Personal information | |
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Full name | Thibaut Pinot |
Nickname | Pinot Noir |
Born | Lure, France[1] | 29 May 1990
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] |
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb; 9 st 13 lb)[1] |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Climber[1] |
Amateur teams | |
2008 | AC Bisontine |
2009 | CC Étupes |
Professional team | |
2010–2023 | Française des Jeux[2][3] |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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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.