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Itamar Einhorn
איתמר איינהורן
	Itamar Einhorn (2022)
Personal information
Born	20 September 1997 (age 27); Modi'in, Israel
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current team	Israel–Premier Tech
Discipline	Road bicycle racing
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur teams
2016	Vérandas Willems–Crabbe–CC Chevigny
2017–2018	Israel Cycling Academy Development
Professional teams
2017	Israel Cycling Academy (stagiaire)
2018	Israel Cycling Academy (stagiaire)
2019–	Israel Cycling Academy
Major wins
	Single-day races and Classics Israeli National Road Race Championships (2022, 2023)

Itamar Einhorn (איתמר איינהורן; born 20 September 1997) is an Israeli cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Israel–Premier Tech.^[4] In 2022 and 2023, he won the Israeli National Road Race Championships. Einhorn represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in cycling in the Men's individual road race at Pont d'Iéna.

Early and personal life

Einhorn was born in Modi'in, Israel.^[5] He is 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, and weighs 72 kg (159 lb).^[5] He speaks both Hebrew and English.^[6] Asked whether he enjoys cycling despite the demands and difficulties of the sport, he said: "I'm living the dream.... I am fulfilling my childhood dream."^[7]

Cycling career

Early years

Einhorn followed his brother Ben, four years older than he is and himself a fourth-place finisher in the 2013 Israeli National Championships, into cycling.^[8]^[9] He first rode mountain bikes, and then switched to road racing in 2013.^[9] In 2014, he won the junior Israeli national championship in road racing, in Hadera, Israel.^[10]

From 2017 to 2019 he rode for Israel Premier Tech Academy.^[11] He currently rides for UCI ProTeam Israel–Premier Tech.^[4]

In the 2020 edition of Tour Colombia Einhorn finished 3rd on stage 2 becoming the first Israeli to finish on the podium in a UCI sanctioned race.^[12]^[13]

In the 2021 edition of the Okolo Slovenska in Slovakia, Einhorn won stage 4 becoming the first Israeli to ever win a UCI Europe Tour stage.^[14]

2022–23; National championships

In August 2022, Einhorn came in 13th out of 141 cyclists in the 2022 European Road Championships – Men's road race in Munich, Germany.^[15]

In 2022 and 2023, Einhorn won the Israeli National Road Race Championships.^[10]^[16]

On October 9, 2023, two days after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Einhorn came in second in the last stage of the 2023 Tour of Hainan.^[17] He said: "I’ve never felt like this before. Of course, I wanted to win. But I didn’t feel anything. There was neither the sting of missing the victory nor a trace of satisfaction from finishing second. The utter sense of triviality weighed heavily on me, knowing that while I raced thousands of kilometers away, my homeland was engulfed in a horrific act of terror and slaughter."^[17]

2024–present; Olympic Games

In 2024 through May, Einhorn had four wins in the Tour du Rwanda and the Tour de Taiwan, matching his total for all of 2023, and in his career had won 13 UCI races.^[18]

2024 Summer Olympics

Einhorn represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in cycling in the Men's individual road race at Pont d'Iéna, and came in 62nd.^[19]^[20]^[21] The race consisted of a challenging 270-kilometer hilly course, with a very small peloton of approximately 85 riders.^[22] He said: "For me, representing Israel in the Olympics is a message of a nation aspiring for peace."^[21]