Geraint Thomas

Geraint Howell Thomas, OBE (born 25 May 1986) is a Welsh professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. He is one of the few riders in the modern era to achieve significant elite success as both a track and road rider, with notable victories in the velodrome, in one-day racing and in stage racing.

Name: Geraint Thomas

Birthday: 25 May 1986

Birthplace: Cardiff, Wales

Turned Pro: 2007

Height: 1.83m

On the track, Thomas has won three World Championships and two Olympic gold medals. He won his first Olympic gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and repeated the feat at the 2012 London Olympics. He also won three World Championships in the team pursuit, in 2007, 2008, and 2012.

On the road, Thomas won the 2018 Tour de France, becoming the first Welshman and third British rider to win it. His early successes were in track cycling, in which he was a specialist in the team pursuit. He won three World Championships and was Olympic gold medallist twice, in 2008 and 2012. Thomas had an early win on the road at the 2004 Paris–Roubaix Juniors and later had a senior victory at the 2010 British National Road Race Championships. Leaving track cycling to focus solely on the road, he subsequently found success in both one-day races such as the 2014 Commonwealth Games road race and the 2015 E3 Harelbeke, and in one week stage races, most notably at the 2016 Paris–Nice, the 2017 Tour of the Alps, the 2018 Critérium du Dauphiné, the 2021 Tour de Romandie and the 2022 Tour de Suisse.

In cycling's grand tours, Thomas was initially a lead domestique for Chris Froome in his victories. He won the first stage of the 2017 Tour de France, an individual time trial, to become the first Welshman to wear the Tour's yellow jersey. He later crashed in that race, as well as in the 2017 Giro d'Italia. Thomas became the first Welsh person to win the Tour de France when he won the race in 2018. He gained the yellow jersey by winning stage 11, extended his lead by winning stage 12, and retained the lead for the remainder of the race. In that same year he won BBC Sports Personality of Year Award becoming first Welshman to win the award since Ryan Giggs in 2009. In 2019 he confirmed his Grand Tour pedigree when he reached podium again having finished runner-up in the Tour de France behind Team Ineos teammate Egan Bernal. In 2022 Thomas became the first Welshman to win the Tour de Suisse and later that year recorded another podium finish at Tour de France placing third. A fourth grand tour podium and a first outside of Tour de France was won in 2023 as Thomas took second place in Giro d'Italia losing the race lead to Primož Roglič on penultimate day.