Shelly Bobritsky (שלי בובריצקי; born 27 June 2001) is an

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Olympic swimmer who competes in Artistic swimming. She competed in the

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in duet, was the European Champion in the free combination event in 2023, and was a three-time European medalist as well as a two-time European Cup bronze medalist. Bobritsky is representing Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in artistic swimming-duet with Ariel Nassee at the

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on August 9 and 10, 2024.

Early life

Bobritsky was born in and lives in

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, Israel. She is the eldest daughter in a family of three children, with a brother Nir and a younger sister Michal. She graduated high school with majors in chemistry and communication.

Artistic swimming career

Bobritsky first entered a swimming pool when she was seven months old, and has been engaged in artistic swimming since the age of five years old. At 11 years of age, she began competing for Israel's junior team, and in the 11th grade she became a member of Israel's senior team.

2018–19

In March 2018, at 16 years of age, at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2018 in Paris, France, Bobritsky won a

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in the Women Team Highlight. In May 2018 at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2018 in Budapest, Hungary, she won a

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in the Women Team Highlight, and bronze medals in the Women Team Free and the Women Team Free Combination. In March 2019 at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2019 in Paris, France, Bobritsky won a silver medal in the Women Team Free Combination, and bronze medals in the Women Team Free, Women Team Highlight, and Women Team Technical. In April 2019 at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2019 in Alexandroupolis, Greece, she won a

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in the Women Team Free Combination and a bronze medal in the Women Team Free.

2020–21

In 2020 at the French Open artistic swimming championship in Paris, Bobritsky and

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ranked fifth overall in the free duet and seventh in the technical duet. On April 11, 2021, at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2021 in Budapest, Hungary, she won bronze medals in the Women Duet Free, the Women Duet Technical, and the Women Team Free. In May 2021 at the

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in Budapest, Hungary, Bobritsky won a bronze medal with Team Israel in the team free routine.

2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics (in 2021)

In August 2021, Bobritsky represented

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with Eden Blecher in the Tokyo

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Women's duet artistic swimming. They finished in 15th position and did not advance to the finals.

2022

In April 2022 at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2022 in Paris, France, Bobritsky won a gold medal in the Women Team Free Combination, a silver medal in the Women Duet Free, and bronze medals in the Women Team Technical, Women Team Free, and Women Duet Technical. In May 2022 at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2022 in Australia, she won a gold medal in the Mixed Team Free Combination, silver medals in the Women Duet Free, Women Team Free, and Women Duet Technical, and a bronze medal in the Women Team Technical. Later in May 2022 at the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series 2022 - Super Final in Athens, Greece, Bobritsky won a gold medal in the Women Team Free, silver medals in the Mixed Team Free Combination and the Women Team Technical, and bronze medals in the Women Duet Free and the Mixed Team Highlight/Acrobatic. In August 2022 at the European Championships in Rome, Italy, she won a silver medal in the Women Team Free Combination.

2023; European Games gold medal

In March 2023 at the

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Artistic Swimming World Cup in Markham, Canada, Bobritsky and Ariel Nassee won the Women's Duet Technical gold medal and a Duet Free bronze medal, and she won a bronze medal in the team technical. On May 7, 2023, at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup 2023 in the team free she won a silver medal in

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, France. In June 2023, at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup 2023 Super Final in

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, in the Women Duet Free she won a gold medal, and in the Technical Duet event, Bobritsky and fellow Israeli Ariel Nassee won the gold medal with 225.7915 points. Bobritsky said: "We knew we could win the gold. We are fighting for a medal, so we brought everything we had into this moment. We were focused." Also in June 2023, at the Artistic swimming at the 2023 European Games – Free routine combination in Oswiecim, Poland, she and Team Israel won the gold medal, and two days later in the team free routine they won the bronze medal, as in the duet free routine Bobritsky won the bronze medal with Ariel Nassee. On July 5, 2023, she won a silver medal in the team free at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup 2023 in France with a personal best score of 356.3647.

2024–present

On April 7, 2024, Bobritsky won a gold medal with Ariel Nassee in the Women's Duet Free at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup 2024 in

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, China.

2024 Paris Olympics

Bobritsky is representing Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in artistic swimming-duet with Ariel Nassee at the

on August 9 and 10, 2024.

Career highlights

References

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