
Tom Reuveny finishes first in the men’s iQFoil windsurfing final, picking up Israel’s first gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Reuveny’s win is something of a sensation, as he had previously not even been expected to make it to the semifinals.
- The son of a British mother and Israel father, he began sailing at age eight. Now 24, these are his first Olympic Games.
He previously took fourth place in the 2022 iQFOiL Wold Championships and before that won gold and bronze medals at the RS”X Youth World Championships in 2017 and 2016, respectively.
תום ראובני אלוף אולימפי! 🥇
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Tom’s win takes Israel to five total medals at the Paris Olympics so far, breaking the previous record set in Tokyo (4). This is Israel’s fourth OIlympic gold ever, and its second in windsurfing following Gal Friedman in Athens 2004.
Israel’s two windsurfing medals today (Reuveny’s alongside Sharon Kantor’s silver) are its first Olympic windsurfing medals since the Beijing Games in 2008.
Source: TOI