Rider Profile
Geraint Thomas
Ineos Grenadiers
Personal Details:
Teams history:
- 2024 - Ineos Grenadiers
- 2023 - Ineos Grenadiers
- 2022 - Ineos Grenadiers
- 2021 - Ineos Grenadiers
- 2020 - Ineos Grenadiers
- 2019 - Team Ineos
- 2018 - Team Sky
- 2017 - Team Sky
- 2016 - Team Sky
- 2015 - Team Sky
- 2014 - Team Sky
- 2013 - Sky Procycling
- 2012 - Sky Procycling
- 2011 - Sky Procycling
- 2010 - Sky Professional Cycling Team
- 2009 - Barloworld
- 2008 - Barloworld
- 2007 - RECYCLING.CO.UK
- 2007 - Barloworld
Biography:
Geraint Thomas, born in Cardiff on May 25, 1986, is one of the most versatile and successful riders in the contemporary peloton, winner of the 2018 Tour de France and of Olympic gold medals in the team pursuit in 2008 and 2012.
The Welshman turned professional with Barloworld in 2007 and he made his Tour de France debut that same year, reaching Paris in 140th place. The following season, Thomas won the first of his Olympic medals in Beijing but his career would take on a new dimension when he joined Team Sky for its inaugural campaign in 2010.
Thomas won the British road title that year, while his aggression was one of the few bright spots in Sky’s troubled debut Tour. In 2011, Thomas shone at the cobbled Classics, taking second at Dwars door Vlaanderen, before highlighting his stage racing potential with victory at Bayern Rundfahrt.
After another Olympic gold medal in London in 2012, Thomas played a key role in helping Chris Froome win the 2013 Tour de France, while in 2014, strong displays in the cobbled Classics – including 7th at Paris-Roubaix – were followed by victory in the Commonwealth Games road race.
2015 proved a pivotal season in Thomas’ development, as he won E3 Harelbeke and placed third at Gent-Wevelgem, but he also made strides as a stage racer, with victory at the Volta ao Algarve and second at the Tour de Suisse. At the Tour de France, meanwhile, he spent much of the race in the top five before slipping to 15th overall in the final days. The upward trajectory continued in 2016, with overall victory at Paris-Nice and another 15th place at the Tour.
In 2017, Thomas warmed up for the Giro d’Italia with overall victory at the Tour of the Alps but a crash on stage 9 to the Blockhaus ruined his overall challenge before it began. He endured further ill fortune at the Tour, crashing out of the race after claiming the first yellow jersey in the opening time trial in Dusseldorf.
Thomas finally enjoyed a clear run in 2018, when victory at Critérium du Dauphiné saw him start the Tour as co-leader with Chris Froome. He proceeded to take yellow thanks to back-to-back stage wins in the Alps and he defended the lead calmly all the way to Paris to become the third Briton to win the Tour.
A year later, Thomas’ Tour preparations were hampered by a crash at the Tour de Suisse but he still produced a fine display in July, ultimately placing second overall behind his Ineos teammate Egan Bernal. After missing out on selection for the pandemic-delayed 2020 Tour, Thomas crashed out of the subsequent Giro, but he returned to claim Tour de Romandie victory in 2021.
An injury-hit winter and a delay in renewing his Ineos contract meant that Thomas started 2022 ostensibly in a mentorship role, but he gradually displayed his value on the road, claiming overall victory at the Tour de Suisse and then placing third overall at the Tour de France behind the unassailable Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar.
In 2023, Thomas led Ineos at the Giro d'Italia and moved into the race lead on stage 10 and, except for stage 14 where Bruno Armirail took over from a large breakaway, the Welshman led the overall classification until the final time trial. It was on the last day that Thomas succumbed to the efforts of Primož Roglič and fell to second overall at 14 seconds.
Thomas renewed with Ineos until 2025.
Key results:
1st overall, Tour de France 2018
2nd overall, Tour de France 2019
3rd overall, Tour de France 2022
2nd overall, Giro d'Italia 2023
1st overall, Paris-Nice 2016
1st overall, Tour de Suisse 2022
1st overall, Tour de Romandie 2021
1st overall, Critérium du Dauphiné 2018
1st overall, Volta ao Algarve 2015, 2016
2nd overall, Tirreno-Adriatico 2020
3rd overall, Volta a Catalunya 2021
1st, E3 Harelbeke 2015
3rd, Gent-Wevelgem 2015
7th, Paris-Roubaix 2014
8th, Tour of Flanders 2018
1st, Team Pursuit Olympic Games 2008, 2012
1st, Commonwealth Games road race 2014
2nd, Dwars door Vlaanderen 2011
Related Articles
'I wanted to be more aggressive and just attacked it' – Taking risks in Giro d'Italia TT pays off for Geraint Thomas
By Stephen Farrand published
News Welshman moves past Martínez into second overall as Ineos Grenadiers take lead in team classification
'It was good to get stuck in and have a go' - Geraint Thomas tests Pogačar's echelon skills before vital Giro d'Italia time trial
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'I'm looking forward to putting it right' - Geraint Thomas on upcoming Giro d'Italia time trial
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Geraint Thomas 'just wanted to hide' and flies under radar at latest Giro d’Italia summit finish
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News Briton concentrates on saving energy as ‘with the headwind nothing was really going to go’
‘We’re just clowns in the circus’ – Geraint Thomas questions safety of Giro d’Italia’s Naples finale
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News Welshman finishes in peloton after stage 9 crash and remains third overall
'I was sort of apprehensive' – Geraint Thomas steadies ship at Giro d'Italia after time trial losses
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News Welshman comes home within sight of Pogačar but accepts remainder of race will be 'quite strange'
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