Benoît Joachim
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 January 1976 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 1999–2006 | Us Postal service / Discovery Channel |
| 2007–2008 | Astana |
| 2009 | Differdange |
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,[1] 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.[2]
His younger brother Aurélien is a Luxembourg international footballer.[3][4]
Major results
- 1998
- 1st stage Tour de L'avenir
- 1999
- PruTour
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd overall
- 2000
- 1st –
National Road Race Championship - 2nd overall – Tour de Luxembourg
- 2004
- 1st – National Time Trial Championship
- 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
- 1st – National Time Trial Championship
- 2007
- 1st – National Road Race Championship
Grand Tour results
Tour de France
2 participations
Giro d'Italia
3 participations
Vuelta a España
6 participations
- 1999 : abandon
- 2001 : 42nd
- 2003 : 59th
- 2004 : 57th,
golden jersey during 2 days - 2005 : non-runner at the 13th stage
- 2006 : 66th
References
- ^ "Benoit Joachim: Cycling Career". Grand Tours Results. FirstCycling.com. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ^ Transfers 2010: Clerc, Joseph, Joachim... Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
- ^ "Benoit Joachim". Archived from the original on 2016-09-25.
- ^ "benoit". Archived from the original on 2016-09-25.
External links
- Benoît Joachim at FirstCycling.com
- Benoît Joachim at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Benoît Joachim at UCI
- Benoît Joachim at Olympedia (archive)
- Benoît Joachim at Olympics.com
