# Rotem Gafinovitz

Rotem Gafinovitz (Hebrew: רותם גפינוביץ'; born 9 June 1992) is an Israeli road cyclist, who rides for Hess Cycling Team. She participated at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships. Through May 2024, she had won six UCI races in her career, and had won the Israeli national time trial championships in road cycling four times. Gafinovitz represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in cycling in the Women's individual road race.

## Early and personal life

Gafinovitz was born in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut, Israel. She is 1.63 meters (5 ft 4 in) tall, and weighs 52 kilograms (115 lb).

## Cycling career

Gafinovitz rides for Hess Cycling Team.

### 2015–23

Gafinovitz won the gold medal in the Israeli National Road Race Championships in 2015, and won the Israeli National Time Trial Championships in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2023.
In September 2016, Gafinovitz was announced as part of the WM3 Pro Cycling squad for 2017.
Gafinovitz won the Tour of Arava in 2019. That year she was also sixth in the GC Gracia–Orlová. At the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus, she came in 9th in the Women's road time trial, and at the 2022 European Road Championships in Munich, Germany, she came in 18th in the Women's time trial.
Gafinovitz was 2nd in the Regiónom Nitrianskeho Kraja in Slovakia in 2023. She was 3rd in the GP of the Mayor of the city Žiar nad Hronom in Slovakia in 2023.

### 2024–present

Through May 2024, Gafinovitz had won six UCI races in her career.

#### 2024 Summer Olympics

Gafinovitz represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in cycling in the Women's individual 158 kilometer road race. She said:
   The Olympic Games have been my dream since I was 17, and this ticket to it is the proof for me that even if it takes time, one has to go on and not give up. This is true in sports, and it is doubly true in the current struggle for the return of the abducted in Gaza.
Gafinovitz cycled ahead of the pack for much of the early part of the race, but she was later caught by the peloton and fell to 77th place out of 93 riders where she finished, with a time of 4:13:42.

## Major results

Source:

### Road
#### 2010

    National Junior Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial

#### 2011

    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

#### 2012

    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial

#### 2013

    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial

#### 2015

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       2nd Time trial

#### 2016

    2nd Road race, National Road Championships

#### 2017

    2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

#### 2018

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race

#### 2019

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    1st Tour of Arava
    6th Overall Gracia–Orlová
    9th Time trial, European Games

#### 2021

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race

#### 2022

    National Road Championships
       2nd Time trial
       3rd Road race

### Mountain biking
#### 2014

    2nd Cross-country, National Mountain Bike Championships
    2nd Salamina Mountain bike
    3rd Ma'alot Mountain bike
    3rd Malmédy Mountain bike

#### 2015

    National Mountain Bike Championships
       1st Cross-country
       3rd Marathon
    1st Ein HaShofet Mountain bike
    1st Mishmar Ha'Emeq Mountain bike
    1st Kiryat-Ata Mountain bike
    2nd Mishmar Ha'Emeq Mountain bike
    2nd Haifa Mountain bike (a)
    3rd Haifa Mountain bike (b)