Benjamin Thomas (cyclist)

Benjamin Thomas

Benjamin Thomas at the Rail European Championship 2019: Gold in the Omnium
To person
Date of birth	September 12, 1995
nation	France
discipline	Track cycling, road cycling
Driver type	Endurance rider
To the team
Current team	Groupama-FDJ
function	driver
Societies)
	EC Giroussens-Lavaur
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2017 - Omnium, two-man team driving 2016 - two-man team driving UEC European Rail Championships 2019 - Omnium 2017 - two-man team driving, team pursuit 2016 - team pursuit 2014 - points race
Last updated: July 5, 2020

Benjamin Thomas (born September 12, 1995 in Lavaur , Tarn Department ) is a French cyclist who is mainly active on the track .

Athletic career

In 2013 Benjamin Thomas became Junior World Champion in points race in Glasgow . The following year he won the title of European Scratch Champion in the U23 class. At the national track championships of the elite, he finished second in this discipline. In October 2014 he became European championship points race in Guadeloupe .

In 2015, Thomas was successful at the European Track Championships: at the European Elite Championships he won silver in the points race and at the continental championships of the U23s, together with Thomas Boudat, silver in the two-man team . In 2016 he became European champion in team pursuit with Thomas Denis , Corentin Ermenault and Florian Maitre ) and two-time U23 vice-European champion , in team pursuit (with Thomas Denis, Corentin Ermenault and Florian Maître and in two-man team driving (with Maître). At the world championships he won silver with Morgan Kneisky in the two-man team driving .

In 2017 Benjamin Thomas was two-time world champion , in the Omnium and with Kneisky in two-team driving as well as two-time European champion in two- person team driving and in team pursuit. In 2019 he became vice world champion and European champion in the Omnium, and in 2020 world champion again . In 2019 he became French time trial champion on the road. He also achieved success in races in the Track Cycling World Cup .

successes

train

2013

• Junior World Championship - points race

2014

• European champion - points race
• U23 European Champion - Scratch

2015

• European Championship - points race
• European Championship (U23) - two-man team driving (with Thomas Boudat )

2016

• World Championship - two-man team driving (with Morgan Kneisky )
• European Champion - Team Pursuit (with Thomas Denis , Corentin Ermenault and Florian Maitre )
• European Championship (U23) - team pursuit (with Thomas Denis , Corentin Ermenault and Florian Maitre ), two-man team driving (with Florian Maitre)

2017

• World Champion - Omnium, two-man team driving (with Morgan Kneisky )
• World Cup in Manchester - Omnium
• European Champion - two-man team driving (with Florian Maitre ), team pursuit (with Louis Pijourlet , Florian Maitre, Corentin Ermenault and Thomas Denis )
• European Championship - Omnium

2018

• World Cup in Milton - Omnium

2019

• World Championship - Omnium
• European Champion - Omnium
• World Cup in Glasgow - two-man team driving (with Donavan Grondin )

2020

• World Cup in Milton - team pursuit (with Thomas Denis , Corentin Ermenault and Kévin Vauquelin )
• World Champion - Omnium

Street

2017

• a stage Tour des Hauts-de-France
• a stage and junior competition Tour de Wallonie

2018

• Youth competition Étoile de Bessèges

2019

• French champion - individual time trial

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	-	-
Tour de France	-	-
Vuelta a España	121	DNF

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2015 Equipe Cycliste de l'Armée de Terre
• 2016 Armée de Terre
• 2017 Armée de Terre
• 2018 Groupama-FDJ
• 2019 Groupama-FDJ
• 2020 Groupama-FDJ

Web links

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

• Benjamin Thomas in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Benjamin Thomas in the ProCyclingStats.com database