Israel at the 1974 Asian Games

Israel at the
1974 Asian Games
IOC codeISR
NOCOlympic Committee of Israel
in Tehran, Iran
Medals
Ranked 6th
Gold
7
Silver
4
Bronze
8
Total
19
Asian Games appearances (overview)

Israel participated in the 1974 Asian Games held in Tehran, Iran from 1 September 1974 to 16 September 1974. This was the last appearance of Israel in Asian Games. Athletes from Israel won overall 19 medals, including seven gold, and finished sixth in a medal table.[1]

In this Games, athletes from the Arab nations, as well as Iran, Pakistan, China, and North Korea – all of which refused to play with Israel; not in any of these 1974 Asian Games' events: tennis, fencing, basketball and football (soccer) – because of political reasons.[2]

Expulsion after the Games

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Two years after the Games, Asian Games Federation barred Israel from participating in the 1978 Asian Games. In July 1976 the 25 members of the Asian Games Federation were canvassed to see if Israel should participate in the 1978 Games, with all 12 responses received voting against including Israel.[3]

The real reason is that the Federation has seven Arab countries and China and they want to expel us.

—President of the Israel Olympic Committee, Joseph Inbar[4]

Medals

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GamesGoldSilverBronzeTotal
 Athletics4116
 Basketball1001
 Fencing0011
 Football0101
 Swimming1012
 Tennis1113
 Weightlifting0145
Totals (7 entries)74819

Athletics

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Men

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
5000 m Shivnath Singh
 India
14:20.50 Yuval Wischnitzer
 Israel
14:21.50 Kenichi Ozawa
 Japan
14:22.15

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m Esther Roth
 Israel
11.90 He Zufen
 China
12.10 Keiko Yamada
 Japan
12.42
200 m Esther Roth
 Israel
23.79 He Zufen
 China
24.41 Emiko Konishi
 Japan
24.94
1500 m Song Meihua
 China
4:28.68 Yang Yanying
 China
4:29.17 Hana Shezifi
 Israel
4:31.00
100 m hurdles Esther Roth
 Israel
13.31 Toshimi Hayashida
 Japan
14.28 Miyuki Iioka
 Japan
14.32
High jump Orit Abramovitz
 Israel
1.78 Mikiko Sone
 Japan
1.78 Wu Fushan
 China
1.74

Basketball

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Preliminary round - group B

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Standings

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Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
 Israel 1 1 0 122 73 +49 2
 Philippines 1 0 1 73 122 −49 1

Games

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September 2
8:30
Israel  122–73  Philippines

Second Round - group B

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Standings

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Team Pld W L PF PA PD Pts
 Israel 3 3 0 216 161 +57 6
 South Korea 3 2 1 336 288 +48 5
 Japan 3 1 2 287 293 −6 4
 Pakistan 3 0 3 175 274 −99 2

Games

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September 7
17:00
Israel  2–0  Pakistan
Walkover

September 9
19:00
Israel  116–93  South Korea
Scoring by half: 59–50, 57–43

September 12
18:30
Japan  68–100  Israel
Scoring by half: 37–41, 31–59

Final round

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Bracket

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
September 13
 
 
 Israel123
 
September 15
 
 Philippines101
 
 Israel92
 
September 13
 
 South Korea85
 
 China114
 
 
 South Korea (OT)119
 
Bronze medal game
 
 
September 15
 
 
 Philippines89
 
 
 China102

Semi-finals

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September 13
18:30
Israel  123–101  Philippines
Scoring by half: 62–45, 48–43

Finals

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September 15
15:30
Israel  92–85  South Korea
Scoring by half: 50–43, 42–42

Roster

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Coach: Abraham Hemo

Fencing

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Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team foil
details
 Iran
Maryam Achak
Jila Almasi
Giti Mohebban
Mahvash Shafaei
Maryam Shariatzadeh
 Japan
Hiroko Kamada
 Israel
Nurit Carmi
Nili Drori
Inbar Guy
Orli Schreiber

Football

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Preliminary round - group C

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Standings

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Israel 3 3 0 0 17 3 +14 6
 Malaysia 3 1 1 1 15 9 +6 3
 Japan 3 1 1 1 5 4 +1 3
 Philippines 3 0 0 3 0 21 −21 0

Matches

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3 September Israel  8 – 3  Malaysia Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
16:30 Onana 4', 18'
Shalom Schwarz 10'
Feigenbaum 39'
Damti 48', 67', 89'
Massuari 75'
Zawawi 61' (pen.)
Ahmad 75', 80'
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Kim Joo-Won (South Korea)

5 September Israel  6 – 0  Philippines Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
16:30 Schweizer 16', 42'
Damti 24'
Shum 31'
Onana 41'
Feigenbaum 90'
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Reza Heidari (Iran)

7 September Japan  0 – 3  Israel Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
18:00 Feigenbaum 55', 63'
Damti 86'
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Davoud Heidari (Iran)

Second round - group B

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Standings

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Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Israel 3 3 0 0 7 0 +7 6
 North Korea 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 3
 Kuwait 3 1 0 2 5 6 −1 2
 Burma 3 0 1 2 4 10 −6 1

Matches

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10 September Israel  3 – 0  Burma Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
18:00 Yehoshua Feigenbaum 31'
Moshe Schweitzer 49'
Gidi Damti 89'
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Jafar Namdar (Iran)

12 September Israel  2 – 0
Awarded
 North Korea Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
20:30

14 September Israel  2 – 0
Awarded
 Kuwait Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
21:00

Finals

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15 September Israel  0 – 1  Iran Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
19:30 Shum 30' (o.g.) Attendance: 100,000
Referee: Mohammed Azam (India)

