Benoît Joachim

Benoît Joachim

Personal information
Born	(1976-01-14) 14 January 1976 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1999–2006	Us Postal service / Discovery Channel
2007–2008	Astana
2009	Differdange
Infobox last updated on January 2009

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 Postall 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 titels 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.

Major results

Grand Tour Results

Tour de France

2 participations

• 2000 : 92nd
• 2002 : 89th

Giro d'Italia

3 participations

• 2005 : 107th
• 2006 : 83rd
• 2007 : 99th

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

External links

• Benoît Joachim cycling career at FirstCycling.com
• Benoît Joachim profile at Cycling Archives