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Historic Overview Geraint Thomas

Rider

Overall Rank80
NameGeraint THOMAS
Country
  Great Britain
Date of birth25-May-1986 - Cardiff (Cardiff)
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Biography

Geraint Thomas

Geraint Howell Thomas, (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡɛraint]; born 25 May 1986) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers, Wales and Great Britain. He is one of the few riders in the modern era to achieve significant elite success as both a track and road rider, with notable victories in the velodrome, in one-day racing and in stage racing. On the track, he has won three World Championships (2007, 2008, and 2012), and two Olympic gold medals (2008 and 2012), while on the road he won the 2018 Tour de France becoming the first Welshman and British-born rider to win it.

His early successes were in track cycling, in which he was a specialist in the team pursuit. He won three World Championships and was Olympic gold medallist twice, in 2008 and 2012. Thomas had an early win on the road at the 2004 Paris–Roubaix Juniors and later had a senior victory at the 2010 British National Road Race Championships. Leaving track cycling to focus solely on the road, he subsequently found success in both one-day/classic races such as the 2014 Commonwealth Games road race and the 2015 E3 Harelbeke, and in one week stage races, most notably at the 2016 Paris–Nice, the 2017 Tour of the Alps, the 2018 Critérium du Dauphiné, the 2020 Tour de Romandie and the 2022 Tour de Suisse.

In cycling's grand tours, Thomas was initially a lead domestique to Chris Froome in his victories. He won the first stage of the 2017 Tour de France, an individual time trial, to become the first Welshman to wear the Tour's yellow jersey. He later crashed in that race, as well as in the 2017 Giro d'Italia. Thomas became the first Welsh person ever to win the Tour de France when he won the tournament in 2018. He gained the yellow jersey by winning stage 11, extended his lead by winning stage 12, and retained the lead for the remainder of the event. In the same year he won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award, becoming the first Welshman to win the ward since Ryan Giggs in 2009. In 2019, he confirmed his Grand Tour pedigree when he reached the podium again, having finished runner-up in the Tour de France behind Team Ineos teammate Egan Bernal. In 2022, Thomas became the first ever Welshman to win the Tour de Suisse and later that year won another podium finish at the 2022 Tour de France, placing third.

Notable for his all-round ability and adaptability rather than mastery of one specialism, Thomas has been competitive in individual time-trials, on the cobbles, in the Spring classics and in the mountains of Grand Tours, where he was the first rider in the history of the Tour de France to win at Alpe d'Huez while in yellow.

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Badges

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Major Victories

Paris - Nice 2016
G.P. E3 - Harelbeke 2015
Dauphiné Libéré 2018
Tour de France 2018
Volta ao Algarve 2015, 2016
Giro del Trentino 2017
Bayern Rundfahrt 2011, 2014
Tour de Romandie 2021
Tour de Suisse 2022
Tour de France - stages 2017 (1), 2018 (2)
Tirreno - Adriatico - stages 2017 (1)
Tour Down Under - stages 2013 (1)
Tour de Romandie - stages 2012 (1)
Volta ao Algarve - stages 2015 (1), 2018 (1)
Giro del Trentino - stages 2017 (1)
Bayern Rundfahrt - stages 2014 (1)
Dauphiné Libéré - stages 2021 (1)
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Seasons

Geraint Thomas - Scores by Season

Year Team Score Rank
1. 2005 Team Wiesenhof 11 1372
2. 2006 Saunier Duval - Prodir 0 3711
3. 2007 Barloworld 82 583
4. 2008 Barloworld 135 454
5. 2009 Barloworld 35 796
6. 2010 Sky Professional Cycling Team 538 108
7. 2011 Sky Procycling 613 102
8. 2012 Sky Procycling 381 203
9. 2013 Sky Procycling 945 53
10. 2014 Team Sky 1349 32
11. 2015 Team Sky 1826 14
12. 2016 Team Sky 1648 12
13. 2017 Team Sky 1331 28
14. 2018 Team Sky 3186 2
15. 2019 Team Ineos 1620 17
16. 2020 Ineos Grenadiers 611 69
17. 2021 Ineos Grenadiers 1235 30
18. 2022 Ineos Grenadiers 1573 15
19. 2023 Ineos Grenadiers 1099 7
Overall: 18218 80