TOUR·KINETIC

Cofidis · 2026 Tour de France
Road captain / rouleur and sprint-train engine
Benjamin Thomas

An Olympic champion riding shotgun: the Paris 2024 omnium gold medallist is Cofidis's road captain and the long-range engine of the sprint train.

Benjamin Thomas paper-collage portrait in the 2026 Cofidis kit

An Olympic champion riding shotgun: the Paris 2024 omnium gold medallist is Cofidis's road captain and the long-range engine of the sprint train. Thomas out-foxed the breakaway to win a Giro stage in Lucca in 2024 and remains one of the craftiest baroudeurs in the race — don't be surprised to see him solo off the front on a windy transition stage.

Palmarès

  • Olympic omnium champion (Paris 2024)
  • Giro d'Italia stage winner (2024)
  • 5x track world champion — omnium (2017, 2020), madison (2017, 2022), points race (2021)
  • Étoile de Bessèges overall winner (2022)
  • French national time trial champion (2019, 2021)
  • Olympic madison bronze (Tokyo 2020)
Cut-out factHe was made a Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2024 after his Olympic gold on the boards of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Ion Izagirre, Piet Allegaert, Alex Aranburu, Jenthe Biermans, Milan Fretin, Alex Kirsch, Hugo Page — see the full Cofidis team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Nicola, license: CC BY-SA 4.0. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.