

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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.[6][7]

Road

Men
Athlete Event Time Rank
Koby Lion Road Race H1 1:45:24 8
Time Trial H2 36:50.45 6

Goalball

Main article: Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Israel's women enter the tournament ranked 10th in the world.[8]

The following is the Israel roster in the women's goalball tournament of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[9]

No. Player Class Date of birth (age)
1 Elham Mahamid B3 (1990-02-16)16 February 1990 (aged 26)
2 Yarden Adika B3 (1999-07-14)14 July 1999 (aged 17)
3 Gal Hamrani B1 (1992-12-01)1 December 1992 (aged 23)
5 Roni Ohayon B2 (1999-03-08)8 March 1999 (aged 17)
6 Lihi Ben-David B1 (1995-12-08)8 December 1995 (aged 20)
9 Sivan Abravaya B2 (1990-08-13)13 August 1990 (aged 26)
Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Brazil (H) 4 3 0 1 25 7 +18 9 Quarter-finals
2  United States 4 3 0 1 25 13 +12 9
3  Japan 4 2 1 1 13 8 +5 7
4  Israel 4 1 1 2 16 15 +1 4
5  Algeria 4 0 0 4 1 37 −36 0
Source: Paralympic.org
(H) Hosts
8 September 2016
14:30 		Japan  1–1  Israel Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro
Referees: Alexander Knecht (GER), Vilma Basinkaite (LTU)
Wakasugi 1 Report Mahamid 1
10 September 2016
18:45 		Israel  10–0
(walkover) 		 Algeria
12 September 2016
10:15 		Brazil  7–2  Israel Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro
Referees: Yoshinori Nii (JPN), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
Amorim 4
Custodio 3 		Report Mahamid 2
13 September 2016
09:00 		Israel  3–7  United States Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro
Referees: Raquel Aguado (ESP), Dawna Christy (CAN)
Ben-David 3 Report Miller 4
Czechowski 2
Dennis 1
Quarter-final
14 September 2016
15:45 		Turkey  15–5  Israel Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro
Referees: Dawna Christy (CAN), Raquel Aguado (ESP)
Altunoluk 7
Özcan 4
Mercan 3
Ben-David 1 (o.g.) 		Report Ben-David 5

Paracanoe

Main article: Paracanoeing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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.[10][11]

Athlete Event Heats Semifinal Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Pascale Bercovitch Women's KL2 1:01.713 3 SF 1:02.251 3 FA 1:01.131 8

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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.[12][13][14] 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.[14]

Athlete Event Heats Repechage Final
Time Rank Time Rank Time Rank
Moran Samuel Women's Single Sculls 5:21.36 2 R 5:22.96 1 Q 5:17.46 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)[15]
Reuven Magnagey
Yuliya Chernoy 		Mixed Double Sculls 4:20.62 5 R 4:28.60 4 Final B 4:21.23 3 Final B

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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.[16][17][18] 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.[16][18][19]

Athlete Event Race Net points Rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Moshe Zahavi
Hagar Zahavi 		SKUD 18 DNF 9 11 10 10 UFD 10 UFD 10 10 10 104 11
Dror Cohen
Arnon Efrati
Shimon Ben Yakov 		Sonar 12 4 4 11 5 7 2 5 13 5 4 59 8

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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.[20][21][22]

Athlete Event Qualification Final
Score Rank Score Rank
Doron Shaziri Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1 1153 4 Q 437.5 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 614.8 9 did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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
Athletes Event Heat Final
Time Rank Time Rank
Itzhak Mamistvalov 200m freestyle S2 5:20.43 7 Q 5:09.96 7
Iyad Shalabi 50m backstroke S2 1:16.97 11 did not advance
100m backstroke S2 DSQ did not advance
200m freestyle S2 5:24.07 8 Q 5:22.38 8
Yoav Valinsky 100m freestyle S6 1:14.59 15 did not advance
100m backstroke S6 1:32.37 12 did not advance
100m breaststroke SB6 1:34.36 10 did not advance
200m individual medley SM6 2:57.68 6 Q 2:59.08 7
Women
Athletes Event Heat Final
Time Rank Time Rank
Inbal Pezaro 50m freestyle S5 40.82 5 Q 39.73 6
100m freestyle S5 1:24.38 3 Q 1:24.04 5
200m freestyle S5 3:03.35 4 Q 3:03.29 5
100m breaststroke SB4 1:57.28 4 Q 2:01.02 6
200m individual medley SM5 3:37.62 2 Q 3:38.20 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Erel Halevi 50m freestyle S7 38.41 11 did not advance
100m freestyle S7 1:21.56 10 did not advance
400m freestyle S7 — 5:51.05 8
Yulia Gordiychuk 100m freestyle S9 1:10.51 20 did not advance
400m freestyle S9 5:13.02 13 did not advance
200m individual medley SM9 2:57.22 19 did not advance
Veronika Guirenko 50m backstroke S3 1:30.97 13 did not advance
100m freestyle S3 2:59.28 13 did not advance
Mixed
Athletes Event Heat Final
Time Rank Time Rank
Inbal Pezaro
Erel Halevi
Iyad Shalabi
Yoav Valinsky 		4 × 50m freestyle relay 20 pts 3:10.00 7 Q DSQ

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Men's singles
Athlete Event Preliminaries Quarterfinals Semifinals Final/BM Rank
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result
Shay Siada Singles class 4  Ozturk (TUR)
L 0-3 		 Guo (CHN)
L 0-3 		3 did not advance
Danny Bobrov Singles class 6  Thainiyom (THA)
L 0-3 		 Jensen (DEN)
L 1-3 		3 did not advance
Women's singles
Athlete Event Preliminaries Quarterfinals Semifinals Final/BM Rank
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Rank Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result
Chagit Brill Singles class 1-2  Rossi (ITA)
L 0-3 		 Bootwansirina (THA)
L 1-3 		3 did not advance
Caroline Tabib Singles class 5  Abuawad (JOR)
L 0-3 		 Paredes Albor (MEX)
W 3-1 		2 Q  Gu (CHN)
L 0-3 		did not advance 5
Teams
Athlete Event Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final/BM Rank
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result
Chagit Brill
Caroline Tabib 		Women's team class 4-5  Altıntaş,
Duman (TUR)
L 0-2 		did not advance 9

Wheelchair tennis

Main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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.[23]

Athlete Event Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final/BM Rank
Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result 		Opposition
Result
Adam Berdichevsky Men's Singles  Saida (JPN)
L 1–6, 2-6 		did not advance 33
Itai Erenlib Quad Singles —  Wagner (USA)
L 4–6, 4-6 		did not advance 9
Shraga Weinberg Quad Singles —  Alcott (AUS)
L 0–6, 0-6 		did not advance 9
Itai Erenlib
Shraga Weinberg 		Quad Doubles —  Oliveira,
Silva (BRA)
W 6–0, 6-0 		 Taylor,
Wagner (USA)
L 4–6, 2-6 		 Burdekin,
Lapthorne (GBR)
L 6–3, 4–6, 6-7(2-7) 		4

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