Eran Groumi

Israeli swimmer

Eran Cohen Groumi (; born June 5, 1970, in Jerusalem) is a male former backstroke and butterfly swimmer from Israel who set Israeli records in both strokes. His nephew is Israeli Olympic swimmer Gal Cohen Groumi.

In his early career, at 18 in May of 1989, at the Canada Cup at the Vancouver Aquatic Center, he took first place in the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 59.99. He would significantly reduce his time in later competition.

Groumi competed for Israel at the 1989 Maccabiah Games, winning the 100 m and 200 m butterfly. He set the Israeli record in the 200 m butterfly with his time of 2:04.8. At the 2017 Maccabiah Games, in the special 4x50m relay race between Israeli and American all star teams, American Olympic champions Lenny Krayzelburg (four Olympic golds), Jason Lezak (four Olympic golds), and Anthony Ervin (three Olympic golds), with masters swimmer Alex Blavatnik, swam a time of 1:48.23 and defeated Israeli Olympians Groumi, Guy Barnea, Yoav Bruck, and Tal Stricker, who had a time of 1:51.25.

In the most publicized event of his career, Groumi competed for Israel at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain in July. He placed 37th in the 200 Backstroke with a time of 2:07.91 in Heat 2. He was scheduled but did not start the 200 IM. He also placed 28th in the 100 meter Backstroke with a time of 57.67, and 20th in the 100 meter Butterfly with a time of 55.18. He did not make the finals in any event.

Despite being of Israeli nationality he competed at the ASA National British Championships (Amateur Swimming Association) in Leeds and won the 50 metres backstroke, with a time of 27.45, the 100 metres backstroke with a time of 59.16, and the 100 metres butterfly with a time of 55.74 in 1996.

Notably, Eran set a new Israeli record of 25.13 in the 50 meter butterfly, and new Israeli record of 54.48 in the 100 meter butterfly, in the 1997 European Championships, though he would improve on these times in later competition. His Israeli team placed seventh in the 4x100 Metre medley relay at the 1999 FINA Worlds. In 2000 he finished third in the 50 and 100 Meter butterfly in the Israel Winter Swimming Championships, and had previously competed in both events in 1999 as well.