Israel at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Israel participated with 45 athletes at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. Flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the float Izhar Cohen. The most successful swimmer Inbal Pezaro was with three silver medals.

Participants by sport

Archery

  • Amit Dror

Athletics

  • Gai Ben Dor
  • Offer Ben Dor
  • Beza Nebeva - Simei

Cycling

  • Nati Groberg

Riding

  • Omer Ben Dor

Wheelchair Basketball

  • Oon Igan Allon Dor
  • David Drai
  • Lior Dror
  • Ron Furman
  • Shay - Refael Haim
  • Liran Hendel
  • Avraham Lehrman
  • Dotan meishar
  • Ariel Ottolenghi
  • Red Philipps
  • Roei Rozenberg
  • Eyal Sar Tov

Wheelchair Tennis

Women

  • Ilanit Fridman
  • Boaz Kramer
  • Shraga Weinberg
  • Boaz Kramer
  • Shraga Weinberg

Rowing

Women

  • Pascal Bercovitch
  • Anastasia Dobrovolski
  • Shir Kalmanovitz
  • Mari Kogan
  • Igor Kogan
  • Reuven Magnagey
  • Eli Nawi, 1x ( One, Class A )
  • Genady Sapoznikov
  • Andrew Zuhbaia
  • Doron Shaziri, 1x (Free rifle at 50 meters, Class SH1 )

Swimming

Women

  • Keren Leibovitch
  • Inbal Pezaro, 3x ( 100m 200m freestyle, class S5, 100m breaststroke, class SB4 )
  • Inbal Schwartz
  • Lioz Amar
  • Ziv Better
  • Izhar Cohen ( float ) Izhar Cohen
  • Iyad Shalabi

Sailing

  • Dror Cohen
  • Arnon Efrati
  • Benny Vexler

Table tennis

  • David Altaraz
  • Liran Geva
  • Zeev Glikman
  • Shmuel Shur
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