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He has won ten Grand Tour stages: three stages in the 2018 Giro d’Italia, two stages at the 2019 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, two stages at the 2020 Tour de France, where he also won the Points classification, one stage at the 2020 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, and two stages at the 2022 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Early life[edit]Early career[edit]An Post\u2013Sean Kelly (2011\u201313)[edit]NetApp\u2013Endura (2014\u201319)[edit]2014 season[edit]2015 season[edit]2016 season[edit]2017 season[edit]2018 & 2019 seasons[edit]Deceuninck\u2013Quick-Step (2020\u201321)[edit]2020 season[edit]2021 season[edit]Bora\u2013Hansgrohe[edit]2022 season[edit]Career achievements[edit]Major results[edit]Grand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]Classics results timeline[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Early life[edit]Bennett was born in 1990 in Wervik, Flanders, Belgium, where his father Michael came in 1989 to play professional football for local club Eendracht Wervik. He moved with his parents to their native Ireland at the age of four, where he spent most of his early years growing up in Carrick-on-Suir, the hometown of fellow cyclist Sean Kelly.[5][6]Early career[edit]Bennett was head-hunted by V\u00e9lo-Club La Pomme Marseille at 17, and joined them in the south of France, after completing his first year of third-level education at Waterford Institute of Technology (where he was embarking on an Honours Degree in Health and Exercise Studies). In 2009, Bennett rode, for the first time, the R\u00e1s Tailteann with the Carrick Wheelers Dan Morrissey squad. During the 2010 season, Bennett won the under-23 road race at the Irish National Cycling Championships in Sligo, aged 19.An Post\u2013Sean Kelly (2011\u201313)[edit]In 2011, Bennett left France and joined Sean Kelly’s An Post\u2013Sean Kelly squad, under the tutelage of manager Kurt Bogaerts. He again won the under-23 road race at the Irish National Cycling Championships and also the Grote Prijs Stad Geel, a UCI 1.2 ranked one day race.The following year he finished tenth in the under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Limburg, and seventh in the under-23 road race at the UEC European Road Championships.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4In 2013 An Post\u2013Chain Reaction moved up to Professional Continental level; Bennett won two stages in the R\u00e1s Tailteann \u2013 stage 3 into Listowel and stage 8 in Skerries \u2013 and stage 5 of the Tour of Britain, in which he also took two second places.NetApp\u2013Endura (2014\u201319)[edit]2014 season[edit]Having joined NetApp\u2013Endura in 2014, Bennett took his first professional win at the UCI 1.1 ranked Cl\u00e1sica de Almer\u00eda and won twice in Germany: the Rund um K\u00f6ln and stage 5 of the 1.HC ranked Bayern\u2013Rundfahrt into Nuremberg.2015 season[edit]The 2015 season began for Bennett at the Tour of Qatar, where he won the final stage, finishing in the Doha Corniche. Bennett won the first and third stages at the Bayern\u2013Rundfahrt, allowing him to wear his first professional points classification jersey. Bennett was involved in a mass crash at the end of the Scheldeprijs.[7] Bennett began the Tour de France sick, having been diagnosed with a hernia on his diaphragm. He completed 16 stages of the race before abandoning. He returned to racing at the Arctic Race of Norway and won stage 2 into Setermoen; he finished 2nd in the points classification to Alexander Kristoff. Bennett took his final win of the season at Paris\u2013Bourges in a sprint finish.2016 season[edit]In March 2016, Bennett won the first stage of the Crit\u00e9rium International in Corsica. Bennett’s Tour de France effort was hindered by a crash that resulted in broken fingers on his right hand, but he continued to finish the race last in the general classification \u2013 the lanterne rouge \u2013 and finishing in the top 10 on the final stage in Paris. After recovering from his Tour injuries, Bennett went on to take a stage win at the Giro di Toscana, and won the points classification. The following month, he won his second consecutive Paris\u2013Bourges.2017 season[edit]On 7 March 2017, Bennett won Stage 3 of the Paris\u2013Nice.[8] Bennett went on to win 2 stages of the Tour of Slovenia in June, and won the points classification. At the Czech Cycling Tour, he again won two stages and the points classification jersey. In September, he won the M\u00fcnsterland Giro in a photo-finish. In October, Bennett won four out of the six stages of the 2017 Tour of Turkey.[9]2018 & 2019 seasons[edit]Bennett started the season in the Tour Down Under, despite having an illness.[10] He also started in the Paris\u2013Nice, but had to abandon midway through stage 3 due to sickness.[11] At the Volta a Catalunya, Bennett finished second on stage two. On 11 May 2018, he achieved his maiden Grand Tour stage victory, winning the seventh stage of the Giro d’Italia in Praia a Mare, in a sprint finish. He then added further stage victories on stage 12, finishing at the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari motor racing circuit in Imola,[12] and the final stage into Rome.[13]  In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a, his first time competing in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.[14] On 26 August, he won Stage 3.[15] He also won Stage 14, and finished in second place on four other stages; he finished third in the points classification behind overall contenders Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d and Tadej Poga\u010dar.Deceuninck\u2013Quick-Step (2020\u201321)[edit]In December 2019, Bennett signed a two-year contract with Belgian team Deceuninck\u2013Quick-Step.