# Israel at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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.

## Disability classifications

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. 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.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Sport | Event | Date |
| Bronze | Moran Samuel | Rowing | Women's single sculls | 11 September |
| Bronze | Doron Shaziri | Shooting | Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1 | 12 September |
| Bronze | Inbal Pezaro | Swimming | 200m individual medley SM5 | 15 September |

## Athletics
### Men's Track and Road Events

| Athlete | Event | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank |
| Gad Yarkoni | Marathon T12 | DSQ | DSQ |

## Boccia

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.

### Individual

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank |
| Nadav Levi | Mixed individual BC2 | Desilva-Andrade (BER) W 3-2 | Sohn (KOR) L 2-5 | 2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

## Cycling

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.

### Road
#### Men

| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
| Koby Lion | Road Race H1 | 1:45:24 | 8 |
| Koby Lion | Time Trial H2 | 36:50.45 | 6 |

## Goalball

Israel's women enter the tournament ranked 10th in the world.
The following is the Israel roster in the women's goalball tournament of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Brazil (H) | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 7 | +18 | 9 | Quarter-finals |
| 2 | United States | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 13 | +12 | 9 | Quarter-finals |
| 3 | Japan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | +5 | 7 | Quarter-finals |
| 4 | Israel | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 15 | +1 | 4 | Quarter-finals |
| 5 | Algeria | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 37 | −36 | 0 | |
| 8 September 2016 14:30 | Japan | 1–1 | Israel | Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Alexander Knecht (GER), Vilma Basinkaite (LTU) |
| 8 September 2016 14:30 | Wakasugi 1 | Report | Mahamid 1 | Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Alexander Knecht (GER), Vilma Basinkaite (LTU) |
| 10 September 2016 18:45 | Israel | 10–0 (walkover) | Algeria |
| 12 September 2016 10:15 | Brazil | 7–2 | Israel | Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Yoshinori Nii (JPN), Raquel Aguado (ESP) |
| 12 September 2016 10:15 | Amorim 4 Custodio 3 | Report | Mahamid 2 | Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Yoshinori Nii (JPN), Raquel Aguado (ESP) |
| 13 September 2016 09:00 | Israel | 3–7 | United States | Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raquel Aguado (ESP), Dawna Christy (CAN) |
| 13 September 2016 09:00 | Ben-David 3 | Report | Miller 4 Czechowski 2 Dennis 1 | Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Raquel Aguado (ESP), Dawna Christy (CAN) |

### Quarter-final

| 14 September 2016 15:45 | Turkey | 15–5 | Israel | Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Dawna Christy (CAN), Raquel Aguado (ESP) |
| 14 September 2016 15:45 | Altunoluk 7 Özcan 4 Mercan 3 Ben-David 1 (o.g.) | Report | Ben-David 5 | Future Arena, Rio de Janeiro Referees: Dawna Christy (CAN), Raquel Aguado (ESP) |

## Paracanoe

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.
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Pascale Bercovitch | Women's KL2 | 1:01.713 | 3 SF | 1:02.251 | 3 FA | 1:01.131 | 8 |

## Rowing

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. 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.
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Heats | Repechage | Repechage | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | 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 | |
| Reuven Magnagey Yuliya Chernoy | Mixed Double Sculls | 4:20.62 | 5 R | 4:28.60 | 4 Final B | 4:21.23 | 3 Final B |

## Sailing

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. 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.
| Athlete | Event | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Race | Net points | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Net points | Rank |
| Moshe Zahavi Hagar Zahavi | SKUD 18 | DNF | 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 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 59 | 8 |

## Shooting

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.
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Qualification | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Score | Rank | Score | Rank |
| Doron Shaziri | Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions SH1 | 1153 | 4 Q | 437.5 | |
| Doron Shaziri | Mixed 50m Rifle Prone SH1 | 614.8 | 9 | did not advance | did not advance |

## Swimming

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.

