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Israel has competed at the Olympic Games as a nation since 1952. Its National Olympic Committee was formed in 1933, during the British Mandate of Palestine. [1] Israel has sent a team to each Summer Olympic Games since 1952 (except when it participated in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics), and to each Winter Olympic Games since 1994.
Team sports medals, such as in football or basketball count as one, even if there are multiple players on each team, who get a medal. Some tied performances have resulted in multiple medals of the same colour being awarded for an event. If this tie is for gold or silver, there will be a consequent absence of a silver or bronze medal for that event.
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In the event of a tie in the number of gold medals, the number of silver medals is taken into consideration, and then the number of bronze medals. If two countries have an equal number of gold, silver, and bronze medals, they are ordered in the table alphabetically by their IOC country code .
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In addition, two finals were held for one rowing event at the 1900 Olympics, men's coxed four. This was due to a controversy about which boats should advance to the final; thus two separate finals were held, awarding two sets of medals for the same event, both which are considered Olympic championships by the International Olympic Committee.
Eduard Alayev (אדוארד אלייב; also Ilyav or Elyav; born December 4, 1967) is an Israeli former Olympic sport shooter. [1] [2] He is Jewish, and was born in Russia. [3] [4] He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) tall and weighs 73 kg (161 lb). [4]
Olympian Michal Lamdani competed for Israel in the high jump, winning a gold medal. [21] [22] In tennis, Dutchman Tom Okker won both the men's singles and the mixed doubles gold medals. [23] American Mike Franks won a gold medal in doubles in tennis, and a silver medal in men's singles, losing to Okker.