Ziv Kalontarov

Ziv Kalontarov

Personal information
Nickname	Zu
Nationality	Israeli
Born	(1997-01-15) 15 January 1997 (age 27) Rishon LeZion, Israel
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	50 m and 100 m freestyle
Coach	Gary Kalontarov
Medal record Swimming Representing  Israel European Games 2015 Baku 50 m freestyle

Ziv Kalontarov (also "Kalontorov", "Kaluntarov", and "Kalntrov"; Hebrew: זיו קלונטרוב; born 15 January 1997) is an Israeli Olympic swimmer and the reigning European Games champion in the 50 m freestyle.^[2]

In April 2015, Kalontarov won the International School Sport Federation (ISF) Swimming World Schools Championship in both the 50 m freestyle (in 22.39) and the 100 m freestyle (in 50.49) in Poznań, Poland. At the age of 18 representing Israel at the 2015 European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan, he won a gold medal with a European Games record time of 22.16 in the 50 m freestyle and thereby won the European Junior Swimming Championships, on 27 June 2015. His time in the final established a new senior Israeli national swimming record in the 50 m freestyle. It qualified him to represent Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.