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Benoît Joachim
Personal information
Born	14 January 1976 (age 48); 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