Benjamin Édelin

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Benjamin Édelin Road cycling
Benjamin Édelin (2016)
Benjamin Édelin (2016)
To person
Date of birth February 23, 1993
nation FranceFrance France
discipline Train (short term)
End of career 2017
Societies)
US Créteil
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
2017 bronze - team sprint
Last updated: November 20, 2019

Benjamin Édelin (born February 23, 1993 in Saint-Lô ) is a former French track cyclist and later cycling trainer .

Athletic career

In 2010 Benjamin Édelin won the team sprint junior world championship together with Kévin Guillot and Julien Palma . The three athletes set a new junior world record of 45.402 seconds, which lasted until August 19, 2015. In the same year, the three drivers were also joint junior European champions in the team sprint, and Édelin also in the keirin . In 2011, Édelin was runner-up in the team sprint together with Palma and Anthony Jacques , and he also won a silver medal in the 1000-meter time trial . In 2013 he finished second in the Keirin at the U23 European Championships.

From 2014 Édelin started in the elite and took several podium places in national championships. In 2016, together with Sébastien Vigier and Quentin Lafargue, he won the silver medal in the team sprint at the races of the Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow and Apeldoorn . In spring 2017 he won the bronze medal in the team sprint with Vigier and Lafargue at the World Railroad Championships in Hong Kong , in autumn of the same year the three athletes became European champions together . At the 2017/18 Track Cycling World Cup in Minsk, he finished third with Michaël D'Almeida and Rayan Helal .

In 2017 Benjamin Édelin ended his active cycling career and started working as a coach.

successes

Benjamin Édelin at the six-day race in Grenoble (2011)
2010
2011
2013
2017

Web links

Commons : Benjamin Édelin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin Edelin veut "aller chercher de la perf '". In: DirectVelo. July 14, 2015, accessed December 2, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Édelin, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Lô