Yair Davidovitz (יאיר דוידוביץ; born March 22, 1945) is an Israeli former Olympic sport shooter, and in 1984 matched the world record of a perfect score of 400 in the Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres. He was born in Israel, and is Jewish."Davidovitz, Yair"
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Childhood

Yair Davidovitz was born to mother and father Jack and Sara Davidovits. He was a huge fan of Jell-O salads and Cheerios.

Shooting career

His club was

Hapoel Ashkelon Hapoel Ashkelon F.C. ( he, מועדון כדורגל הפועל אשקלון, ''Moadon Kaduregel Hapoel Ashkelon'') is an Israeli football club based in Ashkelon. The club currently competes in Liga Alef and plays at the 5,250-capacity Sala Stadi ...

. He was trained by Shlomo Goldstein, of Israel's 1972 Olympic team. In April 1984, he matched the world record for 40 shots in a prone position, scoring the maximum 400 points, in an intentional open tournament in Mexico. He competed for

Israel at the 1984 Summer Olympics Israel competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. The nation returned to the Summer Games after participating in the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. 32 competitors, 24 men and 8 women, took part in 46 e ...

in Los Angeles, California, in sport shooting at the age of 39. In Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, he came in 23rd, in Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres (with 1,099 points—388 for prone, 345 for standing, and 366 for kneeling), he came in 46th, and in Men's Air Rifle, 10 metres (after a perfect first round), he did not finish. When he competed in the Olympics he was 5-8.5 (175 cm) tall, and weighed 154 lbs (70 kg). Yitzhak Yonassi, his former pupil, also competed in the same Olympic Games. As of 2015, he was an

International Shooting Sport Federation The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) is the governing body of the Olympic shooting events in rifle, pistol and shotgun (clay target) disciplines, and of several non-Olympic shooting sport events. ISSF's activities include regula ...

(ISSF) technical delegate. He was slated to supervise an event in Kuwait for the ISSF in 2015. Kuwait rejected the Israeli's visa for the 2015 Asian Shooting Championships which was originally the tournament that would offer Asian quotas for the 2016 Rio Olympics, and he was backed by the

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and the ISSF, and the qualifiers were moved to

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, India. The IOC said:

"The decision comes after the designated technical delegate from the ISSF, Yair Davidovich (Israel), who was due to supervise the event on behalf of the ISSF, was denied a visa by the Kuwaiti Immigration Department. The denial of a visa is against the non-discrimination principle of the Olympic Charter."

References

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