Itamar Einhorn (; born 20 September 1997) is an Israeli cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . 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. He is tall, and weighs . He speaks both Hebrew and English. 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."
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. He first rode mountain bikes, and then switched to road racing in 2013. In 2014, he won the junior Israeli national championship in road racing, in Hadera, Israel.
From 2017 to 2019 he rode for Israel Premier Tech Academy. He currently rides for UCI ProTeam .
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.
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.
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."2022 European Championships"
In 2022 and 2023, Einhorn won the Israeli National Road Race Championships.
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. 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."
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.
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."Reuveny captures gold, Kantor & Dolgopyat silver in banner day for Israel," Sports Rabbi. The race consisted of a challenging 270-kilometer hilly course, with a very small peloton of approximately 85 riders. He said: "For me, representing Israel in the Olympics is a message of a nation aspiring for peace."
Major results
2014 National Junior Road Championships 1st Time trial 3rd Road race 2017 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 2020 3rd Overall Course de Solidarność et des Champions Olympiques 1st Stage 1 9th Scheldeprijs 2021 (1 pro win) 1st GP Polski 1st Stage 4 Okolo Slovenska 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 2022 (1) 1st Road race, National Road Championships 1st Grand Prix Wyszków 3rd GP Polski 4th Münsterland Giro 9th Grand Prix Nasielsk-Serock 10th Puchar MON 2023 (2) 1st Road race, National Road Championships 1st GP Polski 1st Memoriał Andrzeja Trochanowskiego 1st Stage 1 Czech Tour 4th Milano–Torino 9th Scheldeprijs 9th Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré 9th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen 2024 (4) Tour du Rwanda 1st Stages 2 & 7 Tour de Taiwan 1st Stages 1 & 5 6th Veenendaal–Veenendaal 8th Elfstedenronde 2025 (1) 1st Stage 4 Tour de Taiwan 3rd Rund um Köln 2026 (2) Tour du Rwanda 1st Stages 1 & 6 8th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2021 Giro d'Italia— Tour de France— Vuelta a EspañaDNF
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
See also Henry Ohayon, Israeli Olympic individual road race cyclist Itzhak Ben David, Israeli Olympic individual road race cyclist
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