Maor Tiyouri

Maor Tiyouri (; born 13 August 1990) is an Israeli Olympic long-distance runner, former national record holder of Israel in the 5000 metres, and a six-time Israeli national champion – in the 1500 m (three times), the 3000 m, the 5,000 m, and the 10,000 m. She competed for Israel in the marathon in both the 2016 Olympic Games and the 2020 Olympic Games. Tiyouri represented Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Women's marathon, coming in 49th.

Early life Tiyouri is a native of Kfar Saba, Israel, and is Jewish. Her parents are Gideon (formerly a long-distance runner) and Irit Tiyouri (an administrative assistant at Tel Aviv University), and she has two younger brothers. She attended Yitzhak Sadeh School, and Galili High School. She is tall, and weighs .

College After finishing her two years of military service at 20 years of age, Tiyouri studied on scholarship for four years at the University of San Francisco, majoring in Exercise and Sport Science. She competed with the San Francisco Dons as a member of four consecutive West Coast Conference (WCC) cross country champion teams, made two trips to the NCAA Cross Country Championships with the team, and made two 10,000-meter semifinal appearances. She was First Team All-West Coast Conference in 2010, 2011, and 2013, and All-West Coast Conference Honorable Mention in 2012.

She became the second Olympian, following Haley Nemra who represented the Marshall Islands in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games in the women's 800 meters, to come out of the university's track & field team coached by Helen Lehman-Winters.

Maccabiah Games Tiyouri was the silver medalist in the 1500 m and a bronze medalist in the 800 m at the 2009 Maccabiah Games. She was then a silver medalist in the 3000 m at the 2013 Maccabiah Games.

Israeli championships and records Tiyouri is a six-time Israeli national champion. She won the Israeli championship in 2005 in the 3000 m, in 2010 in the 10,000 m, in 2011 in the 1500 m, in 2013 in the 1500 m and 5000 m, and in 2015 in the 1500 m. Tiyouri is also the Israeli record holder in the 5000 m, with a time of 16:08.83 set at the 2015 Mt. SAC Relays.

On 29 May 2016, she finished the Ottawa Marathon in Canada, her first-ever marathon, with a time of 2:42:20 hours, and placed 7th.

2017; World Championships Tiyouri qualified to represent Israel at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics in the 2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's marathon in London where she placed 63rd in a time of 2:49:45.

2018-20; Injuries and half marathon personal best In 2018–20, she suffered a series of injuries that kept her from running for almost two years. Among them were pain in her foot and ankle due to an injury, a stress fracture in the metatarsal bone in her right foot, a herniated disc in her back, and a hamstring injury.

In October 2020 in Gdynia, Poland, Tiyouri ran a personal best half marathon time of 1:12:27. With that, she qualified for the Tokyo Olympics.

In October 2023, nine days after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, she ran in the Great 10K Berlin in Germany, and came in fifth with a time of 34:11 minutes. She said: "The whole last week since the terrible Saturday has been really difficult emotionally, mentally, and physically in light of the horrors we experienced. It directly puts sports in perspective. Somewhere the thought of sports feels absurd when our country is at war, and when we are trying to digest the dimensions of hell. I was really confused Whether to compete or not, but after several conversations with family, very close friends. and the athletics association, I decided that I should compete because this is my way to represent the Israeli people, to be an ambassador and to contribute to the overall effort. To show everyone that we are strong and not going anywhere." Tiyouri placed 48th out of 91 women in Sapporo at Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's marathon and she finished with a time of 2:37:52. She said: "I felt that we, as a team, got to commemorate the Israeli Olympic delegation of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, where 11 Israeli athletes lost their lives in a terrorist attack, and showing everybody that even 44 years later, we are still here."

Tiyouri represented Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan in the hot (the temperature hit the high 80s) and intensely humid women's marathon. She came in 48th out of 88 runners, beating 30 women who were ranked ahead of her going into the race, with a time of 2:37:52, as the gold medal was won by Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir with a time of 2:27.20. She said: "In these difficult days, I am very proud to continue representing the State of Israel."