Israel at the 1974 Asian Games


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]

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)

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 edit

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 edit

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

Athletics edit

Men edit

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 edit

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 edit

Preliminary round - group B edit

Standings edit

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 edit


September 2
8:30
Israel   122–73   Philippines

Second Round - group B edit

Standings edit

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 edit


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 edit

Bracket edit

 
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 edit


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

Finals edit


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

Roster edit

Coach: Abraham Hemo

Fencing edit

Women edit

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 edit

Preliminary round - group C edit

Standings edit

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 edit


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 edit

Standings edit

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 edit


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 edit


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

Shooting edit

Air pistol edit

Rank Athlete Score
9   Dan Barkai (ISR) 359

Free pistol edit

Rank Athlete Score
8   Dan Barkai (ISR) 519

Air rifle edit

Rank Athlete Score
7   Zelig Shtroch (ISR) 368

Small bore rifle prone edit

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

Small bore rifle 3 positions edit

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

Small bore standard rifle 3 positions edit

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

Swimming edit

Medal summary edit

Men edit

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 edit

100 m freestyle edit

Heats edit
Rank Athlete Time
2   Dan Brenner (ISR) 56.34
8   Adi Prag (ISR) 57.80
Final edit
Rank Athlete Time
    Dan Brenner (ISR) 55.56
6   Adi Prag (ISR) 57.56

200 m freestyle edit

Heats edit
Rank Athlete Time
3   Adi Prag (ISR) 2:05.06
8   Dan Brenner (ISR) 2:07.33
Final edit
Rank Athlete Time
    Dan Brenner (ISR) 2:02.61
5   Adi Prag (ISR) 2:05.33

400 m freestyle edit

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

100 m butterfly edit

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

200 m butterfly edit

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

200 m individual medley edit

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

Women edit

100 m breaststroke edit

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

200 m breaststroke edit

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

200 m individual medley edit

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

Tennis edit

Medalists edit

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 edit

Medal summary edit

Medalists edit

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 edit

82.5 kg edit

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 edit

Rank Athlete Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
Result Rank Result Rank
    Adi Brana (ISR)     270.0

110 kg edit

Rank Athlete Snatch (kg) Clean & Jerk (kg) Total
Result Rank Result Rank
    Shlomo Ben-Lulu (ISR)   302.5

References edit

  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.