Tohar Butbul

Tohar Butbul
Butbul in 2017
Personal information
Native name
טוהר בוטבול
NationalityIsraeli
Born (1994-01-24) 24 January 1994
OccupationJudoka
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
CountryIsrael
SportJudo
Weight class‍–‍73 kg
Rank     5th dan black belt
Coached byOren Smadja
Retired27 February 2025
Achievements and titles
Olympic Games7th (2020)
World Champ.5th (2022)
European Champ. (2021)
Highest world ranking4th
Medal record
Men's judo
Representing  Israel
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo Mixed team
European Championships
2021 Lisbon ‍–‍73 kg
World Masters
2019 Qingdao ‍–‍73 kg
IJF Grand Slam
2019 Baku ‍–‍73 kg
2017 Paris ‍–‍73 kg
2017 Abu Dhabi ‍–‍73 kg
2018 Düsseldorf ‍–‍73 kg
2021 Tel Aviv ‍–‍73 kg
2022 Tel Aviv ‍–‍73 kg
2022 Ulaanbaatar ‍–‍73 kg
2022 Budapest ‍–‍73 kg
2024 Tbilisi ‍–‍73 kg
IJF Grand Prix
2019 Zagreb ‍–‍73 kg
2023 Linz ‍–‍73 kg
2017 Cancún ‍–‍73 kg
2017 Antalya ‍–‍73 kg
2018 Zagreb ‍–‍73 kg
2019 Tel Aviv ‍–‍73 kg
European U23 Championships
2016 Tel Aviv ‍–‍73 kg
European Junior Championships
2014 Bucharest ‍–‍73 kg
Profile at external databases
IJF16638
JudoInside.com85104
Updated on 4 May 2025

Tohar Butbul (Hebrew: טוהר בוטבול; born 24 January 1994) is an Israeli retired Olympic judoka. He competes in the under 73 kg weight category, where he won silver medals at the 2019 World Masters and the 2021 European Championships, and won bronze medals in the 2017 Paris Grand Slam and 2017 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam. As of March 2018 he was ranked #9 in the world in the 73 kg division. He was a member of the Israeli team that won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Butbul represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in judo in the men's 73 kg event in which he came in ninth, and in the mixed team event, in which Team Israel came in ninth.