Israel at the 2015 European Games
IOC code	ISR
NOC	Olympic Committee of Israel
Website	www.olympicsil.co.il
inBaku,Azerbaijan
Competitors	134 in 20 sports
Flag bearers	Opening –Alexander Shatilov Closing –Ziv Kalontarov
Medals Ranked 22nd	Gold 2 Silver 4 Bronze 6 Total 12
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Israel competed at the2015 European Games, inBaku,Azerbaijan from 12 to 28 June 2015.^[1] The 2015 European Games represents Israel's largest ever delegation to a sports competition.^[2] Prior to the start of the event Israel planned to send 141 athletes to the games.^[2]

Winners of Olympic competitions such as triathlon, table tennis and shooting competitions will automatically qualify for the2016 Summer Olympics. Israel will also participate in three of the five non-Olympic events, including 3×3 basketball and the sambo.^[3]

Israel finished the games with 12 medals in total and 2 athletes qualifying for the2016 Summer Olympics.^[4]

International Sports Broadcasting (ISB) will be the host broadcaster of the European Games.^[5] During the Games, ISB will produce approximately 6 hours of coverage per day. In Israel the games were broadcast onSport 5 andSport 1.^[6]

At the closing of the games Israel had won twelve medals, two gold, four silver and six bronze,^[7] ranking them 22nd overall.^[8]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Sagi Muki	Judo	Men's 73 kg[9]	26 June
	Ziv Kaluntarov	Swimming	Men's 50 metre freestyle	27 June
Silver	Ilana Kratysh	Wrestling	Women's freestyle 69 kg[10]	15 June
	Yuval Filo Alona Koshevatskiy Ekaterrina Levina Karina Lykhvar Ida Mayrin	Rhythmic gymnastics	Women's group all-around[11]	17 June
			Women's group clubs and hoops[12]	21 June
	Or Sasson	Judo	Men's +100 kg	27 June
Bronze	Yarden Gerbi	Judo	Women's 63 kg[13]	15 June
	Sergey Richter	Shooting	Men's 10m Air Rifle[14]	16 June
	Yuval Filo Alona Koshevatskiy Ekaterrina Levina Karina Lykhvar Ida Mayrin	Rhythmic gymnastics	Women's group ribons[12]	21 June
	Neta Rivkin		Women's rhythmic individual hoop[12]
	Mixed team Haimro Alame Tomer Almogy Girmaw Amare Maya Aviezer Noa Barlia Etamar Bhastekar Amit Cohen Hai Cohen Aviv Dayan Olga Dogadgo Margaryta Dorozhon Alan Ferber Muket Fetene Dikla Goldenthal Amir Hamidulin Omri Harush Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko Dmitry Kroytor Shanie Landen Olga Lenskiy Itamar Levi Danna Levin Alexandra Lokshin Dariya Lokshin Anastasya Muchkayev Noam Neeman Imri Persiado Margareta Pogorelov Donald Sanford Maor Seged Maaya Shahaf Itay Shamir Azaunt Taka Maor Tiyouri Gilron Tsabkevich Diana Vaisman Kristina Vanyushev Tom Yakubov Evgenia Zabolotni Victor Zagynayko Efat Zelikovich	Athletics	Team Championships[15]	23 June
	Marc Hinawi	Swimming	Men's 1500m Freestyle[16]	24 June

The Israeli delegation included 134 athletes competing in 20 sports.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /BM		Ref
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Guy Matzkin	Men's individual	631	51	Mihalic L 2–6	Did not advance					33	[17]

In total Israel is sending 43 people to compete in Athletics competitions. This includes 23 men and 20 women.^[18]

At the conclusion of each event points were added to a nation's total based on the competitors placement. Points were combined to produce national team totals, and games medals were awarded to the top three nations. Medals were not awarded for individual events. At the conclusion of the 40 athletic events, Israel accumulated 430 total points, giving them the bronze medal.^[19]

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage(Group B)				Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Misha Zilberman	Singles	Rzayev (AZE) W 21–5, 21–3[60]	Maddaloni (ITA) W 21–12, 21–15[61]	Cali (MLT) W 21–3, 21–4[62]	1Q	Đurkinjak (CRO) L 21–13, 18–21, 11–21[63]	Did not advance			9

Basketball at the 2015 European games took place in the half-court3x3 format.^[64]

Women's groups

Men

All-Around

Apparatus

Women

All-Around

Israel has qualified two athletes after their performance at the2013 Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships.^[115]

