Israel competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. It was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics. The Olympic Committee of Israel confir
Yarden Gerbi, a judoka
Judoka Or Sasson after winning his bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Donald Sanford finishing 4th at the 400 meters dash in the 2012 European Athletics Championships
Lonah Chemtai Salpeter in the marathon event of the 2016 Summer Olympics
Sagi Muki
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Sagi Aharon Muki is a retired Israeli Olympic and former world champion half-middleweight judoka. Muki is the 2019 World Champion. He also won the 2015 and 2018 European championships. In the 2020 Tok
Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics
…press conference following the Olympics. Israel qualified seven judokas for the Games. Six of them (three per gender), including 2015 European champion Sagi Muki and London 2012 Olympian Golan Pollack, were ranked among the top 22 eligible judokas for men and top 14 for women in the International Judo Federation…
Muki in 2019
Sagi Muki, world champion, in 2019