![]() Girmay at the 2022 GP de Québec | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Biniam Girmay Hailu | ||||||||||||||
Born | Asmara, Eritrea | 2 April 2000||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Current team | Intermarché–Wanty | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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2018–2019 | World Cycling Centre | ||||||||||||||
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2020–2021 | Nippo–Delko–One Provence[1] | ||||||||||||||
2021– | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux | ||||||||||||||
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Biniam Girmay Hailu (born 2 April 2000) is an Eritrean professional road cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty.[2][3] At the 2024 Tour de France, Biniam won the Green Jersey[4] becoming the first black African to win any jersey at the Tour. At the same Tour, he made history by becoming the first black African rider to win a Tour de France stage[5] – he won stages 3,[6] 8,[7] and 12.[8]
At the 2022 Giro d'Italia, he became the first black African cyclist to win a Grand Tour stage after winning stage 10 in a reduced bunch sprint.[9]