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Israel at the 1974 Asian Games
IOC code	ISR
NOC	Olympic Committee of Israel
in Tehran, Iran
Medals Ranked 6th	Gold 7 Silver 4 Bronze 8 Total 19
Asian Games appearances (overview)
1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974

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.

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.

Expulsion after the Games

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.

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

Medals

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	4	1	1	6
Basketball	1	0	0	1
Fencing	0	0	1	1
Football	0	1	0	1
Swimming	1	0	1	2
Tennis	1	1	1	3
Weightlifting	0	1	4	5
Totals (7 entries)	7	4	8	19

Athletics

Men

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

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

Preliminary round - group B

Standings

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

Israel

122–73

Philippines

Second Round - group B

Standings

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

Israel	2–0	Pakistan
Walkover

Israel	116–93	South Korea
Scoring by half: 59–50, 57–43

Japan	68–100	Israel
Scoring by half: 37–41, 31–59

Final round

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	September 13
	Israel	123
					September 15
	Philippines	101
					Israel	92
	September 13
					South Korea	85
	China	114
	South Korea (OT)	119
					Bronze medal game
					September 15
					Philippines	89
					China	102

Semi-finals

Israel	123–101	Philippines
Scoring by half: 62–45, 48–43

Finals

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

Roster

Coach: Abraham Hemo

• Motti Aroesti
• Shamuel Avishar
• Miki Berkovich
• Tal Brody
• Jacob Eisner
• Hanan Keren
• Itamar Marzel
• Avigdor Moskowitz
• Shamuel Nachmias
• Shuki Schwartz
• Boaz Yanai
• Shmaryahu Zaslevsky

Fencing

Women

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

Preliminary round - group C

Standings

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

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

Standings

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

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

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

Shooting

Air pistol

Rank	Athlete	Score
9	Dan Barkai (ISR)	359

Free pistol

Rank	Athlete	Score
8	Dan Barkai (ISR)	519

Air rifle

Rank	Athlete	Score
7	Zelig Shtroch (ISR)	368

Small bore rifle prone

Rank	Athlete	Score
5	Henry Hershkowitz (ISR)	585

Rank	Team	Score
5	Israel (ISR)	2316

Small bore rifle 3 positions

Rank	Athlete	Score
5	Zelig Shtroch (ISR)	1108

Rank	Team	Score
6	Israel (ISR)	4355

Small bore standard rifle 3 positions

Rank	Athlete	Score
6	Zelig Shtroch (ISR)	543

Rank	Team	Score
6	Israel (ISR)	2111

Swimming

Medal summary

Men

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

100 m freestyle

Heats

Rank	Athlete	Time
2	Dan Brenner (ISR)	56.34
8	Adi Prag (ISR)	57.80

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time
	Dan Brenner (ISR)	55.56
6	Adi Prag (ISR)	57.56

200 m freestyle

Heats

Rank	Athlete	Time
3	Adi Prag (ISR)	2:05.06
8	Dan Brenner (ISR)	2:07.33

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time
	Dan Brenner (ISR)	2:02.61
5	Adi Prag (ISR)	2:05.33

400 m freestyle

Heats

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

100 m butterfly

Heats

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

Final

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

200 m butterfly

Heats

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

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time
4	Adi Prag (ISR)	2:12.49

200 m individual medley

Heats

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

Women

100 m breaststroke

Heats

Rank	Athlete	Time
6	Nava Kagan (ISR)	1:22.71
7	Tamar Meissner (ISR)	1:23.87

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time
4	Nava Kagan (ISR)	1:21.45
7	Tamar Meissner (ISR)	1:23.72

200 m breaststroke

Heats

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

Final

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

200 m individual medley

Heats

Rank	Athlete	Time
7	Tamar Meissner (ISR)	2:45.81

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time
5	Tamar Meissner (ISR)	2:43.84

Tennis

Medalists

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

Medal summary

Medalists

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

82.5 kg

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

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

110 kg

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

References

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.

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