Tohar Butbul

Tohar Butbul
Butbul in 2017
Personal information
Native nameטוהר בוטבול
NationalityIsraeli
Born (1994-01-24) 24 January 1994
Tzoran, Israel
OccupationJudoka
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
CountryIsrael
SportJudo
Weight class73 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 TokyoMixed team
European Championships
2021 Lisbon73 kg
World Masters
2019 Qingdao73 kg
IJF Grand Slam
2019 Baku73 kg
2017 Paris73 kg
2017 Abu Dhabi73 kg
2018 Düsseldorf73 kg
2021 Tel Aviv73 kg
2022 Tel Aviv73 kg
2022 Ulaanbaatar73 kg
2022 Budapest73 kg
2024 Tbilisi73 kg
IJF Grand Prix
2019 Zagreb73 kg
2023 Linz73 kg
2017 Cancún73 kg
2017 Antalya73 kg
2018 Zagreb73 kg
2019 Tel Aviv73 kg
European U23 Championships
2016 Tel Aviv73 kg
European Junior Championships
2014 Bucharest73 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.