Rotem Gafinovitz

Rotem Gafinovitz was born in 1992 in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut

Rotem Gafinovitz was born on 9 June 1992 in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut and grew up in Modi'in. She began racing at age 10, first with the Matzman-Discount team and later with the 500 Watt team under coach Ilan Ulman.

In 2010, 2011 and 2012 she spent part of each season racing for youth teams in Belgium. In 2012 she rode for Israel at the UCI Road World Championships in the Netherlands. In 2013 she joined the Belgian team Topsport Vlaanderen and began training in Israel with the IGP team.

She won the Israeli road race title in 2015 and the national time trial title several times from 2018 on. She rode for the Dutch team WM3 in 2017 and 2018, for Canyon-SRAM in 2019 and 2020, and later for other European teams including Hess Cycling Team. In 2019 she won the Tour of Arava and placed 9th in the time trial at the European Games in Minsk.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics she rode in an early breakaway in the women's road race. The group was caught by the peloton, and she finished in 77th place.