Israel at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Israel
games=1992 Summer
competitors=30 (25 men and 5 women)
sports=10
flagbearer=Eldad Amir
officials=
gold=0
silver=1
bronze=1
total=2
rank=48

Israel competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.Israel won its first ever Olympic medals at these Games. The first medallist in Israel's history was Yael Arad, who won silver on July 30th in judo's under-61 kg category for women, and she was followed a day later by another judoka, Oren Smadja, who won bronze in men's under-71 kg category.

Medalists

Silver

*Yael Arad — Judo, Women's Half-Middleweight

Bronze

*Oren Smadja — Judo, Men's Lightweight

Results by event

=Athletics=

Men's 400m Hurdles
*Aleksey Bazarov:* Heat – 50.33 sec (31st place, → did not advance)

Men's Triple Jump
*Rogel Nachum :* Qualification – 16.23 m (24th place, → did not advance)

Men's Javelin Throw
*Vadim Bavikin :* Qualification – 73.88 m (23rd place, → did not advance)

Men's Pole Vault
* Danny Krasnov:* Qualification – 5.60 m (→ advanced to final):* Final – 5.40 m (8th place)

=Fencing=

Women's Individual Foil:
*Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman – 23rd place

=Judo=

Women's Under-61 KG:
*Yael Arad – silver medal:*beat Begona Gomez Martin (flagIOC|ESP|1992 Summer):*beat Miroslava Janosikova (flagicon|CZE Czechoslovakia):*beat Frauke Eickoff (flagIOC|GER|1992 Summer):*lost in final to Catherine Fleury (flagIOC|FRA|1992 Summer)Men's Under-71 KG:
*Oren Smadja – bronze medal:*beat Taher Muhammed (flagIOC|DJI|1992 Summer):*beat Billy Gosack (flagIOC|GBR|1992 Summer):*lost to Chung Hoon (flagIOC|KOR|1992 Summer):*beat Massimo Sulli (flagIOC|ITA|1992 Summer):*beat Khaliun Boldbaatar (flagIOC|MGL|1992 Summer):*beat Stefan Dott (flagIOC|GER|1992 Summer)Men's Under-95 KG
*Simon Migrashvili:*lost to Guido Luigi (flagIOC|ITA|1992 Summer)Men's Under-60 KG:
*Amit Lang:*lost to Yoon Hyun (flagIOC|KOR|1992 Summer):*loat to Willis Bernardo Garcia (flagIOC|VEN|1992 Summer)

=Gymnastics=

Artistic Gymnastics

Men's all around:
*Ron Kaplan – 65th place

=Sailing=

Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)
*Amit Inbar:* Final Ranking — 118.1 points (→ 8th place)

Men's 470 Class
* Shai Bachar and Erez Shemesh – 9th place

Men's Flying Dutchman Class
* Yoel Sela and Eldad Amir – 20th place

=Shooting=

Men's Running Target
*Eduard Alayev – 564 points (15th place)Men's Rifle Prone
*Menachem Ilan – 590 points (39th place)Men's Rifle 3-Positions
*Menachem Ilan - 1132 points (41st place)Women's Sport Pistol
*Yelena Tripolski – 573 points (21st place)Women's Air Pistol
*Yelena Tripolski – 372 points (37th place)

=Swimming=

Men's 50m Freestyle
* Yoav Bruck:* Heat – 23.72 (→ did not advance, 32nd place)

Men's 100m Freestyle
* Yoav Bruck:* Heat – 51.46 (→ did not advance, 31st place)

Men's 100m Backstroke
* Eran Groumi:* Heat – 57.67 (→ did not advance, 28nd place)

Men's 200m Backstroke
* Eran Groumi:* Heat – 2:07.91 (→ did not advance, 37th place)

Men's 100m Butterfly
* Eran Groumi:* Heat – 55.18 (→ did not advance, 20th place, national record)

Women's 50m Freestyle
* Keren Ragal:* Heat – 27.93 (→ did not advance, 41st place)

Women's 100m Butterfly
* Timea Toth:* Heat – 1:03.18 (→ did not advance, 29th place, national record)

Women's 200m Butterfly
* Timea Toth:* Heat – 2:16.84 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 200m Individual Medley
* Keren Ragal:* Heat – 2:27.85 (→ did not advance, 37th place)

Women's 400m Individual Medley
* Keren Ragal:* Heat – 5:07.97 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

=Tennis=

Men's Singles Competition
* Gilad Bloom :* First round – Defeated Marian Vajda (Czechoslovakia) 7-6, 6-1, 6-0:* Second round – Lost to Jim Courier (United States) 2-6, 0-6, 0-6

=Weightlifting=

Men's Under 100 kg
* Andrei Denisov – 377.5 KG (6th place)Men's Under 60 KG:
*Reuven Hadinatov – 267.5 KG (15th place)Men's Under 75 kg
* Oleg Sadikhov – 332.5 KG (10th place)

=Wrestling=

Greco-Roman wrestling

Men's Under-48 KG
*Matwai Baranov:*lost to Stoyan Stoyanov (flagIOC|BUL|1992 Summer) 0:2:*lost to Rodney Smith (flagIOC|USA|1992 Summer) by fallMen's Under-62 KG
*Aleksander Davidovich:*lost to Sergei Martynov (flagIOC|EUN|1992 Summer) 1:8:*lost to Shigeki Nishiguchi (flagIOC|JPN|1992 Summer) 0:2Men's Under-48 KG
*Nik Zagranitchni – 12th place:*beat Omer Elmas (flagIOC|TUR|1992 Summer) 10:8:*lost to Mark Fuller (flagIOC|USA|1992 Summer) 1:2:*lost to Wilber Sanchez (flagIOC|CUB|1992 Summer) 0:4

Freestyle wrestling

Men's Under-68 KG
*Max Geller – 11th place:*beat Jesus Rodriguez (flagIOC|CUB|1992 Summer) 2:1:*lost to Fatih Ozbas (flagIOC|TUR|1992 Summer) 0:2:*drew with Endre Elekes (flagIOC|HUN|1992 Summer) 0:0