Benoît Joachim

Benoît Joachim (born 14 January 1976) is a retired professional road racing cyclist from Luxembourg.

Biography Joachim started his professional career at the age of 18 for a small Italian cycling team, Sonego Sport. After racing with them for three months, he was noticed by the bigger, De Nardi who were interesting him. After riding with De Nardi for 3 years, he joined the Us Postal Pro Cycling Team and rode as a super-domestique for the team. He has competed in eleven Grand Tours, including the Tour de France (2000, 2002), the Giro d'Italia (2005, 2006, 2007), and the Vuelta a España (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006). His career highlight is becoming crowned many Luxembourg National Road Race Champion titles and Luxembourg National Time Trial Champion. In addition, Joachim became the first Luxembourger to wear the race leader's golden jersey at the 2004 Vuelta a España. Joachim wore the jersey for two days. In 2007, Joachim transferred to the Astana outfit, but left them after two seasons, and rode for Differdange during 2009. At the end of the season, he ended his professional career.

His younger brother Aurélien is a Luxembourgish international footballer.

Major results

1998 1st stage Tour de L'avenir 1999 PruTour 1st Stage 1 2nd overall

2000

2nd overall – Tour de Luxembourg 2004

9th overall – Tour de Wallonie 1st stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Spain General classification leader (Stages 3 and 4) – Vuelta a España 24th Time trial Olympic Games in Athens 2005 7th, Prologue – Tour of Benelux 2006

2007

Grand Tour results Tour de France 2 participations 2000 : 92nd 2002 : 89th

Giro d'Italia 3 participations 2005 : 107th 2006 : 83rd 2007 : 99th

Vuelta a España 6 participations 1999 : abandon 2001 : 42nd 2003 : 59th

2005 : non-runner at the 13th stage 2006 : 66th