Benjamin Thomas

Benjamin Thomas (born 12 September 1995) is a French professional road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .

He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. In August 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Vuelta a España. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Giro d'Italia.

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 Road

2017 (2 pro wins) 1st Stage 3 Four Days of Dunkirk 3rd Overall Tour de Wallonie 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 1 4th Road race, National Under-23 Championships 4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg 4th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes 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 Championships 2019 (1) 1st Time trial, National Championships 6th Tour du Finistère 2020 2nd Time trial, National Championships 6th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2021 (1) 1st Time trial, National Championships 2022 (4) 1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges 1st Stage 3 1st Overall Boucles de la Mayenne 1st Stage 2 National Championships 3rd Time trial 5th Road race 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 4th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 5th Tour du Doubs 8th Overall Tour de Luxembourg 8th Bretagne Classic 2023 (1) 1st Team relay, UEC European Championships 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Four Days of Dunkirk 4th Time trial, National Championships 2024 (1) 1st Stage 5 Giro d'Italia 6th Trofeo Pollença–Port d'Andratx 2025 2nd Coppa Sabatini 2nd Cholet Agglo Tour 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk 9th Paris–Camembert Tour de France Held after Stage 1

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Giro d'Italia — — DNF — — — DNF — Tour de France — — — — 53 — — Vuelta a España 121 DNF — — — — —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish

Track

2013

2014 1st Points race, UEC European Championships 1st Scratch, UEC European Under-23 Championships 2nd Scratch, National Championships 2015

National Championships 2nd Madison (with Julien Duval) 2nd Points race 2016 UEC European Championships 1st Team pursuit

National Championships 1st Madison (with Jordan Levasseur) 1st Omnium 2nd Points race 2nd Scratch 3rd Team pursuit

2017 UCI World Championships 1st Madison (with Morgan Kneisky) 1st Omnium UEC European Championships 1st Madison (with Florian Maitre) 1st Team pursuit

UCI World Cup, Manchester 1st Omnium 2nd Madison 3rd Team pursuit 1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with Morgan Kneisky) 2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Morgan Kneisky) National Championships 1st Omnium 2nd Points race 3rd Madison (with Kilian Evenot) 2018 1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with Morgan Kneisky) 2019 1st Omnium, UEC European Championships

2nd Madison, UCI World Cup, Minsk (with Bryan Coquard) 2020 1st Omnium, UCI World Championships 2021 UCI World Championships 1st Points race

1st Points race, UEC European Championships

2022 UCI World Championships 1st Madison (with Donavan Grondin)

2023 UEC European Championships 1st Omnium

UCI Nations Cup 3rd Madison, Milton (with Thomas Boudat) 3rd Team pursuit, Milton 3rd Elimination, National Championships 2024

1st Six Days of Ghent (with Fabio Van den Bossche)

Awards and honours Orders Knight of the Legion of Honour: 2024