Gender	Participant(s)	Style	Round	Score	Place	Result	Ref
Women's	Yuval Filo Alona Koshevatskiy Ekaterrina Levina Karina Lykhvar Ida Mayrin	Group – Ribbon	Qualifier	17.350	2nd place	Qualified
			Final	17.100	Bronze		[116]
		Group – Clubs & Hoops	Qualifier	17.700	2nd place	Qualified
			Final	17.500	Silver		[117]
		Group – All-Around	Final	35.050	Silver
	Neta Rivkin	Individual – Ribbon	Qualifier	18.050	5th place	Qualified	[118]
			Final	17.400	6th place		[119]
		Individual – Club	Qualifier	15.900	20th place	Did not qualify	[120]
		Individual – Ball	Qualifier	18.050	5th place	Qualified	[121]
			Final	17.950	5th place		[122]
		Individual – Hoop	Qualifier	17.800	8th place	Qualified	[123]
			Final	18.150	Bronze		[124]
		Individual – All-Around	Final	69.800	9th place		[125]
	Victoria Veinberg Filanovsky	Individual – Ribbon	Qualifier	17.300	12th place	Did not qualify	[118]
		Individual – Club	Qualifier	17.300	9th place	Reserve 1	[120]
		Individual – Ball	Qualifier	17.250	13th place	Did not qualify	[121]
		Individual – Hoop	Qualifier	17.700	10th place	Did not qualify	[123]
		Individual – All-Around	Final	69.550	10th place		[125]

Gender	Participant	Event	Round	Result	Place	Ref
Men's	Artiom Arshansky	60 kg	Round of 32	Won 0–100 0:09(IPP)		[126]
			Round of 16	Lost 0s1-0s3 5:00(PEN)		[127]
	Alon Rahima	60 kg	Round of 32	Lost 111s1-0 4:16 (IPP)		[128]
	Golan Pollack	66 kg	Round of 32	Won 10s3-1s2 5:00 (WAZ)		[129]
			Round of 16	Won 10s3-1s2 5:00 (WAZ)		[citation needed]
	Baruch Shmailov	66 kg	Round of 32	Won 0s1-1s2 5:00 (YUK)		[130]
			Round of 16	Lost 0s2-100s1 2:40 (IPP)		[131]
	Sagi Aharon Muki	73 kg	Round of 64	BYE		[132]
			Round of 32	Won 100–0 0:29 (IPP)		[133]
			Round of 16	Won 100-0s1 1:39 (IPP)		[134]
			Quarterfinals	Won 0s3-0s2 5:00(PEN)		[135]
			Semifinals	Won 0s2-100s1 1:47(IPP)		[136]
			Finals	Won 100s2-0s3 4:33 (IPP)	Gold	[137]
	Asaf Moshe Chen	81 kg	Round of 64	BYE		[138]
			Round of 32	Won 100s2-0s2		[139]
			Round of 16	Lost 0s1-2s3		[140]
	Alon Sasson	90 kg	Round of 64	BYE		[141]
			Round of 32	Lost 0s1-112s2 3:26 (IPP)		[142]
	Peter Paltchik	100 kg	Round of 32	Won 112-0s2 2:07 (IPP)		[143]
			Round of 16	Lost 0–100 1:13 (IPP)		[144]
	Or Sasson	+100 kg	Round of 32	Won 1s1-0s2 5:00 (YUK)		[145]
			Round of 16	Won 100s2-0s1 3:54 (IPP)		[146]
			Quarterfinals	Won 100s1-0 1:56 (IPP)		[147]
			Semifinals	Won 100a1-a 2:44 (IPP)		[148]
			Finals	Lost 0s1-100s2 2:40 (IPP)	Silver	[149]

Gender	Participant	Event	Round	Result	Place	Ref
Women's	Shira Rishony	48 kg	Round of 32	Lost 0-1s1 4:00 (YUK)		[150]
	Noa Minsker	48 kg	Round of 32	BYE		[151]
			Round of 16	Lost 0–100 1:53 (IPP)		[152]
	Gili Cohen	52 kg	Round of 32	BYE		[153]
			Round of 16	Lost 100s1-0s1 2:44 (IPP)		[154]
	Roni Schwartz	52 kg	Round of 32	Won 100–0 2:36 (IPP)		[155]
			Round of 16	Lost 1s1-101 3:13 (IPP)		[156]
	Camila Satie Zyman Minagawa	57 kg	Round of 32	Won 100–0 0:50 (IPP)		[157]
			Round of 16	Lost 0s1-1s1 4:00 (YUK)		[158]
	Yarden Gerbi	63 kg	Round of 32	BYE		[159]
			Round of 16	Won 0s1-0s3 4:00 (PEN)		[160]
			Quarterfinals	Won 1s2-0s2 4:00 (YUK)		[161]
			Semifinals	Lost 0s1-100 2:59 (IPP)		[162]
			Bronze medal Finals	Won 1s1-0 4:00(YUK)	Bronze	[163]
	Rotem Shor	63 kg	Round of 32	Lost 0s1-1s2 4:00(YUK)		[159]
	Lior Wildikan Samar	70 kg	Round of 32	Won 1-0s1 4:00(YUK)		[164]
			Round of 16	Lost 0-100s1 2:33 (IPP)		[165]
	Linda Bolder	70 kg	Round of 32	Lost 0-11s3 4:00 (WAZ)		[166]