### Men

| Athletes | Event | Heat | Heat | Final | Final |
| Athletes | Event | 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 | did not advance |
| Iyad Shalabi | 100m backstroke S2 | DSQ | DSQ | did not advance | did not advance |
| Iyad Shalabi | 200m freestyle S2 | 5:24.07 | 8 Q | 5:22.38 | 8 |
| Yoav Valinsky | 100m freestyle S6 | 1:14.59 | 15 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Yoav Valinsky | 100m backstroke S6 | 1:32.37 | 12 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Yoav Valinsky | 100m breaststroke SB6 | 1:34.36 | 10 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Yoav Valinsky | 200m individual medley SM6 | 2:57.68 | 6 Q | 2:59.08 | 7 |

### Women

| Athletes | Event | Heat | Heat | Final | Final |
| Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Inbal Pezaro | 50m freestyle S5 | 40.82 | 5 Q | 39.73 | 6 |
| Inbal Pezaro | 100m freestyle S5 | 1:24.38 | 3 Q | 1:24.04 | 5 |
| Inbal Pezaro | 200m freestyle S5 | 3:03.35 | 4 Q | 3:03.29 | 5 |
| Inbal Pezaro | 100m breaststroke SB4 | 1:57.28 | 4 Q | 2:01.02 | 6 |
| Inbal Pezaro | 200m individual medley SM5 | 3:37.62 | 2 Q | 3:38.20 | |
| Erel Halevi | 50m freestyle S7 | 38.41 | 11 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Erel Halevi | 100m freestyle S7 | 1:21.56 | 10 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Erel Halevi | 400m freestyle S7 | — | — | 5:51.05 | 8 |
| Yulia Gordiychuk | 100m freestyle S9 | 1:10.51 | 20 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Yulia Gordiychuk | 400m freestyle S9 | 5:13.02 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Yulia Gordiychuk | 200m individual medley SM9 | 2:57.22 | 19 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Veronika Guirenko | 50m backstroke S3 | 1:30.97 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance |
| Veronika Guirenko | 100m freestyle S3 | 2:59.28 | 13 | did not advance | did not advance |

### Mixed

| Athletes | Event | Heat | Heat | Final | Final |
| Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Inbal Pezaro Erel Halevi Iyad Shalabi Yoav Valinsky | 4 × 50m freestyle relay 20 pts | 3:10.00 | 7 Q | DSQ | DSQ |

## Table tennis
### Men's singles

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Shay Siada | Singles class 4 | Ozturk (TUR) L 0-3 | Guo (CHN) L 0-3 | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Danny Bobrov | Singles class 6 | Thainiyom (THA) L 0-3 | Jensen (DEN) L 1-3 | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |

### Women's singles

| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Preliminaries | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Chagit Brill | Singles class 1-2 | Rossi (ITA) L 0-3 | Bootwansirina (THA) L 1-3 | 3 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| Caroline Tabib | Singles class 5 | Abuawad (JOR) L 0-3 | Paredes Albor (MEX) W 3-1 | 2 Q | Gu (CHN) L 0-3 | did not advance | did not advance | 5 |

### Teams

| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Chagit Brill Caroline Tabib | Women's team class 4-5 | Altıntaş, Duman (TUR) L 0-2 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 9 |

## Wheelchair tennis

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.
| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final/BM | Rank |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Adam Berdichevsky | Men's Singles | Saida (JPN) L 1–6, 2-6 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 33 |
| Itai Erenlib | Quad Singles | — | — | Wagner (USA) L 4–6, 4-6 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 9 |
| Shraga Weinberg | Quad Singles | — | — | Alcott (AUS) L 0–6, 0-6 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | 9 |
| Itai Erenlib Shraga Weinberg | Quad Doubles | — | — | — | Oliveira, Silva (BRA) W 6–0, 6-0 | Taylor, Wagner (USA) L 4–6, 2-6 | Burdekin, Lapthorne (GBR) L 6–3, 4–6, 6-7$^{(2-7)}$ | 4 |