Yair Davidovitz


Yair Davidovitz is an Israeli former Olympic sport shooter, and in 1984 matched the world record of a perfect score of 400 in the Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres.
He was born in Israel, and is Jewish.

Shooting career

His club was Hapoel Ashkelon. He was trained by Shlomo Goldstein, of Israel's 1972 Olympic team. In April 1984, he matched the world record for 40 shots in a prone position, scoring the maximum 400 points, in an intentional open tournament in Mexico.
He competed for Israel at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, in sport shooting at the age of 39. In Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Prone, 50 metres, he came in 23rd, in Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 metres, he came in 46th, and in Men's Air Rifle, 10 metres, he did not finish. When he competed in the Olympics he was 5-8.5 tall, and weighed 154 lbs. Yitzhak Yonassi, his former pupil, also competed in the same Olympic Games.
As of 2015, he was an International Shooting Sport Federation technical delegate. He was slated to supervise an event in Kuwait for the ISSF in 2015. Kuwait rejected the Israeli's visa for the 2015 Asian Shooting Championships which was originally the tournament that would offer Asian quotas for the 2016 Rio Olympics, and he was backed by the International Olympic Committee and the ISSF, and the qualifiers were moved to New Delhi, India. The IOC said:
"The decision comes after the designated technical delegate from the ISSF, Yair Davidovich, who was due to supervise the event on behalf of the ISSF, was denied a visa by the Kuwaiti Immigration Department. The denial of a visa is against the non-discrimination principle of the Olympic Charter."