Silvan Dillier

Silvan Dillier (born 3 August 1990) is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .

Career Amateur career Dillier was born in Baden, Switzerland. In 2008, he was the Swiss national junior time trial champion, Under-23 road champion in 2009, and Under-23 time trial champion in 2010 and 2011.

In 2012, he won a stage at the Tour de l'Avenir. This prompted BMC to sign him to a contract for the 2014 cycling season.

BMC Racing Team (2014–17) He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España. Dillier rode in the 2017 Giro d'Italia. and won Stage 6 in a two-man sprint against Jasper Stuyven after the pair had been part of a five-man breakaway that rode clear of the peloton for almost all of the stage. In June 2017, Dillier won his first stage race, the Route du Sud.

AG2R La Mondiale (2018–20) Dillier (centre) following Peter Sagan at the 2018 Paris–Roubaix; he ultimately finished second to Sagan in a sprint finish. Dillier joined for the 2018 season to bolster the team's classics squad, but he suffered a broken thumb at Strade Bianche. He returned to racing in April 2018 and won his comeback race, Route Adélie. At Paris–Roubaix, Dillier was part of a nine-man early breakaway that escaped from the peloton after an hour of racing, and was leading with Jelle Wallays , until the pair were caught by world champion Peter Sagan , who had attacked from the group of favourites with around remaining. Dillier was able to stay and work with Sagan all the way to the finish at Roubaix Velodrome, where Sagan won the two-up sprint finish. In July 2018, he was named in the start list for the Tour de France.

Alpecin–Fenix (2021–) In November 2020, Dillier signed a one-year contract with the team, for the 2021 season. He extended his contract by a further two seasons in July 2021.

Diller became known as a reliable domestique for Mathieu van der Poel. At Milan-Sanremo, he would regularly ride approximately 200km, often unassisted by other teams, at the front of the peloton.

Personal life Dillier resides in Schneisingen.

Major results Road

2006 1st Road race, National Novice Road Championships 2007 1st Stage 3 Kroz Istru 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships 2nd Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud 1st Stage 3a 9th Overall Course de la Paix Juniors 1st Stage 4 2008 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships 8th Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud 2009 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships 2010 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 8th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher 2011 National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Time trial 2nd Road race 2012 National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Time trial 2nd Road race 1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Avenir 8th Overall Tour de Gironde 2013 (1 pro win) 1st Overall Tour de Normandie 1st Young rider classification 1st Flèche Ardennaise 1st Stage 2 Tour of Alberta 2nd Grand Prix des Marbriers 9th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig 2014

2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Tour de Wallonie 1st Young rider classification 6th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen 9th Vattenfall Cyclassics 2015 (2)

1st Time trial, National Road Championships 2nd Overall Arctic Race of Norway 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 4 2016 4th Overall Dubai Tour 8th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton 2017 (3) National Road Championships 1st Road race 2nd Time trial 1st Overall Route du Sud 1st Points classification 1st Mountains classification 1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia

2nd Dwars door West-Vlaanderen 8th Overall Tour of Guangxi 8th Brabantse Pijl 2018 (1) 1st Route Adélie 1st Mountains classification, Tour of Guangxi 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2nd Paris–Roubaix 6th Tour du Doubs 9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton 10th La Roue Tourangelle 2020 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 10th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 2021 (1) 1st Road race, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023202420252026 Giro d'Italia 52 DNF 67 — — — — — ——— Tour de France — — — 83 — — 59 60 129126131 Vuelta a España — 79 — — 72 — — — ———

Monuments results timeline

Major championships timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish NH Not held

Track

2008 1st Omnium, National Junior Championships

3rd Madison, National Championships 2009 National Championships 2nd Kilo 3rd Madison 2010 2nd Points race, National Championships 2011 UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st Madison (with Cyrille Thièry)

National Championships 1st Omnium 1st Madison (with Claudio Imhof)

2nd Six Days of Zürich (with Glenn O'Shea) 2012 UEC European Under-23 Championships 1st Madison (with Jan Keller) 1st Individual pursuit

2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Franco Marvulli) National Championships 3rd Individual pursuit 3rd Madison 3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Robert Bartko) 2013 1st Six Days of Zürich (with Iljo Keisse) 2014 2nd Six Days of Zürich (with Leif Lampater) 3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Leif Lampater) 2015

2nd Madison, National Championships