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Yam Wolczak

Yam Wolczak
Personal information
Native nameים וולצ'ק‎
Born (2003-05-07) 7 May 2003 (age 21)
OccupationJudoka
Height160 cm (5 ft 3 in)[1]
Sport
Country Israel
SportJudo
Weight class‍–‍60 kg
Achievements and titles
Olympic GamesR16 (2024)
World Champ.5th (2022)
European Champ.R32 (2022, 2023)
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing  Israel
IJF Grand Slam
Silver medal – second place 2024 Tbilisi ‍–‍60 kg
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Prague ‍–‍60 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF50682
JudoInside.com134184
Updated on 27 July 2024

Yam Wolczak (Hebrew: ים וולצ'ק; born 7 May 2003) is an Israeli judoka.[2][3] He competes in the U60 kg weight class.[4] He won the 2022 European Junior Championships bronze medal. Wolczak represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in judo; in the Men's 60 kg event he came in ninth, and in the Mixed team event Team Israel also came in ninth.

Judo career

2019–present; European Junior Championships bronze medal

In 2019, Wolczak won bronze medals at the 2019 Fuengirola Cadet European Cup 2019 in Spain in February, and the 2019 Berlin Cadet European Cup in Germany in April.[5]

At the 2020 Fuengirola Cadet European Cup in February, Wolczak won the bronze medal.[5] At the 2021 Israeli U21 Championships in Ra'anana in June, he won the gold medal.[4]

Wolczak placed 5th in the men's 60 kg event at the 2022 World Judo Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[6] At the 2022 European Junior Judo Championships in Prague in the Czech Republic in September he won the bronze medal.[5] At the 2022 Athens Junior European Cup in Greece in March he won the gold medal.[5]

He competed at the 2023 Israeli Championships in Eilat in January, winning the gold medal.[4] Wolczak competed at the 2023 Sarajevo European Open in Bosnia and Herzegovina in September, winning the gold medal.[5]

Wolczak won a silver medal at the 2024 Tbilisi Grand Slam in Georgia in March, at 20 years old.[7] He was selected to represent Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[8][9]

2024 Paris Olympics

Wolczak represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in judo. In the men's 60 kg event he came in 9th, as in the first round he beat Arnold Kisoka from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1:17, 10-0, but in the round of 16 he was defeated by 2024 world champion Giorgi Sardalashvili of Georgia in 2:42, 11-0. In the Mixed team event, Team Israel also came in 9th.[8][10][11][12]

References

  1. ^ "Yam WOLCZAK - Judoka". JudoTV.
  2. ^ "Yam Wolczak". International Judo Federation. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Yam Wolczak". JudoInside.com. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  4. ^ a b c "Yam Wolczak Judoka". JudoInside.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Yam WOLCZAK". IJF.
  6. ^ Zenziper, Nadav (6 October 2022). "Only almost: Yam Wolczak lost the fight for the bronze medal at the World Judo Championships". Ynet sport (in Hebrew). Archived from the original on 13 April 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  7. ^ "First career medal: Yam Volchak won silver at the Tbilisi Grand Slam," Ynet.
  8. ^ a b "Israel's delegation to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games". Wingate Institute (in Hebrew). 25 June 2024. Archived from the original on 26 June 2024. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  9. ^ Aharoni, Oren (16 June 2024). ""We want to win Olympic medals": Israel's judo teams are preparing for the Paris Olympics". Israel Hayom (in Hebrew). Retrieved 26 June 2024.
  10. ^ "Contest Results," olympics.com, 27 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Olympic Judo Results," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 27, 2024.
  12. ^ "Olympics | Classification of 60kg men's judo at Paris Olympics," Xinhua, 28 July 2024.
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yam_Wolczak