| Npc: | ISR |
| Npcname: | Israel Paralympic Committee |
| Games: | Summer Paralympics |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Location: | Rio de Janeiro |
| Competitors: | 33 |
| Sports: | 11 |
| Flagbearer: | Shraga Weinberg |
| Rank: | 74 |
| Gold: | 0 |
| Silver: | 0 |
| Bronze: | 3 |
| Appearances: | auto |
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.
See main article: article and 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]
See main article: article and Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
See main article: article and 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]
See main article: article and 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]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koby Lion | Road Race H1 | 1:45:24 | 8 |
| Time Trial H2 | 36:50.45 | 6 |
See main article: article and Goalball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Israel's women enter the tournament ranked 10th in the world.[8] ------------
See main article: article and 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.[9] [10]
See main article: article and 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.[11] [12] [13] 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.[13]
| 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 | [14] | |
| Reuven Magnagey Yuliya Chernoy | Mixed Double Sculls | 4:20.62 | 5 R | 4:28.60 | 4 Final B | 4:21.23 | 3 Final B | |
See main article: article and 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.[15] [16] [17] 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.[15] [17] [18]
| Athlete | Event | Race | Net points | Rank | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||
| Moshe Zahavi Hagar Zahavi | SKUD 18 | 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 | 5 | 4 | 59 | 8 | ||
See main article: article and 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.[19] [20] [21]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Rank | Score | Rank | ||
| Doron Shaziri | Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1 | 1153 | 4 Q | 437.5 | |
| Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 | 614.8 | 9 | did not advance | ||
See main article: article and 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.
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/ | Rank | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | ||||
| Shay Siada | Singles class 4 | L 0-3 | L 0-3 | 3 | did not advance | ||||
| Danny Bobrov | Singles class 6 | L 0-3 | L 1-3 | 3 | did not advance | ||||
| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/ | Rank | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | ||||
| Chagit Brill | Singles class 1-2 | L 0-3 | L 1-3 | 3 | did not advance | ||||
| Caroline Tabib | Singles class 5 | L 0-3 | W 3-1 | 2 Q | L 0-3 | did not advance | 5 | ||
See main article: article and 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.[22]
| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/ | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | |||
| Adam Berdichevsky | Men's Singles | L 1–6, 2-6 | did not advance | 33 | ||||
| Itai Erenlib | Quad Singles | L 4–6, 4-6 | did not advance | 9 | ||||
| Shraga Weinberg | Quad Singles | L 0–6, 0-6 | did not advance | 9 | ||||
| Itai Erenlib Shraga Weinberg | Quad Doubles | W 6–0, 6-0 | L 4–6, 2-6 | L 6–3, 4–6, 6-7(2-7) | 4 | |||