Tohar Butbul ( he, טוהר בוטבול; born 24 January 1994) is an Israeli judoka. He competes in the under 73 kg weight category, where he won silver medals at the

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and the 2021 European Championships, and won bronze medals in the 2017 Paris Grand Slam and 2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam. As of March 2018 he was ranked #9 in the world in the U73 kg division.

Judo career

Butbul started training in judo when he was five years old at Oren Smadja's school. On September 19, 2014, Butbul took part in the under 21 European championship which was held in

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and won the bronze medal after defeating Nuno Saraiva of

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on the medal match. Butbul's first medal at a senior competition came at the 'European Open Sofia' in January 2016 as he won the bronze after he defeated Sam Van't Westende of the

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. On November 11, 2016, Butbul participated in the under 23 European Championship in

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and won the silver in the 73 kg weight category after losing to

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in the final. On February 11, 2017, Butbul took part at the prestigious Paris Grand Slam for the first time and won a bronze medal. In the quarter-final match he defeated local French Loïc Korval but lost in the semi-final to Japan's

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. He then battled for the bronze against Giyosjon Boboev of

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and won after he got a

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in golden score time. In April 2017, Butbul won the bronze medal at the Antalya Grand Prix after he defeated Rok Drakšič of

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. Butbul participated in the 2017 European Championships held in

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and finished in 5th place after he lost in the semi-final to Russia's Musa Mogushkov and in the bronze medal match to

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of Sweden. On June 17, he won the silver medal at the Cancún Grand Prix. On October 27, he took part in the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam and won a bronze medal. Butbul represents

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. Competing in the men's 73 kg weight category, Butbul was to start his competition fighting the winner of a match between Algerian Fethi Nourine and Sudanese Mohamed Abdalarasool – who both withdrew instead of facing an Israeli opponent in order to express solidarity with Palestine. Advancing without a fight to the round of 16, Butbul faced Moldova's

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, the 2020 European champion, and beat him with an ippon. At the quarterfinals, he lost to the South Korean 2018 world champion

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, keeping a chance to win bronze through the repechage. Losing in the repechage to the Canadian 2016 Pan American champion Arthur Margelidon, Butbul finished the competition in seventh place. He won one of the bronze medals in his event at the

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held in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Butbul, Tohar 1994 births Living people Israeli male judoka Jewish martial artists Jewish Israeli sportspeople Judoka at the 2019 European Games European Games competitors for Israel Israeli Mizrahi Jews Judoka at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in judo Olympic bronze medalists for Israel Olympic judoka for Israel Olympic Games controversies 21st-century Israeli people