Yam Wolczak
{{Short description|Israeli judoka}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}
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| native_name = {{Script/Hebrew|ים וולצ'ק}}
| native_name_lang = Hebrew
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|7 May 2003|df=y}}
| country = {{ISR}}
| weight_class = {{nbnd}}60 kg
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| rank_ref = {{cite web |title=Association board meeting protocol 31/12/2024 |url=https://www.ija.org.il/html5/web/11009/42507ImageFile3.pdf |website=Israel Judo Association |access-date=4 May 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250504093236/https://www.ija.org.il/html5/web/11009/42507ImageFile3.pdf |archive-date=4 May 2025 |date=4 May 2025 |language=he}}
| dan = 2
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| height = 160 cm{{Cite web|url=https://judotv.com/judoka/50682|title=Yam WOLCZAK - Judoka |website=JudoTV}}
| olympics_rank = R16
| olympics_year = 2024
| olympics_weight = Men's 60 kg
| worlds_rank = 5
| worlds_year = 2022
| worlds_weight = Men's 60 kg
| regionals_type = EU
| regionals_rank = R32
| regionals_year = 2022
| regionals_weight = Men's 60 kg
| regionals_year2 = 2023
| regionals_weight2 = Men's 60 kg
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{{Medal|Sport| Men's judo }}
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{{Medal|Competition| IJF Grand Slam }}
{{Medal|S| 2024 Tbilisi | {{nbnd}}60 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| European Junior Championships }}
{{Medal|B| 2022 Prague | {{nbnd}}60 kg }}
| updated = 4 May 2025
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Yam Wolczak ({{langx|he|ים וולצ'ק}}; born 7 May 2003) is an Israeli judoka.{{cite web |title=Yam Wolczak |url=https://www.ijf.org/judoka/50682 |website=International Judo Federation |access-date=26 June 2024}}{{cite web |title=Yam Wolczak |url=https://www.judoinside.com/judoka/134184 |website=JudoInside.com |access-date=26 June 2024}} He competes in the {{nbnd}}60 kg weight class.{{Cite web|url=https://judoinside.com/judoka/134184/Yam_Wolczak/judo-career|title= Yam Wolczak Judoka|website=JudoInside}} He won a 2022 European Junior Championships bronze medal. Wolczak represented Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics in judo; in the men's 60 kg event he came in ninth, and in the mixed team event Team Israel also came in ninth.
Judo career
=2019–present; European Junior Championships bronze medal=
In 2019, Wolczak won bronze medals at the 2019 Fuengirola Cadet European Cup 2019 in Spain in February, and the 2019 Berlin Cadet European Cup in Germany in April.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ijf.org/judoka/50682/results?results_rank_group=all|title=Yam WOLCZAK |website=IJF}}
At the 2020 Fuengirola Cadet European Cup in February, Wolczak won the bronze medal. At the 2021 Israeli U21 Championships in Ra'anana in June, he won the gold medal.
Wolczak placed 5th in the men's 60 kg event at the 2022 World Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.{{cite news |last1=Zenziper |first1=Nadav |title=Only almost: Yam Wolczak lost the fight for the bronze medal at the World Judo Championships |url=https://www.ynet.co.il/sport/article/hjmf5zhzs |access-date=26 June 2024 |work=Ynet sport |date=6 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230413154115/https://www.ynet.co.il/sport/article/hjmf5zhzs |archive-date=13 April 2023 |language=he}} At the 2022 European Junior Championships in Prague in the Czech Republic in September he won the bronze medal. At the 2022 Athens Junior European Cup in Greece in March he won the gold medal.
Wolczak competed at the 2023 Israeli Championships in Eilat in January, winning the gold medal. Wolczak competed at the 2023 Sarajevo European Open in Bosnia and Herzegovina in September, winning the gold medal.
Wolczak won a silver medal at the 2024 Tbilisi Grand Slam in Georgia in March, at 20 years old.[https://www-ynet-co-il.translate.goog/sport/article/syg5tes06?_x_tr_sl=iw&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc&_x_tr_hist=true "First career medal: Yam Volchak won silver at the Tbilisi Grand Slam,"] Ynet. He was selected to represent Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |title=Israel's delegation to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games |url=https://wingate.org.il/משלחת-ישראל-למשחקים-האולימפיים-פריז-2024 |website=Wingate Institute |access-date=26 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626074302/https://wingate.org.il/משלחת-ישראל-למשחקים-האולימפיים-פריז-2024 |archive-date=26 June 2024 |language=he |date=25 June 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Aharoni |first1=Oren |title="We want to win Olympic medals": Israel's judo teams are preparing for the Paris Olympics |url=https://www.israelhayom.co.il/sport/other-sports/article/15922625 |access-date=26 June 2024 |work=Israel Hayom |date=16 June 2024 |language=he}}
=2024 Paris Olympics=
Wolczak represented Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics in judo. In the men's 60 kg event he came in 9th, as in the first round he beat Arnold Kisoka from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1:17, 10-0, but in the round of 16 he was defeated by 2024 world champion Giorgi Sardalashvili of Georgia in 2:42, 11-0. In the mixed team event, Team Israel also came in 9th.[https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/JUD/OG2024_JUD_C73I_JUDM60KG--------------R32-001000--.pdf "Contest Results,"] olympics.com, 27 July 2024.[https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/olympic-judo-results-19601105.php "Olympic Judo Results,"] Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 27, 2024.[https://english.news.cn/20240728/9249885b180e4df4b9a131ab475e7e21/c.html "Olympics | Classification of 60kg men's judo at Paris Olympics,"] Xinhua, 28 July 2024.
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Category:Jewish Israeli sportspeople
Category:Judoka at the 2024 Summer Olympics