Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics

1984 Summer Olympics

The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984...

in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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, United States

United States

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. The nation returned to the Summer Games after participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics

American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics

The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was a part of a package of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan...

. 32 competitors, 24 men and 8 women, took part in 46 events in 11 sports.

Athletics

Men's 400 metres

• Mark Handelsman
  Mark Handelsman
  Mark Ian Handelsman is a retired Israeli middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.He was born in Gauteng in South Africa. He competed for Israel at the 1983 World Championships without progressing from the heats...
  
  
• Heat — 48.17 (→ did not advance)

Men's 800 metres

• Mark Handelsman
  Mark Handelsman
  Mark Ian Handelsman is a retired Israeli middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.He was born in Gauteng in South Africa. He competed for Israel at the 1983 World Championships without progressing from the heats...
  
  
• Heat — 1:47.90 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1500 metres

• Mark Handelsman
  Mark Handelsman
  Mark Ian Handelsman is a retired Israeli middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.He was born in Gauteng in South Africa. He competed for Israel at the 1983 World Championships without progressing from the heats...
  
  
• Heat — 3: 45.05 (→ did not advance)

Men's 5000 metres

• Arye Gamliel
• Heat — 14:02.98 (→ did not advance)

Men's 10000 metres

• Arye Gamliel
• Heat — 29:31.32 (→ did not advance)

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

• Yehuda Zadok
• Heat — 8:42.28 (→ did not advance)

Men's marathon

• Shem-Tov Sabag — 2:31:34 (→ 60th place)

Women's 100 metres

• Maya Ben-Tzur
• First Heat — 12.30s (→ did not advance)

Women's marathon

• Zehava Shmueli
  Zehava Shmueli
  Zehava Shmueli is a retired female long-distance runner from Israel. She competed for her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There she ended up in 30th place in the women's marathon. Shmueli set her personal best in the classic distance in...
  
  
• Final — 2:42:27 (→ 30th place)

Women's long jump

• Maya Bentzur
• Qualification — 6.07 m (→ did not advance, 16th place)

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48kg)

• Yehuda Ben Haim
• First Round — Defeated Michael Dankwa (GHA), 4:1
• Second Round — Lost to John Lyon
  John Lyon (boxer)
  John Patrick Lyon is a retired boxer from Great Britain. A member of the Greenall St. Helens Amateur Boxing Club he twice competed at the Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the men's flyweight division at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.-References:*...
  
   (GBR), 0:5

Men's Lightweight (– 60kg)

• Shlomo Niazov
• First Round — Lost to Dar Kamran (PAK), 0:5

Canoeing

Men's K-1 500 metres

• Aviram Mizrahi
  Aviram Mizrahi
  Aviram Mizrahi is an Israeli sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1980s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 500 m event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.-References:*...
  
  
• Heats — 2nd place, 1:53.66 (Qualified to semifinals)
• Semifinals — 4th place, 1:49.98 (did not advance)

Fencing

Four fencers, two men and two women, represented Israel in 1984.

Men's foil

Fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's foil

The men's foil was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics programme. It was the nineteenth appearance of the event. The competition was held from August 1 to 2 1984. 58 fencers from 26 nations competed.-Results:...

• Yitzhak Hatuel
  Yitzhak Hatuel
  Yitzhak Hatuel is an Israeli fencer. He competed in the individual foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.He is the brother of Israeli Olympic fencer Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman , and uncle of Israeli Olympic fencer Delila Hatuel and Israeli fencer Maor Hatuel.-References:...
  
  
• Shlomi Eyal
  Shlomi Eyal
  Shlomi Eyal is an Israeli fencer. He competed in the individual foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  

Women's foil

Fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's foil

The women's foil was one of eight fencing events on the fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twelfth appearance of the event. The competition was held from August 2 to 3, 1984. 42 fencers from 18 nations competed.-Results:...

• Nili Drori
  Nili Drori
  Nili Drori is an Israeli fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil events at the 1968 and 1984 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
  
• Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman
  Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman
  Lydia Hatuel-Zuckerman is an Israeli fencer. One of Israel's top female fencers, she competed in the foil event at the 1984, 1992, and 1996 Olympiads.-Family:...
  
  

Gymnastics

• Yohanan Moyal
• Ya'akov Levi
• Nancy Goldsmith
• Limor Fridman
• Liat Haninovitz

Sailing

• Yehuda Atedji
• Eldad Amir & Yoel Sela
• Shimshon Brokman & Eitan Fridlender

Shooting

• Gary Aramist
• Yair Davidovitz
• Itzhak Yonassi

Swimming

Men's 100m Breaststroke

• Eyal Shtigman
• Heat — 1:05.63 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke

• Eyal Shtigman
• Heat — 2:24.93 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

• Yoram Kochavy
• Heat — 2:04.08 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

• Yoram Kochavy
• Heat — 2:11.81 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

• Yoram Kochavy
• Heat — 4:35.70
• B-Final — 4:40.00 (→ 16th place)

Women's 200m Freestyle

• Hadar Rubinstein
• Heat — 2:12.17 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

Women's 400m Freestyle

• Hadar Rubinstein
• Heat — 4:34.95 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 800m Freestyle

• Hadar Rubinstein
• Heat — DNS (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Women's 200m Butterfly

• Hadar Rubinstein
• Heat — 2:22.78 (→ did not advance, 26th place)

External links

• Official Olympic Reports