Introduction
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, 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. As of March 14, 2017, he was reported to have checked into a psychiatric facility in Düsseldorf, citing "existential crisis". It is important to note that his name is Turkish for "I [am] not".
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
golden jersey during 2 days