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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 España ('22, '20, '19) 5x stage Paris-Nice ('21, '19, '17) 2x stage Tour de France ('20)
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.
