Benjamin Thomas (born 12 September 1995) is a French professional road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis.[6]
He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.[7] In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Vuelta a España.[8] In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Giro d'Italia.[9]
He rode the Tour de France for the first time in 2022. On stage 15, Thomas broke away from the Peloton and was attempting to get the first French win in over thirty stages, but was caught inside the final few hundred meters. After the stage he commented, "I believed I could make it. If we could have stayed together with Alexis maybe it would have been different… I'm completely dead, I'm seeing stars. I was not thinking anymore."[10]
Major resultsEdit
TrackEdit
- 2016
- UEC European Track Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd Madison (with Morgan Kneisky)
- 3rd Omnium
- 2nd Madison (with Morgan Kneisky), UCI Track World Championships
- 2017
- UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Madison (with Morgan Kneisky)
- 1st Omnium
- UEC European Track Championships
- 1st Madison (with Florian Maitre)
- 1st Team pursuit
- 3rd Omnium
- UCI Track World Cup
- 1st Omnium – Manchester
- 2nd Madison – Manchester
- 3rd Team pursuit – Manchester
- 1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with Morgan Kneisky)
- 2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Morgan Kneisky)
- 2018
- 1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with Morgan Kneisky)
- 2019
- 1st Omnium, UEC European Track Championships
- 2nd Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
- 2020
- 1st Omnium, UCI Track World Championships
- 2021
- UCI Track World Championships
- 1st Points race
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 1st Points race, UEC European Track Championships
- 3rd Madison (with Donavan Grondin), Olympic Games
RoadEdit
- 2017
- 1st Stage 3 Four Days of Dunkirk
- 3rd Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 4th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 4th Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 4th Ronde van Limburg
- 9th Boucles de l'Aulne
- 2018
- 1st Young rider classification, Étoile de Bessèges
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2019
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 6th Tour du Finistère
- 2020
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 6th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- 2021
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2022
- 1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
- 1st Stage 2
- National Road Championships
- 3rd Time trial
- 5th Road race
Grand Tour general classification results timelineEdit
Grand Tour | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Giro d'Italia | — | — | DNF | — | — |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | IP |
Vuelta a España | 121 | DNF | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
---|---|
DNF | Did not finish |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ "FDJ sign track rider Benjamin Thomas". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 25 August 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ "Equipe Cycliste Armée de Terre 2015". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
- ^ "Groupama-FDJ confirm 28 riders for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ "Groupama – FDJ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Groupama – FDJ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Cofidis". UCI. Archived from the original on 28 January 2022. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ "En try List: Men" (PDF). UCI. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- ^ "2018: 73rd Vuelta a España: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
- ^ "103rd Giro d'Italia: Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
- ^ Reports, Newswire (17 July 2022). "Tour de France: Belgium's Jasper Philipsen wins stage 15, Vingegaard retains lead despite crash". France 24. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
External linksEdit
- Benjamin Thomas at Cycling Archives
- Benjamin Thomas at ProCyclingStats
- Benjamin Thomas at Cycling Quotient
- Benjamin Thomas at CycleBase
- Benjamin Thomas at Olympedia
- Benjamin Thomas at UCI