page_title: Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics
section_title: Medalists
hierarchical_section_title: Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics / Medalists
caption_attribution_description: Yarden Gerbi
context_page_description: Israel competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. It was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics. The Olympic Committee of Israel confirmed a team of 47 athletes, 22 men and 25 women, to compete across 17 sports at the Games. It was the nation's largest ever delegation sent to the Olympics, breaking its previous record of 43 athletes set in 2008. Among the sports represented by its athletes, Israel marked its Olympic debut in golf, mountain biking, and triathlon, as well as its return to road cycling, taekwondo, weightlifting, and wrestling after long years of absence. The nation's full roster also reached a historic milestone for Israeli women, as they officially outnumbered the men for the first time.
  The Israeli delegation featured 14 returning Olympians.
caption: Yarden Gerbi, a judoka
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