2011-16 In 2011, Flicker won the gold medal at the European Cup Under-20 in Paks, Hungary. He has won Israeli championships in 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015. On 1 June 2013, Flicker won his first international contest as a senior after defeating Ivan Spirin from Russia in the final of the European Open Bucharest. On 12 September, he won a bronze medal in
2014 Zagreb Grand Prix, his first medal in a Grand Prix. In 2015 he won the European Open in Rome, and won bronze at the
2015 Jeju Grand Prix, South Korea. He then won bronze at the
2016 Zagreb Grand Prix.
2017-present On 10 March, Flicker won the gold medal at the
2017 Baku Grand Slam, and won bronze at the
2017 Düsseldorf Grand Prix. On 29 August, Flicker won a bronze medal at the
2017 World Championships in
men's 66 kg in Budapest, Hungary. He followed in the footsteps of fellow Israeli
Golan Pollack, who won a World Championships bronze medal in the U66 category as well, two years prior. The
International Judo Federation (IJF) had sent a letter to the President of the United Arab Emirates Judo Federation that instructed: "all delegations, including the Israeli delegation, shall be treated absolutely equally in all aspects, without any exception," and that the IJF statutes "clearly provide that the IJF shall not discriminate on the ground of race, religion, gender or political opinion." However, despite Ficker's win, and against the explicit instructions of the International Judo Federation, as they had done in the same event two years prior, tournament organizers in
Abu Dhabi refused to fly the
Israeli flag or play the
Israeli national anthem, despite the fact that it is customary to play the medalist's national anthem. In addition, instead of having "ISR" by his name on the scoreboard and on his back to denote that he was competing for Israel, at the insistence of the organizers "IJF" (for the International Judo Federation) was substituted. Oren Smadja said, after Flicker's victory: "I am very happy to be here - with a flag, without a flag ... to prove to everyone that it is impossible to stop the State of Israel." ==Titles==