Tohar Butbul

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Tohar Butbul
Tohar Butbul (ISR).jpg
Personal information
Native nameטוהר בוטבול‎
Nationality Israeli
Born (1994-01-24) 24 January 1994 (age 29)
Zoran, Israel
Occupation Judoka
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Sport
Country Israel
Sport Judo
Weight class –73kg
Rank      3rd dan black belt [2]
Coached by Oren Smadja
Achievements and titles
World Champ. 5th (2022)
European Champ. Silver medal europe.svg (2021)
Olympic Games 7th (2020)
Highest world ranking4th [3] [4]
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing Flag of Israel.svg  Israel
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Mixed team
European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Lisbon ‍–‍73 kg
World Masters
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Qingdao ‍–‍73 kg
IJF Grand Slam
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Baku ‍–‍73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Paris ‍–‍73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Abu Dhabi ‍–‍73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Düsseldorf ‍–‍73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Tel Aviv ‍–‍73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Tel Aviv ‍–‍73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Ulaanbaatar ‍–‍73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Budapest ‍–‍73 kg
IJF Grand Prix
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Zagreb ‍–‍73 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Linz ‍–‍73 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Cancún ‍–‍73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Antalya ‍–‍73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Zagreb ‍–‍73 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Tel Aviv ‍–‍73 kg
European U23 Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Tel Aviv ‍–‍73 kg
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Bucharest ‍–‍73 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF 16638
JudoInside.com 85104
Updated on 27 May 2023.

Tohar Butbul (Hebrew : טוהר בוטבול; born 24 January 1994) is an Israeli judoka. [5] He competes in the under 73 kg weight category, where he won silver medals at the 2019 Judo World Masters [6] [7] and the 2021 European Championships, [8] [9] [10] and won bronze medals in the 2017 Paris Grand Slam [11] [12] and 2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam. [13] [14] As of March 2018 he was ranked #9 in the world in the U73 kg division. [15]

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Judo career

Butbul started training in judo when he was five years old at Oren Smadja's school. On September 19, 2014, Butbul took part in the under 21 European championship which was held in Bucharest and won the bronze medal after defeating Nuno Saraiva of Portugal on the medal match. [16] [17]

Butbul's first medal at a senior competition came at the 'European Open Sofia' in January 2016 as he won the bronze after he defeated Sam Van't Westende of the Netherlands. [18] [19] On November 11, 2016, Butbul participated in the under 23 European Championship in Tel Aviv and won the silver in the 73 kg weight category after losing to Hidayet Heydarov of Azerbaijan in the final. [20] [21] [22] [23]

On February 11, 2017, Butbul took part at the prestigious Paris Grand Slam for the first time and won a bronze medal. [11] [12] In the quarter-final match he defeated local French Loïc Korval but lost in the semi-final to Japan's Soichi Hashimoto. He then battled for the bronze against Giyosjon Boboev of Uzbekistan and won after he got a Waza-ari in golden score time. [24]

In April 2017, Butbul won the bronze medal at the Antalya Grand Prix [25] [26] after he defeated Rok Drakšič of Slovenia. Butbul participated in the 2017 European Championships held in Warsaw and finished in 5th place after he lost in the semi-final to Russia's Musa Mogushkov and in the bronze medal match to Tommy Macias of Sweden. [27] [28] [29] On June 17, he won the silver medal at the Cancún Grand Prix. [30] [31] On October 27, he took part in the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam and won a bronze medal. [13] [14]

Butbul represents Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Competing in the men's 73 kg weight category, Butbul was to start his competition fighting the winner of a match between Algerian Fethi Nourine and Sudanese Mohamed Abdalarasool – who both withdrew instead of facing an Israeli opponent in order to express solidarity with Palestine. [32] [33] [34] Advancing without a fight to the round of 16, Butbul faced Moldova's Victor Sterpu, the 2020 European champion, and beat him with an ippon. At the quarterfinals, he lost to the South Korean 2018 world champion An Chang-rim, keeping a chance to win bronze through the repechage. Losing in the repechage to the Canadian 2016 Pan American champion Arthur Margelidon, Butbul finished the competition in seventh place. [35] [36] [37] [38]

He won one of the bronze medals in his event at the 2022 Judo Grand Slam Tel Aviv held in Tel Aviv, Israel. [39]

Titles

Source: [40] [5]

YearTournamentPlaceRef.
2017 Grand Slam Paris Bronze medal icon.svg [11] [12]
Grand Prix Antalya Bronze medal icon.svg [25] [26]
Grand Prix Cancún Silver medal icon.svg [30] [31]
Grand Slam Abu Dhabi Bronze medal icon.svg [13] [14]
2018 Grand Slam Düsseldorf Bronze medal icon.svg [41] [42]
Grand Prix Zagreb Bronze medal icon.svg [43] [44]
2019 Grand Prix Tel Aviv Bronze medal icon.svg [45] [46]
Grand Slam Baku Silver medal icon.svg [47] [48]
Grand Prix Zagreb Gold medal icon.svg [49] [50]
World Masters Silver medal icon.svg [6] [7]
2021 Grand Slam Tel Aviv Bronze medal icon.svg [51] [52]
European Championships Silver medal icon.svg [8] [9] [10]
2022 Grand Slam Tel Aviv Bronze medal icon.svg [53] [54] [55]
Grand Slam Ulaanbaatar Bronze medal icon.svg [56] [57] [58]
Grand Slam Budapest Bronze medal icon.svg [59] [60] [61]
2023 Grand Prix Linz Gold medal icon.svg [62] [63] [64]

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