Israel at the 2008 Summer Paralympics explained

Npc:	ISR
Npcname:	Israel Paralympic Committee
Games:	Summer Paralympics
Year:	2008
Location:	Beijing
Competitors:	42
Sports:	11
Flagbearer:	Yizhar Cohen
Rank:	53
Gold:	0
Silver:	5
Bronze:	1
Officials:	15
Appearances:	auto

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

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
			nowrap	Women's 100m Freestyle – S5 Women's 200m Freestyle – S5 Women's 100m Breaststroke – SB4	7th 9th 12th
			nowrap	Men's R7–50m Free Rifle 3x40 – SH1	10th
			Mixed Quad Doubles	13th
			Men's Single Sculls – A	11th

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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
nowrap	Day 10	16th	0	0	0	0
nowrap	Day 11	17th	0	0	0	0
Total		0	5	1	6

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Israel's squad included 1 athlete.

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Israel's squad included 1 athlete.

Basketball

See main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

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	L 53–76	4 Q	L 47–55	W 20–0	L 54–63	did not advance		6
	W 80–41
	W 73–60
	L 59–66
	L 67–82

Pool B

width=175	Team	width=20	Pts	width=20	Pld	width=20	W	width=20	D	width=20	L	width=20	PF	width=20	PA	width=25	PD
	9	5	4	0	1	346	291	55
	9	5	4	0	1	388	247	141
	9	5	4	0	1	334	271	63
	7	5	2	0	3	332	325	7
	6	5	1	0	4	291	358	-67
	5	5	0	0	5	203	402	-199

Qualified for quarterfinals

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

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

See main article: Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

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

See main article: Rowing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

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

• WB : World's best time
• Q : qualified for final
• R : qualified for repechage

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

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

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

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

See main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

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

See main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

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		W 3–0	W 3–1	L 0–3	L 2–3	did not advance	4
Liran Geva	Men's Individual Class 3	W 3–1	1 Q	L 0–3	did not advance				9–10
		W 3–1
David Altaraz	Men's Individual Class 9–10	L 2–3	3	did not advance					21–30
		L 0–3
Zeev Glikman	Men's Individual Class 8	W 3–1	2	did not advance					5–8
		L 2–3
		W 3–2
Shmuel Shur	Men's Individual Class 7	L 0–3	4	did not advance					13–16
		L 0–3
		L 1–3

Tennis

See main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

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	W 6–2 6–4	L 2–6 2–6	did not advance		5–8
Boaz Kramer	Mixed Quad Singles	N/A	L 3–6 3–6	did not advance			9–16
Ilanit Fridman	Women's Singles	W 6–4 6–0	L 1–6 3–6 6–4	did not advance			9–16
Shraga Weinberg Boaz Kramer	Mixed Quad Doubles	N/A		W 6–2 6–4	W 6–4 6–4	L 0–6 6–4 2–6

External links

• Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official Site
• International Paralympic Committee
• Israeli Paralympic Committee

Notes and References

1. http://en.paralympic.beijing2008.cn/news/others/n214587512.shtml "Israeli Paralympic Committee chief expects great Beijing Paralympics"