Anat Lelior

Anat Lelior was born in 2000 in Tel Aviv

Anat Lelior was born on April 29, 2000, in Tel Aviv. Her mother, Eti Jacobi, is a painter and art teacher, and her father, Yochai Lelior, runs a company offering guidance and rescue services for travelers. She has a brother, Ido, and a sister, Noa, who is also a surfer.

She started surfing at 5, when her father took her into the sea off Tel Aviv. She attended Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium and later served in the IDF for 2 years.

She won her first Israeli women's title at 12. In 2018 she was runner-up in the WSL Europe Pro Junior, and in 2019 she won the Deeply Pro Anglet in France. She qualified for Tokyo through the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games in Japan.

At the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021 she surfed with a hip injury and finished 17th. Hip surgery and an ankle injury followed, and she returned to activity in 2023. She won gold at the 2022 Maccabiah Games and placed ninth at the 2024 Paris Olympics in Tahiti.