Israel at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Israel at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	ISR
NPC	Israel Paralympic Committee
Website	www.isad.org.il
in Beijing
Competitors	42 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Yizhar Cohen
Officials	15
Medals Ranked 53rd	Gold 0 Silver 5 Bronze 1 Total 6
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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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[edit]

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Silver  Silver  Silver Inbal Pezaro Swimming Women's 100m Freestyle – S5 Women's 200m Freestyle – S5 Women's 100m Breaststroke – SB4 7th 9th 12th  Silver Doron Shaziri Shooting Men's R7–50m Free Rifle 3x40 – SH1 10th  Silver Boaz Kramer Shraga Weinberg Tennis Mixed Quad Doubles 13th  Bronze Eli 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[edit]

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[edit]

Israel's squad included 1 athlete.

Basketball[edit]

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	9	5	4	0	1	346	291	55
United States	9	5	4	0	1	388	247	141
Great Britain	9	5	4	0	1	334	271	63
Israel	7	5	2	0	3	332	325	7
Brazil	6	5	1	0	4	291	358	-67
China	5	5	0	0	5	203	402	-199

  Qualified for quarterfinals

Cycling[edit]

Israel's squad included 1 athlete.

Equestrian[edit]

Equestrian in the Paralympic Games is Dressage only.

Rowing[edit]

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[edit]

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

Shooting[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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