Bar Soloveychik

Bar Soloveychik (; born August 15, 2000) is an Israeli swimmer. He holds the Israeli national records in both the 400m freestyle, and the 800m free. At the 2018 European Junior Swimming Championships, he won a gold medal as part of Israel's freestyle relay. He attends the University of Minnesota, where he has swum sprint, mid-distance, and distance events, and holds school records in the 200 free and 500 free. He won a gold medal at the 2022 Maccabiah Games in the 400 m freestyle. He competes in freestyle and open water. Soloveychik represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Men's 4×200 metre freestyle relay.

Early life His parents are Anatoly and Marina Soloveychik, and he is a native of Kiryat Motzkin, Israel, outside of Haifa. His parents emigrated from the Donbas region of Ukraine to Israel in 1999, and he was born in Israel two years later.

2017–20 He competed at the 2017 European Junior Swimming Championships.

At the 2019 Israeli Short Course Championships, Soloveychik won a bronze medal in the 400 freestyle (3:47.82), and a silver medal in the 1,500 freestyle (15:14.13). At the Swim Cup Amsterdam meet, he took 4th place in the 400 and 1,500 freestyles (3:53.94 and 15:34.87 respectively), and 5th place in the 800 LCM freestyle (8:08.00).

2021–22 Soloveychik placed first in the 800m free (7:55.48), and third in the 200m free (1:48.63), at the 2021 Israeli National Summer Championships in June. At his NCAA Championships debut at the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, Soloveychik placed 13th in the 500 free (4:13.51), 41st in the 200 free (1:34.32), and set the school record in the 500 free prelims (4:12.76). He was also part of the 800 free relay that placed fifth (6:22.25), leading off with a school record 1:33.56 in the 200 free. He was named 2022 Honorable Mention All-American.

2023–present In his sophomore season at Minnesota in 2022-23, at the Big Ten championships he came in second in the 500 free (4:14.45) and the 1650 free (14:50.93). He was named a CSC Academic All-District honoree, an Academic All-Big Ten honoree, and a CSCAA First Team Scholar All-American.

In his junior season in 2023-24, at the Big Ten championships he came in second in both the 500 free (4:11.49) and the 1650 free (14:45.59). He is the second Minnesota Gopher male ever to swim for Israel at the Olympics, joining Yoav Meiri who did so in 2000.