page_title: Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics
section_title: Sailing
hierarchical_section_title: Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics / Sailing
caption_attribution_description: Shahar Zubari
context_page_description: 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 confirmed a team of 47 athletes, 22 men and 25 women, to compete across 17 sports at the Games. It was the nation's largest ever delegation sent to the Olympics, breaking its previous record of 43 athletes set in 2008. Among the sports represented by its athletes, Israel marked its Olympic debut in golf, mountain biking, and triathlon, as well as its return to road cycling, taekwondo, weightlifting, and wrestling after long years of absence. The nation's full roster also reached a historic milestone for Israeli women, as they officially outnumbered the men for the first time.
  The Israeli delegation featured 14 returning Olympians.
context_section_description: Israel entered six athletes into the sailing competition at the Olympics. For the RS:X class, Maayan Davidovich won the bronze medal at the women's event in the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships while Nimrod Mashiah finished eleventh place at the Men's event. Both of them secured a place for Israel in the Olympics. In April 2016, Davidovich and Shahar Tzuberi, Beijing 2008 bronze medalist, secured their spots on Israel’s Olympic delegation. Tzuberi defeated Mashiah in the battle for representing Israel at the Olympics. This was the third time Tzuberi participated at the Olympic Games and the second time for Davidovich. Davidovich finished ninth in the final race, taking 24 minutes and 46 seconds to complete her sail. Her overall ranking was seventh with 78 net points. Before the final race, she was ranked fifth with 60 net points. Tzuberi failed to qualify for the finals and finished seventeenth with 160 net points.
  At the 470 class, Dan Froyliche and Eyal Levin secured a place for the Games by managing to finish twenty-fourth in the men's event at the 2015 470 World Championships that took place in Haifa. Nina Amir and Gil Cohen first teamed up in March 2016. In their first competition together at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia, they finished in ninth place and secured a place on the Israeli sailing team for the Games. This was the second time Cohen represented Israel at the Olympics. The two teams failed to qualify for the finals. Amir and Cohen finished seventeenth with 120 net points. Froyliche and Levin finished twenty-first with 152 net points.
  Key
  M = Medal race
  EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race
  N/A = Round not applicable for the event
  DNF = Did not finish
  DSQ = Disqualified
caption: Shahar Tzuberi with the bronze medal from the 2008 Summer Olympics
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