[3] In 2016, he won the gold medal in the 2016 European Taekwondo Olympic Qualification Tournament, in Istanbul, Turkey, over silver medalist Jesús Tortosa of Spain, who was world junior champion in 2014 in the under 51 kg division.

[4] That year Atias also won a silver medal in the under-58 kilogram event at the 2016 European Taekwondo Championships, which was held in Montreux, Switzerland, losing in the finals to world No.

[6] Atias represented Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics on August 17 in taekwondo in the under-58 kilogram category.

[7][8] Atias is the first-ever Israeli male taekwondo athlete to compete in the Olympics.

[4] Former female Olympic taekwondo competitors for Israel were Maya Arusi (Athens, 2004) and Bat-El Gaterer (Beijing, 2008).