Thibaut Pinot

Thibaut Pinot
Pinot at the 2019 Tour de France
Personal information
Full nameThibaut Pinot
NicknamePinot Noir
Born (1990-05-29) 29 May 1990 (age 34)
Lure, France[1]
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber[1]
Amateur teams
2008AC Bisontine
2009CC Étupes
Professional team
2010–2023Française des Jeux[2][3]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Young rider classification (2014)
3 individual stages (2012, 2015, 2019)
Giro d'Italia
Mountains classification (2023)
1 individual stage (2017)
Vuelta a España
2 individual stages (2018)

Stage races

Critérium International (2016)
Tour of the Alps (2018)

One-day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships (2016)
Giro di Lombardia (2018)
Milano–Torino (2018)

Thibaut Pinot (born 29 May 1990) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2023, spending his entire career with Française des Jeux.[4] Once considered one of the most promising talents in French cycling, he finished third overall in the 2014 Tour de France and first in the young rider classification. He has won stages in all three Grand Tours, with 3 in the Tour de France, 1 in the Giro d'Italia and 2 in the Vuelta a España. Pinot has taken more than thirty professional victories, including the Giro di Lombardia in 2018, and he won the mountains classification at the 2023 Giro d'Italia.

  1. ^ a b c d "Thibaut Pinot". Groupama–FDJ. Société de Gestion de L'Echappée. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Groupama-FDJ confirm 28 riders for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Groupama – FDJ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Groupama – FDJ". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.