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Efraim Barak

Arbitrator in 5 published cases before CAS tribunals, in football; player employment contract, skiing and snowboarding; olympic and paralympic eligibility, gymnastics; anti-doping (meldonium) disputes.

CAS Football; player employment contract, Skiing and snowboarding; Olympic and Paralympic eligibility, Gymnastics; anti-doping (meldonium)

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Overview

In the published awards, Efraim Barak has been appointed by claimants 3 times and by respondents 1 times, and has presided or sat alone in 0 cases. Of the party appointments, 0 came from States and 4 from investors or companies.

Outcome for the appointing side, where the published decision is clear: claimant prevailed in 33% of the 3 claimant appointments; respondent prevailed in 50% of the 1 respondent appointments. Mixed outcomes count as half.

Appointed most often by: Mohamed Katir (1), Russian Ski Association (RSF) (1), Saveliy Korostelev (1), Lana Prusakova (1), Maria Travinicheva (1).

5Published cases
0As chair or sole arbitrator
4Party appointments
0Dissents recorded

Track record

YearCaseRoleAppointed byInstitution / rulesSectorAward
2025 Russian Ski Association (RSF), Saveliy Korostelev, Lana Prusakova, Maria Travinicheva, Artiom Galunin, Ekatarina Tkachenko, Daniil Sadreev, Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC), Alexey Bugaev, Varvara Voronchikhina, Anastasiia Bagiian, Ivan Golubkov, Polina Co-arbitrator Claimant CAS Skiing and snowboarding; Olympic and Paralympic eligibility Read award →
2025 Mohamed Katir v. World Athletics; World Athletics v. Mohamed Katir Co-arbitrator Claimant CAS — Read award →
2023 Boluspor KD v. Haris Hajdarevic, FK Zeljeznicar Co-arbitrator Claimant CAS Football; player employment contract Read award →
2023 Al-Faisaly Football Club v. Alexander Merkel, Gazisehir Futbol Kulübü (GFK) A.S. Co-arbitrator Respondent CAS Football; player employment contract Read award →
2023 Oleg Verniaiev v. Gymnastics Ethics Foundation (GEF), Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG) Co-arbitrator — CAS · Lausanne Gymnastics; anti-doping (meldonium) Read award →

Expertise

The legal issues and sectors decided most often in the published awards. Each links to the cases in the database.

doping 2proportionality 2football 2FIFA RSTP 2just cause 2termination of employment contract 2anti-doping 1World Athletics 1Athletics Integrity Unit 1AIU 1whereabouts failure 1missed test 1tampering 1falsified documents 1period of ineligibility 1four-year ban 1aggravating circumstances 1disqualification of results 1fairness exception 1athletics 1Russian athletes 1Individual Neutral Athletes 1AIN 1Milano Cortina 2026 1

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