# Itamar Einhorn

Itamar Einhorn (איתמר איינהורן; born 20 September 1997) is an Israeli cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Israel–Premier Tech. 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 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) tall, and weighs 72 kg (159 lb). 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 Israel–Premier Tech.
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.
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. 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

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2021 |
| Giro d'Italia | — |
| Tour de France | — |
| Vuelta a España | DNF |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |