Benjamin Thomas (born 12 September 1995) is a French professional road and

track Track or Tracks may refer to: Routes or imprints * Ancient trackway, any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity * Animal track, imprints left on surfaces that an animal walks across * Desire path, a line worn by people taking the shorte ...

cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He rode at the

2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling in 2015. They took place in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (part of the Paris Metropolitan Area) at the Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines from 18� ...

. In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the

2018 Vuelta a España The 2018 Vuelta a España was a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race that took place in Spain between 25 August and 16 September 2018. The race was the 73rd edition of the Vuelta a España and was the final Grand Tour of the 2018 cycling seas ...

. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the

2020 Giro d'Italia The 2020 Giro d'Italia was a road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race that took place between 3 and 25 October, after initially being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was originally to have taken place from 9 to 31 May 2020, as the ...

. 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."

Major results

Track

;2016 : UEC European Championships ::1st European champion jersey 2016

Team pursuit ::2nd Silver medal europe

Madison (with

Morgan Kneisky Morgan Kneisky (born 31 August 1987) is a French former track and road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2020 for the , , and squads. Kneisky is a four-time UCI Track Cycling World Championships gold medallist, winning gol ...

) ::3rd

Omnium : 2nd Silver medal blank

Madison (with

), UCI World Championships ;2017 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Madison (with

) ::1st

Omnium : UEC European Championships ::1st European champion jersey 2016

Madison (with Florian Maitre) ::1st European champion jersey 2016

Team pursuit ::3rd Bronze medal europe

Omnium :

UCI World Cup The UCI World Cups are the World Cups for cycling disciplines organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale: * UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004) * UCI Women's Road World Cup (1998–2015) * UCI Mountain Bike World Cup * UCI Track Cycling World Cup ...

, Manchester ::1st Omnium ::2nd Madison ::3rd Team pursuit : 1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with

) : 2nd Six Days of Ghent (with

) ;2018 : 1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with

) ;2019 : 1st European champion jersey 2016

Omnium, UEC European Championships : 2nd Silver medal blank

Omnium, UCI World Championships ;2020 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Omnium, UCI World Championships ;2021 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Points race ::2nd Silver medal blank

Team pursuit : 1st European champion jersey 2016

Points race, UEC European Championships : 3rd Bronze medal olympic

Madison (with

Donavan Grondin Donavan Grondin (born 26 September 2000) is a French racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Major results Track ;2017 : National Junior Championships ::1st Madison ::2nd Elimination race ::3rd Team pursuit ;2019 : National Cha ...

), Olympic Games ;2022 : UCI World Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Madison (with

) ::2nd

Omnium ;2023 : UEC European Championships ::1st European champion jersey 2016

Omnium ::3rd Bronze medal europe

Madison (with

) ::3rd

Team pursuit

Road

;2017 : 1st Stage 3

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been h ...

: 3rd Overall Tour de Wallonie ::1st Jersey red

Young rider classification ::1st Stage 1 : 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg : 4th Overall

Tour du Poitou-Charentes Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a road bicycle race held annually in the former region of Poitou-Charentes (now Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France. It was first held in 1987 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Eu ...

: 4th Road race, National Under-23 Championships : 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 4th Ronde van Limburg : 9th Boucles de l'Aulne ;2018 : 1st Jersey white

Young rider classification, Étoile de Bessèges : 3rd Time trial, National Championships ;2019 : 1st MaillotFra

Time trial, National Championships : 6th Tour du Finistère ;2020 : 2nd Time trial, National Championships : 6th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine ;2021 : 1st MaillotFra

Time trial, National Championships ;2022 : 1st Jersey salmon

Overall Étoile de Bessèges ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Boucles de la Mayenne ::1st Stage 2 : National Championships ::3rd Time trial ::5th Road race : 4th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine : 5th Tour du Doubs : 8th Overall Tour de Luxembourg : 8th Bretagne Classic

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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* * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, Benjamin 1995 births Living people French male cyclists French track cyclists Olympic cyclists of France Olympic bronze medalists for France Olympic medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) People from Lavaur, Tarn Sportspeople from Tarn (department) Cyclists from Occitania (administrative region)