Background and career
Baruch Shmailov (Hebrew: ברוך שמאילוב; born 2 September 1994) is an Israeli retired Olympic judoka. He competes in the under 66 kg weight category, and won a gold medal in the 2022 World Masters in Jerusalem. Shmailov also won a bronze in the 2017 World Masters, as well as silver at both the 2018 World Masters and the 2021 World Masters.
Shmailov competed for Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics, finishing in fifth place in the men's 66 kg event and winning a bronze medal in the mixed team event. He has reached a high world ranking of third in 2019, 2022, and 2024. Shmailov represented Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in judo in the men's 66 kg event (where he beat Morocco's Abderrahmane Boushita in his first match, lost to Tajikistan's Nurali Emomali in his round of 16 match, and came in 9th), and in the mixed team event in which Team Israel came in ninth.
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