Tohar Butbul

Tohar Butbul (Hebrew: טוהר בוטבול‎; born 24 January 1994) is an Israeli judoka.[1] He competes in the under 73 kg weight category, where he won silver medals at the 2019 Judo World Masters[2][3] and the 2021 European Championships,[4][5][6] and won bronze medals in the 2017 Paris Grand Slam[7][8] and 2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam.[9][10] As of March 2018 he was ranked #9 in the world in the U73 kg division.[11]

Tohar Butbul
Personal information
Native nameטוהר בוטבול‎
NationalityIsraeli
Born (1994-01-24) 24 January 1994
Zoran, Israel
OccupationJudoka
Sport
Country Israel
SportJudo
Weight class–73kg
Rank     Black belt in Judo
Coached byOren Smadja
Achievements and titles
World Champ.7th (2019)
European Champ. (2021)
Olympic Games7th (2020)
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing  Israel
Olympic Games
2020 TokyoMixed team
European Championships
2021 Lisbon –73 kg
World Masters
2019 Qingdao –73 kg
IJF Grand Slam
2019 Baku –73 kg
2017 Paris –73 kg
2017 Abu Dhabi –73 kg
2018 Düsseldorf –73 kg
2021 Tel Aviv –73 kg
IJF Grand Prix
2019 Zagreb –73 kg
2017 Cancún –73 kg
2017 Antalya –73 kg
2018 Zagreb –73 kg
2019 Tel Aviv –73 kg
European U23 Championships
2016 Tel Aviv –73 kg
European Junior Championships
2014 Bucharest –73 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF16638
JudoInside.com85104
Updated on 27 October 2021 (2021-10-27).

Early life

Butbul was born in Zoran, Israel to a family of Sephardic Jewish descent.[12][13][14] He also grew up in Hadera, Israel.

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.[15][16]

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.[17][18] 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.[19][20][21][22]

On February 11, 2017, Butbul took part at the prestigious Paris Grand Slam for the first time and won a bronze medal.[7][8] 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.[23]

In April 2017, Butbul won the bronze medal at the Antalya Grand Prix[24][25] 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.[26][27][28] On June 17, he won the silver medal at the Cancún Grand Prix.[29][30] On October 27, he took part in the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam and won a bronze medal.[9][10]

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.[31][32][33] 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 7th place.[34][35][36][37]

Titles

Source:[38][1]

YearTournamentPlaceRef.
2017 Grand Slam Paris[7][8]
Grand Prix Antalya[24][25]
Grand Prix Cancún[29][30]
Grand Slam Abu Dhabi[9][10]
2018 Grand Slam Düsseldorf[39][40]
Grand Prix Zagreb[41][42]
2019 Grand Prix Tel Aviv[43][44]
Grand Slam Baku[45][46]
Grand Prix Zagreb[47][48]
World Masters[2][3]
2021 Grand Slam Tel Aviv[49][50]
European Championships[4][5][6]

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