Gender	Participant	Event	Round	Score	Place	Ref
Men's	Sergey Richter	10m Air Rifle	Qualification	628.7	Bronze	[168]
			Final	185.5
	Leor Ovadia Madlal	10m Air Rifle	Qualification	618.7	29th place	[168]
		50m Rifle Prone	Qualification	610.0	29th place	[169]
		50m Rifle 3 Positions	Qualification	1126	33rd place	[170]
	Guy Zeev Starik	50m Rifle Prone	Qualification	617.1	4th place	[169]
			Final	122.5	6th place	[171]
	Immanuel Yosef Ben Hefer	50m Rifle 3 Positions	Qualification	1138	25th place	[170]
	Alexei Kiriyevski	25m Rapid fire pistol	Qualification Stage 1	278	21st place	[172]
			Qualification Stage 2	563	17th place	[173]

On 24 June, Israeli swimmerMarc Hinawi became the first Israel to win a medal in swimming at the European games (8th overall), winning the bronze medal in 1,500 metre free style.^[174]

Gender	Participant	Event	Round	Time	Place	Ref
Men's	Marc Hinawi	400m Freestyle	Heat 6	3:56.61	15th place	[175]
		1500m Freestyle	Finals	15:25.63	Bronze	[176]
		800m Freestyle	Heat 2	8:07.30	6th place	[177]
	Kirill Baron	50m Butterfly	Heat 7	24.68	17th place	[178]
			Semifinals	24.39	9th place	[179]
		50m Breaststroke	Heat 1	30.42	38th place	[180]
		100m Butterfly	Heat 3	56.55	37th place	[181]
	Meiron Cheruti	50m Butterfly	Heat 6	24.59	11th place	[178]
			Semifinals	24.53	13th place	[179]
		100m Freestyle	Heat 3	53.22	52nd place	[182]
		100m Butterfly	Heat 2	57.02	42nd place	[181]
	Iliya Gladishev	200m Breaststroke	Heat 3	2:16.78	8th place	[183]
			Semifinals	Disqualified		[184]
		100m Breaststroke	Heat 4	1:03.09	9th place	[185]
			Semifinals	Disqualified		[186]
	Daniel Kaplan	100m Backstroke	Heat 3	58.67	37th place	[187]
		200m Backstroke	Heat 3	2:06.27	24th place	[188]
		50m Backstroke	Heat 5	27.91	37th place	[189]
	Idan Dotan	100m Backstroke	Heat 2	59.09	39th place	[187]
		50m Backstroke	Heat 3	26.89	23rd place	[189]
		50m Freestyle	Heat 4	24.06	43rd place	[190]
	Tomer Drori	100m Backstroke	Heat 2	59.27	42nd place	[187]
		200m Medley	Heat 2	2:11.29	39th place	[191]
		200m Backstroke	Heat 2	2:07.27	27th place	[188]
		400m Individual Medley	Heats	4:41.01	38th place	[192]
	Daniel Aizenberg	100m Backstroke	Heat 1	58.36	34th place	[187]
		100m Freestyle	Heat 2	53.85	56th place	[182]
		50m Backstroke	Heat 2	26.88	22nd place	[189]
		50m Freestyle	Heat 2	23.91	36th place	[190]
	Amir Haviv	50m Breaststroke	Heat 4	29.02	14th place	[180]
			Semifinals	28.79	12th place	[193]
		100m Breaststroke	Heat 4	1:04.33	21st place	[185]
	Ziv Kalontarov	100m Freestyle	Heat 6	50.69	4th place	[182]
			Semifinals	50.61	7th place	[194]
			Finals	50.33	6th place	[195]
		50m Freestyle	Heat 6	22:.62	1st place	[190]
			Semifinals	22.61	1st place	[196]
			Finals	22.16	Gold	[197]
	Mark Shperkin	100m Freestyle	Heat 4	51.40	23rd place	[182]
		50m Freestyle	Heat 5	23.60	23rd place	[190]
	Ziv Kalontarov Mark Shperkin Amir Haviv Idan Dotan	4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay	Heat 2	3:28.35	10th place	[198]
	Daniel Aizenberg Iliya Gladishev Kirill Baron Mark Shperkin	4 × 100 m Medley Relay	Heat 1	3:50.82	13th place	[199]
Women's	Or Tamir	50m Backstroke	Heats	30.24	18th place	[200]
		100m Backstroke	Heat 2	1:05.90	23rd place	[201]

Gender	Style	Event	Participant	Round	Result	Place	Ref
Men's	Greco-Roman wrestling	59 kg	Audrey Tsaryuk	Qualification	Lost 4–0
		98 kg	Robert Avanesyan	Qualification	Lost 3–0
	Freestyle	65 kg	Mark Popov	Qualification	Won 3–1		[206]
				1/8 Finals	Lost 3–1		[207]
		70 kg	Yuri Poliak	Qualification	BYE		[208]
				1/8 Finals	Lost 4–0		[209][210]
		74 kg	Hanoch Rachamin	1/8 Final	Lost 3–1		[211]
Women's	Freestyle	69 kg	Ilana Kratysh	Quarterfinals	Won 3–0	Silver
				Semifinals	Won 3–1
				Finals	Lost 3–1

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