Alice Schlesinger

Alice Schlesinger was born in 1988 in Herzliya

Schlesinger was born on 26 May 1988 in Herzliya and grew up there. Her father is an Israeli Jew and her mother was born in England and converted to Judaism, so she holds both Israeli and British citizenship. Her brother introduced her to judo, and she began training at age 7 with the Judokan Rishon LeZion club.

At age 14 she moved to the boarding school for gifted athletes at the Wingate Institute. She has studied psychology.

Competing for Israel, she won European junior titles and took part in the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics. She won European bronze medals in 2008, 2009 and 2012 and a world bronze in 2009, and the Olympic Committee of Israel named her 2009 Athlete of the Year. After London she entered a public dispute with the Israel Judo Association and turned to sambo, winning world titles in 2013 and 2014.

From December 2014 she represented Great Britain. She competed at the 2016 Rio Olympics, won European bronze in 2017 and won silver at the 2019 European Games in Minsk.

She married her personal coach Pavel Musin in September 2015. She now coaches children in judo and sambo in Rishon LeZion.