Israel sent a delegation to compete at the
2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ...
in
Beijing. Israel sent 42 athletes, who competed in 11 sports: archery, athletics, basketball, cycling, equestrian, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis and tennis. The country's flagbearer during the Games' opening ceremony was
Yizhar Cohen
Izhar Cohen ( he, יזהר כהן; born March 13, 1951) is an Israeli singer who won the 1978 Eurovision Song Contest.
Biography
Izhar Cohen was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and raised in Givatayim, to a family of singers of Yemenite-Jewish desc ...
, who won three gold medals at the
1988 Seoul Paralympics.
"Israeli Paralympic Committee chief expects great Beijing Paralympics"
, Xinhua, September 3, 2008
Medalists
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Archery
Israel's squad included 1 athlete.
Athletics
Israel's squad included 1 athlete.
Basketball
;Men
;Pool B
: Qualified for quarterfinals
Cycling
Israel's squad included 1 athlete.
Equestrian
Equestrian in the Paralympic Games is Dressage
Dressage ( or ; a French term, most commonly translated to mean "training") is a form of horse riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an art sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery. As an equestrian sport defined b ...
only.
Rowing
*WB : World's best time
*Q : qualified for final
*R : qualified for repechage
Sailing
Note: The points are totaled from the best 9 results of the 11 races, with lower totals being better.
Shooting
Swimming
Key: WR= World record; PR=Paralympic record Paralympic records are the best performances in a specific event in that event's history in either the Summer Paralympic Games or the Winter Paralympic Games. As each type of Paralympic Games occur only once every four years many of these records d ...
Table tennis
Tennis
References
External links
Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official SiteInternational Paralympic CommitteeIsraeli Paralympic Committee
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Nations at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
2008
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Paralympics
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...