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Baruch Shmailov

Baruch Shmailov is an Israeli judoka in the under 66 kg category who won an Olympic bronze medal with Israel's mixed team at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

born 1994Olympic mixed team bronze, Tokyo 20202022 World Masters gold2014 European Junior Championship title

Born: 2 September 1994, Hadera
Occupation: judoka

Baruch Shmailov was born in 1994 in Hadera

Shmailov was born in Hadera in 1994 and grew up there with his mother Elza, who worked as a solderer at an electronics company. His parents divorced when he was 4. At 6 his mother sent him to jujutsu and karate classes, and he also took up judo.

At 11, former judoka and politician Yoel Razvozov saw him train in Hadera and recommended that he move to the Wingate Institute. In 2014 he won the European Junior Championships in Bucharest and the European U23 Championships in Wrocław, and took bronze at the World Juniors Championships.

He won his first senior medal, a silver, at the 2015 Tbilisi Grand Prix. He won medals at several World Masters events, including gold in Jerusalem in 2022, and at many Grand Slam and Grand Prix events. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics he placed fifth in the 66 kg event and won bronze in the mixed team event.

He had meniscus surgery in June 2023. At the 2024 Paris Olympics he finished 9th in the 66 kg event, and Israel finished ninth in the mixed team event. He is married to judoka Betina Temelkova, and the couple's son Eitan was born in 2025.