Ron Polonsky

Ron Polonsky (; born 28 March 2001) is an Israeli Olympic swimmer. He won silver medals in the 2019 European Junior Championships and the 2023 European U-23 Championships, as well as the gold medal in the 2024 European Aquatics Championships, in the 200m IM. He also competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and won the silver medal in the 2024 NCAA Division I Championships in the 100 Y Breast. Polonsky represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the 200 metre individual medley and the Mixed 4×100 metre medley relay.

Early and personal life Polonsky was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, and is Jewish. His parents, Anna and Oleg, are computer science engineers. He was a ballroom dancer and practiced judo as a young child. In April 2019 at the ATUS Trophy 2019 in Graz, Austria, he won a gold medal in the 200m Medley (1:59.67). In June 2019 at the Israel Trials he won the silver medal in the 200m Breaststroke (2:19.85). In August 2019 at the 7th FINA World Junior Championship in Budapest, Hungary, he came in fourth in the 200 L IM (1:59.84).

2021–23 In April 2021 at the Malmsten Swim Open Stockholm in Sweden, Polonsky won a silver medal in the Men Freestyle Relay in a time of 3:20.28, and a bronze medal in the 400 L IM in a time of 4:21.83. He swims for the Stanford swim team.