Sam Bennett

Sam Bennett

  • Discipline: Road
  • Date of Birth: 16/10/1990
  • Gender: Male
  • Team: Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale

Major Results

9x stage Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey ('19, '18, '17) Oxyclean Classic Brugge-De Panne ME ('21) 3x stage Giro d'Italia ('18) 5x stage La Vuelta ciclista a EspaƱa ('22, '20, '19) 5x stage Paris-Nice ('21, '19, '17) 2x stage Tour de France ('20)

Biography

Sam Bennett is one of Ireland’s top cyclists and has won stages on all three of cycling’s Grand Tours during a successful career. 


A talented sprinter, the Carrick-on-Suir rider began his professional career in 2011 with An Post-Sean Kelly. He won multiple Ras Tailteann stages in his early career before joining NetApp-Endura (Now Bora-Hansgrohe) in 2014. 


Bennett rose through the ranks before winning two stages of the 2018 Giro d’Italia in a breakthrough year, he went on to earn two more stages at the 2019 Vuelta a Espana. 


In 2020, after signing with Deceuninck Quickstep Bennett won two Tour de France stages and won the green jersey in a momentous year. He followed that up with another win at the Vuelta a Espana. 


After an injury-plagued 2021 season, he returned to Bora Hansgrohe in 2022 and was back in the wins with two stages once again at the Vuelta a Espana.  

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