[16]2020 season[edit]He was named in the team to compete in the Tour de France and narrowly finished in second place in a sprint finish on stage 3.[17] On stage 5, Bennett finished in third place and took the green jersey, becoming the first Irish rider to lead one of the classifications in the Tour since Sean Kelly won the same jersey in 1989. On stage 10, Bennett won his first stage in a sprint finish and also regained the green jersey from Peter Sagan, its seven-time winner.[18][19] Bennett became the sixth Irish cyclist to win a stage at the Tour de France, after Shay Elliott, Kelly, Stephen Roche, Martin Earley and Dan Martin, and the second, after Elliott, to win a stage in every Grand Tour.[20][21] On 20 September, Bennett won his second stage of the Tour, becoming only the fifth cyclist to win the final stage of the Tour de France while wearing the green jersey, and the second Irish (and the second from the small town of Carrick-on-Suir[22]) cyclist to win the Green Jersey (after Kelly, who won it 4 times, in 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1989).[23][24][25]He won Stage 4 of the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a.[26][27] On stage 9, he crossed the line first but was relegated for a ‘shove’ in the final kilometre, with the stage win being awarded to Germany’s Pascal Ackermann.[28] In the final stage, he again lost out to Ackermann when he was narrowly beaten into 2nd place in the sprint, thus failing by the width of a wheel-rim to achieve a win on the last-day stage of each Grand Tour, after final-day stage wins in the 2018 Giro d’Italia and the 2020 Tour de France.[29][30]2021 season[edit]On 21 June, it was confirmed on that Bennett would miss the Tour de France due to a knee injury.[31][32]Bora\u2013Hansgrohe[edit]In August 2021, Bennett was announced to be rejoining Bora\u2013Hansgrohe on a two-year contract, along with his teammate Shane Archbold.[33]2022 season[edit]On 28 June, it was confirmed that Bennett would not be part of the Bora\u2013Hansgrohe team that would take part in the Tour de France.[34]In August Bennett won the second and third stages of the 2022 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a in two sprint finishes. He became the second Irish rider to win at least 10 stages in Grand Tours after Sean Kelly.[35]Career achievements[edit]Major results[edit]20081st  Points race, UEC European Junior Track Championships1st  Road race, National Junior Road Championships1st Martin Donnelly Junior Tour[36]20091st Alleins GP[37]1st Stage 7 R\u00e1s Tailteann5th Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships20101st  Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships1st Stage 4 Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes Is\u00e8re Tour7th Grand Prix de Vougy8th Dijon\u2013Auxonne\u2013Dijon2011National Road Championships1st  Under-23 road race5th Road race1st Grote Prijs Stad Geel20123rd Ronde van Noord-Holland7th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships8th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem10th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships20131st Overall Suir Valley 3 DayR\u00e1s Tailteann1st Stages 3 & 81st Stage 5 Tour of Britain4th Schaal Sels4th Kernen Omloop Echt-Susteren7th Dutch Food Valley Classic10th Omloop van het Waasland20141st Cl\u00e1sica de Almer\u00eda1st Rund um K\u00f6lnBayern\u2013Rundfahrt1st  Sprints classification1st Stage 52nd ProRace Berlin5th Scheldeprijs6th RideLondon\u2013Surrey Classic20151st Paris\u2013BourgesBayern\u2013Rundfahrt1st Stages 1 & 31st Stage 6 Tour of Qatar1st Stage 2 Arctic Race of Norway2nd Velothon Berlin4th Trofeo Playa de Palma10th Trofeo Santanyi-SesSalines-Campos20161st Paris\u2013Bourges1st Stage 1 Crit\u00e9rium International2nd Trofeo Felanitx-Ses Salines-Campos-Porreres3rd Eschborn\u2013Frankfurt \u2013 Rund um den Finanzplatz4th Trofeo Playa de Palma5th Overall Giro di Toscana1st Points classification1st Stage 27th Overall Tour of Qatar8th Grand Prix de Fourmies20171st M\u00fcnsterland GiroTour of Turkey1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 5Tour of Slovenia1st  Points classification1st Stages 1 & 4Czech Cycling Tour1st  Points classification1st Stages 2 & 41st Stage 3 Paris\u2013Nice2nd Down Under Classic8th London\u2013Surrey Classic10th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton20181st Rund um K\u00f6lnGiro d’Italia1st Stages 7, 12 & 21Tour of Turkey1st  Points classification1st Stages 2, 3 & 67th Eschborn\u2013Frankfurt20191st  Road race, National Road ChampionshipsBinckBank Tour1st  Points classification1st Stages 1, 2 & 3Tour of Turkey1st  Points classification1st Stages 1 & 2Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a1st Stages 3 & 14Held  after Stages 4\u20136Paris\u2013Nice1st Stages 3 & 61st Stage 3 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e91st Stage 7 UAE Tour1st Stage 7 Vuelta a San Juan2nd London\u2013Surrey Classic6th Road race, UEC European Road Championships10th Rund um K\u00f6ln20201st Race TorquayTour de France1st  Points classification1st Stages 10 & 211st Stage 4 Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a1st Stage 1 Tour Down Under1st Stage 3 Tour de Wallonie1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Burgos8th Scheldeprijs20211st Classic Brugge\u2013De PanneParis\u2013Nice1st Stages 1 & 5UAE Tour1st Stages 4 & 6Volta ao Algarve1st  Points classification1st Stages 1 & 32nd Scheldeprijs20221st Eschborn\u2013FrankfurtVuelta a Espa\u00f1a1st Stages 2 & 3Held  after Stages 2\u201373rd Paris\u2013Tours5th Road race, UEC European Road Championships5th M\u00fcnsterland Giro5th Rund um K\u00f6ln5th Ronde van Limburg20231st Stage 1 Vuelta a San JuanGrand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]Classics results timeline[edit]Legend\u2014Did not competeDNFDid not finishIPIn progressNHNot heldReferences[edit]^ a b “BORA \u2013 hansgrohe”. 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