Tiesj Benoot

Tiesj Benoot
	Tiesj Benoot (2015)
To person
Date of birth	March 11, 1994
nation	Belgium
discipline	Street
Driver type	Classic specialist
height	190 cm
Racing weight	72 kg
To the team
Current team	Sunweb
function	driver
Team (s)
2015-2019 ; 2020	Lotto Soudal ; Sunweb
Most important successes
	Strade Bianche 2018 ; a Paris-Nice 2020 stage
	Last updated: April 14, 2020

Tiesj Benoot (born March 11, 1994 in Gent ) is a Belgian racing cyclist . He is considered a strong sprinter and classic specialist , but also achieves success in mountainous terrain.

Career

Benoot, who studies economics at the University of Ghent , drove for farm teams of the Belgian UCI World Team Lotto Soudal in 2013 and 2014 . In 2013 he won the second stage of the U23 edition of the Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid .

At the end of the 2014 season he drove as a stagiaire for the WorldTeam and received a regular contract for 2015. In his first year with this team, he took top places in World Tour races : He was fifth in the “Monument” Tour of Flanders - after a very active driving style - and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal and overall eighth place in the Eneco Tour . He also took fourth place in the classic Paris-Tours and came second overall on the Tour of Belgium .

In 2016 Benoot u. a. Third in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and fifth overall in the Tour of Poland . With the Tour de France 2017 he contested his first Grand Tour and finished the tour in 20th place overall. His first victory in a UCI WorldTour race was the Strade Bianche 2018 by shaking off his last companions 12 kilometers from the finish. He then finished fourth overall in Tirreno-Adriatico , fifth in E3 Harelbeke and eighth in the Tour of Flanders . His best results in the 2019 season were fourth overall in the Tour de Suisse , ninth place in the Tour of Flanders and second in the Bretagne Classic three seconds behind the winner Sep Vanmarcke as well as a stage win on the Tour of Denmark .

After four years at Lotto , Bennot joined the Sunweb team in 2020 . He won the hilly 6th stage from Paris-Nice as a soloist. On the ascent of the 7th stage, which should actually be the penultimate stage of the stage race shortened due to the COVID-19 pandemic , he attacked the overall leader Maximilian Schachmann two kilometers from the finish, finished second and also second in the overall standings with just 18 seconds Residue.