2024
Olympic silver medal
Paris 2024 Olympic Games · –78 kg
Silver
Inbar Lanir
ענבר לניר
Olympic silver medalist. World champion. –78 kg.
Fast, dynamic, explosive, aggressive.
Nine seconds from hajime to ippon. Twenty years to the podium in Paris.
- Weight class
- –78 kg
- Country
- Israel
- Born
- Height
- 1.76 m
- Best ranking
- World No. 1
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Ippon
Tbilisi Grand Slam, 2021. Nine seconds from hajime to ippon against Austria's Bernadette Graf.
Two years later she won the World Masters in Budapest having spent under a minute on the mat across the entire tournament.
Twenty years to the podium
Inbar Lanir is an Israeli judoka competing in the –78 kg category. She stepped onto a tatami at five years old and has not stepped off since: more than twenty years in a sport that gives nothing away.
In 2023 she became World Champion in Doha. She beat the world number one, Alice Bellandi, in the semi-final with a belt-grip counter-throw, while behind on the scoreboard. Later that year she took the World Masters title in Budapest and reached world number one herself.
In August 2024 she won Olympic silver in Paris, a lifelong goal and a historic moment for Israeli judo. Three years earlier in Tokyo she took Olympic bronze with the Israeli mixed team.
In April 2026 she injured a shoulder at the European Championships in Tbilisi. She had surgery that June, scheduled early on purpose so the recovery clears before the Los Angeles 2028 qualification window matters. She is rebuilding for it now.
“My style is very aggressive and offensive. Taking those risks and turning them into chances in my favour.” Inbar Lanir, Walla Sport
Career honours
The results that matter, in order. The complete competition record, every Grand Slam, Grand Prix and European medal, lives on the record page.
2023
World Champion
World Judo Championships, Doha, Qatar · –78 kg
Gold
2023
Best European Female Judoka
Named by the European Judo Union for 2023
Award
2023
World No. 1
IJF world ranking, –78 kg
Ranking
2023
World Masters champion
World Judo Masters, Budapest, Hungary
Gold
2021
Olympic bronze medal, mixed team
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, with the Israeli mixed team
Bronze
Watch some fights
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On the mat
Partners
The organisations behind a season of training and competition. A season means camps, physiotherapy, travel to eight countries and a full coaching staff. Medals fund none of it.
There is room on the road to Los Angeles 2028 for partners who want to be part of it.
Contact
Write directly. Every enquiry reaches Inbar.
- Sponsorship & partnership rlanir@gmail.com
- Media & interviews rlanir@gmail.com
- Appearances & events rlanir@gmail.com
Journalists: bios, spellings, facts and photography terms are all in the press kit.
On Instagram
Training, competition and the days in between. Each photograph links to the original post.
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