Israel Sending Three Women and Three Men Swimmers to Rio Games

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The 2016 Olympic Team of Israel has been announced. Three women and three men will swim in Rio.

For the women, Amit Ivri is entered in the 100 breaststroke. She swam the 100 butterfly and 200 IM in London. She is joined by Andi Murez. The former Stanford Cardinal will swim the 50, 100, and 200 freestyles.

Zohar Shikler will complete the women’s roster with a 50 freestyle. At the 2015 World Championships she finished 47th in that event.

Yakov Tomarkin will swim the 100 and 200 backstrokes. At this spring’s European Championship the 24 year old took home a silver medal in the 200.

Gal Nevo will enter his third Olympic Games. The 29 year old will swim the 200 and 400 IMs. Four years ago, he made the semifinals of the 200 IM.

The third man on the team, Ziv Kalontarov will swim the 50 freestyle in Rio. He was the 2015 European Junior Champion in the event.

Special thanks to Dr. Buky Chass for contributing to this article.

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Bill Bell

7 years ago

Bet former Venice High ( CA.) and Stanford ” All American” Andi Murez will be first !A City swimmer to ever compete in ThevBig O’s.

Former NCAA champ ” Qristine Kuance” swam @. Granada Hills Hugh before going to USC but I am not sure if she was an Olympian or not.

Granada Hills High incidentally is same school that produced a certain quarterback who later attended Stanford, opted NOT to sign w/ the Yankees and went to NFL instead and had a pretty good career — if you count two Super Bowl rings as “pretty good.”

Now what was his name again?

Hint: he was once married to a pretty good swimmer!

Careful Observer

7 years ago

Reply to Bill Bell

I’m fairly certain Christine Quance won a gold medal in the ’96 Atlanta Olympic Games swimming the breaststroke leg in the 400 Medley relay prelims.

I also believe the quarterback mentioned wore #7 for Stanford and the Broncos, and Granada Hills HS may have named their stadium after him.

David Lederman

7 years ago

Arie Han Suwalski

Swimming Israel

7 years ago

Thank You Swimming World
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Mary-Anne Isabirye

7 years ago

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