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Meiron Cheruti

Meiron Cheruti is an Israeli swimmer in freestyle and butterfly sprint events who represented Israel at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics.

born 1997Israeli records in sprint swimmingOlympic swimmer at Tokyo and Paris50m freestyle under 22 seconds

Born: 19 October 1997, Haifa
Occupation: swimmer

Meiron Cheruti was born in 1997 in Haifa

Meiron Cheruti was born on 19 October 1997 in Haifa. He started swimming at the age of 5.

He trained with Hapoel Kiryat Tivon and Maccabi Haifa, and later at the Wingate Institute. He has also trained at CN Marseille and is part of Project Rising Star, a program of coach David Marsh and the Israel Swimming Association. He studies education and society with a focus on sport at Ono Academic College.

In 2016 he placed 8th in the 50m butterfly at the European Championships in London and set an Israeli record in the semifinal. He set several more national records in the following years, and in 2019 he swam at the World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju. He became the first Israeli swimmer to swim the 50m freestyle in under 22 seconds.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics he placed 17th in the 50m freestyle and 29th in the 100m freestyle. In 2022 he won gold in the 50m butterfly at the Maccabiah Games. In 2023 he set an Israeli record of 21.84 in the 50m freestyle, which qualified him for the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he swam the same event.