Israel at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Israel at the 2000 Summer Olympics
IOC code	ISR
NOC	Olympic Committee of Israel
Website	www.olympic.one.co.il (Hebrew) (English)
in Sydney
Competitors	39 (29 men and 10 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Rogel Nachum[1]
Medals Ranked 71st	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 0 1 1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Israel competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. 39 competitors, 29 men and 10 women, took part in 43 events in 9 sports.^[2] The delegation of 39 athletes was the biggest at the time, and third-biggest in history, after 2008 with 40 and 2016 with 47.^[3]

Medalists

Bronze

• Michael Kolganov — Canoeing, Men's K1 500m Kayak Singles

Results by event

Athletics

Event	Participant(s)	Round	Time	Result	Ref
Men's 100 m	Tommy Kafri	Round 1	10.43	Did not advance
Men's 200 m	Gidon Jablonka	Round 1	20.92	Did not advance
Men's 4 × 100 m	Kfir Golan Gidon Jablonka Tommy Kafri Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy Miki Bar Yehoshua (reserve)	Round 1	39.76	Did not advance
Men's Triple Jump	Rogel Nachum	Qualifying	16.39	Did not advance
Men's High Jump	Konstantin Matusevich	Qualifying	2.27	5th place
		Final	2.32
Men's Pole Vault	Aleksandr Averbukh	Qualifying	5.65	10th place
		Final	5.50
	Danny Krasnov	Qualifying	5.55	Did not advance

Canoeing

Style	Gender	Event	Participant	Round	Time	Result	Ref
Flatwater	Men's	Kayak Singles 500 m	Michael Kolganov	Qualifying Heat	1:40.275	Bronze Medal
				Semifinal	1:40.426
				Final	1:59.563
		Kayak Singles 1000 m	Michael Kolganov	Qualifying Heat	3:35.487	4th place
				Semifinal	3:37.439
				Final	3:35.099
		Kayak Doubles 500 m	Rami Zur Roei Yellin	Qualifying Heat	1:34.774	Did not advance
				Semifinal	1:34.241
		Kayak Doubles 1000 m	Rami Zur Roei Yellin	Qualifying Heat	3:20.913	Did not advance
				Semifinal	3:22.634
	Women's	Kayak Doubles 500 m	Lior Carmi Larissa Peisakhovitch	Qualifying Heat	1:48.647	Did not advance
				Semifinal	1:48.120

Fencing

Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Women's foil	Ayelet Ohayon

Judo

Arik Zeevi

Gender	Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Men's	Under 100 kg	Arik Ze'evi	5th place
	Under 73 kg	Gil Ofer
Women's	Under 57 kg	Orit Bar-On

Rhythmic gymnastics

Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Women's individual	Or Tokayev	14th place (Did not advance)

Sailing

Israel competed in four events in the Sailing venue at the 2000 Olympics. They had two top ten finishes, including 4th place in the women's 470.

Event	Participant(s)	Race	Result	Ref
Men's Mistral	Amit Inbar	Race 1 — 3 Race 2 — 13 Race 3 — (14) Race 4 — 13 Race 5 — 13 Race 6 — 5 Race 7 — (37) OCS Race 8 — 4 Race 9 — 13 Race 10 — 4 Race 11 — 11 Final — 79 (→ )	7th place
Men's Double Handed Dinghy (470)	Eldad Ronen and Eli Zukerman	Race 1 — 3 Race 2 — 12 Race 3 — 12 Race 4 — (30) DCS Race 5 — 19 Race 6 — 11 Race 7 — 10 Race 8 — 16 Race 9 — (23) Race 10 — 7 Race 11 — 9 Final — 99	13th place
Women's Mistral	Michal Hein	Race 1 — 11 Race 2 — 8 Race 3 — (21) Race 4 — 14 Race 5 — 14 Race 6 — (30) DSQ Race 7 — 11 Race 8 — 13 Race 9 — 18 Race 10 — 10 Race 11 — 16 Final — 11	14th place
Women's Double Handed Dinghy (470)	Anat Fabrikant and Shani Kedmi	Race 1 — 7 Race 2 — 12 Race 3 — 1 Race 4 — (15) Race 5 — 3 Race 6 — 5 Race 7 — 3 Race 8 — (14) Race 9 — 9 Race 10 — 2 Race 11 — 8 Final — 50	4th place

Shooting

Aleksandr Danilov

Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Men's air rifle	Aleksandr Danilov
Men's free rifle	Alexandr Danilov
Men's rifle prone	Guy Starik
Men's rifle 3 positions	Guy Starik

Swimming

Gender	Event	Participant	Round	Time	Result	Ref
Men's	50 m Freestyle	Yoav Bruck	Preliminary Heat	23.21	Did not advance
	100 m Freestyle	Yoav Bruck	Preliminary Heat	51.62	Did not advance
	100 m Butterfly	Yoav Meiri	Preliminary Heat	55.38	Did not advance
	200 m Butterfly	Michael Halika	Preliminary Heat	2:01.97	Did not advance
	100 m Breaststroke	Tal Stricker	Preliminary Heat	1:03.99	Did not advance
	200 m Breaststroke	Tal Stricker	Preliminary Heat	2:19.33	Did not advance
	100 m Backstroke	Eithan Urbach	Preliminary Heat	55.44	8th place
			Semi-final	55.31
			Final	55.74
	200 m Backstroke	Yoav Gath	Preliminary Heat	2:00.80	Did not advance
			Semi-final	2:03.80
	200 m Individual Medley	Michael Halika	Preliminary Heat	2:07.53	Did not advance
	400 m Individual Medley	Michael Halika	Preliminary Heat	4:19.97	Did not advance
	4 × 100 m Freestyle	Alexei Manziola Eithan Urbach Oren Azrad Yoav Bruck	Preliminary Heat	3:22.06	Did not advance
	4 × 100 m Medley	Eithan Urbach Tal Stricker Yoav Meiri Yoav Bruck	Preliminary Heat	3:43.39	Did not advance
Women's	400 m Freestyle	Adi Bichman	Preliminary Heat	4:27.33	Did not advance
	800 m Freestyle	Adi Bichman	Preliminary Heat	9:01.90	Did not advance
	100 m Butterfly	Vered Borochovski	Preliminary Heat	1:00.34	Did not advance
	200 m Individual Medley	Vered Borochovski	Preliminary Heat	2:18.99	Did not advance
	400 m Individual Medley	Adi Bichman	Preliminary Heat	5:06.72	Did not advance

Wrestling

Gender	Style	Event	Participant	Result	Ref
Men's	Greco-Roman Wrestling	Under-63 kg	Michael Beilin	15th place
		Under-85 kg	Gocha Tsitsiashvili	6th place
		Under-130 kg	Yuri Evseitchik	4th place

Notes

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site

References

1. Israel
2. "Israel at the 2000 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
3. "Sinai Says: With multiple medal contenders, Israeli Olympians primed for podium return". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 15 August 2016.