Shooting

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Air pistol

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Rank Athlete Score
9  Dan Barkai (ISR) 359

Free pistol

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Rank Athlete Score
8  Dan Barkai (ISR) 519

Air rifle

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Rank Athlete Score
7  Zelig Shtroch (ISR) 368

Small bore rifle prone

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Rank Athlete Score
5  Henry Hershkowitz (ISR) 585
Rank Team Score
5  Israel (ISR) 2316

Small bore rifle 3 positions

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Rank Athlete Score
5  Zelig Shtroch (ISR) 1108
Rank Team Score
6  Israel (ISR) 4355

Small bore standard rifle 3 positions

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Rank Athlete Score
6  Zelig Shtroch (ISR) 543
Rank Team Score
6  Israel (ISR) 2111

Swimming

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Medal summary

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Men

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle Dan Brenner
 Israel
55.56 Lin Senlin
 China
55.91 Akira Iida
 Japan
56.31
200 m freestyle Yukio Horiuchi
 Japan
2:01.68 Cho Oh-yun
 South Korea
2:01.97 Dan Brenner
 Israel
2:02.61

Men's results

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100 m freestyle

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Heats
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Rank Athlete Time
2  Dan Brenner (ISR) 56.34
8  Adi Prag (ISR) 57.80
Final
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Rank Athlete Time
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Dan Brenner (ISR) 55.56
6  Adi Prag (ISR) 57.56

200 m freestyle

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Heats
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Rank Athlete Time
3  Adi Prag (ISR) 2:05.06
8  Dan Brenner (ISR) 2:07.33
Final
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Rank Athlete Time
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Dan Brenner (ISR) 2:02.61
5  Adi Prag (ISR) 2:05.33

400 m freestyle

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Heats
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Rank Athlete Time
7 Withdrew  Dan Brenner (ISR) 4:41.44

100 m butterfly

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Heats
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Rank Athlete Time
4  Adi Prag (ISR) 1:01.42
5  Michael Greenspan (ISR) 1:02.17
Final
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Rank Athlete Time
4  Adi Prag (ISR) 1:00.81
5  Michael Greenspan (ISR) 1:01.14

200 m butterfly

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Heats
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Rank Athlete Time
4  Adi Prag (ISR) 2:15.38
11  Michael Greenspan (ISR) 2:24.49
Final
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Rank Athlete Time
4  Adi Prag (ISR) 2:12.49

200 m individual medley

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Heats
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Rank Athlete Time
5  Adi Prag (ISR) 2:24.18

Women

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100 m breaststroke

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Heats
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Rank Athlete Time
6  Nava Kagan (ISR) 1:22.71
7  Tamar Meissner (ISR) 1:23.87
Final
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Rank Athlete Time
4  Nava Kagan (ISR) 1:21.45
7  Tamar Meissner (ISR) 1:23.72

200 m breaststroke

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Heats
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Rank Athlete Time
5  Nava Kagan (ISR) 2:58.56
7  Tamar Meissner (ISR) 3:00.82
Final
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Rank Athlete Time
5  Nava Kagan (ISR) 2:56.15
7  Tamar Meissner (ISR) 3:03.49

200 m individual medley

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Heats
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Rank Athlete Time
7  Tamar Meissner (ISR) 2:45.81
Final
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Rank Athlete Time
5  Tamar Meissner (ISR) 2:43.84

Tennis

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Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles Toshiro Sakai
 Japan
Taghi Akbari
 Iran
Yehoshua Shalem
 Israel
Women's singles Lita Sugiarto
 Indonesia
Paulina Peisachov
 Israel
Lany Kaligis
 Indonesia
Mixed doubles  Israel
Yair Wertheimer
Paulina Peisachov
 China
Xu Meilin
Zhang Ronghua
 Japan
Ryoichi Mori
Kimiyo Yagahara

Weightlifting

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Medal summary

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Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Middle heavyweight (90 kg)
Snatch Qian Yukai
 China
Ali Vali
 Iran
Adi Brana
 Israel
Clean & Jerk Ali Vali
 Iran
Qian Yukai
 China
Adi Brana
 Israel
Total Ali Vali
 Iran
Qian Yukai
 China
Adi Brana
 Israel
Heavyweight (110 kg)
Snatch Houshang Kargarnejad
 Iran
Shlomo Ben-Lulu
 Israel
Yun Suk-won
 South Korea
Total Houshang Kargarnejad
 Iran
Yun Suk-won
 South Korea
Shlomo Ben-Lulu
 Israel

Results

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82.5 kg

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Rank Athlete Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
Result Rank Result Rank
4  S. Fried (ISR) 282.5
5  T. Kaplan (ISR) 262.5

90 kg

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Rank Athlete Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
Result Rank Result Rank
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Adi Brana (ISR) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 270.0

110 kg

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Rank Athlete Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
Result Rank Result Rank
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Shlomo Ben-Lulu (ISR) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 302.5

References

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  1. ^ "Overall medal standings – Tehran 1974". Olympic Council of Asia. ocasia.org. Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
  2. ^ "Asian Games – Tehran 1974". Olympic Council of Asia. ocasia.org. Archived from the original on May 22, 2011. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  3. ^ Asian Games Ban Israel
  4. ^ "Asian Games ban Israel". St. Petersburg Times. Montreal. July 26, 1976. p. 7c. Retrieved June 26, 2011.