Benoît Joachim

Benoît Joachim (born 14 January 1976) is a retired professional road racing cyclist from Luxembourg.

Biography
Joachim started his professional career at the age of 18 for a small Italian cycling team, Sonego Sport. After racing with them for three months, he was noticed by the bigger, De Nardi who were interesting him. After riding with De Nardi for 3 years, he joined the Us Postal Pro Cycling Team and rode as a super-domestique for the team. He has competed in eleven Grand Tours, including the Tour de France (2000, 2002), the Giro d'Italia (2005, 2006, 2007), and the Vuelta a España (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006). His career highlight is becoming crowned many Luxembourg National Road Race Champion titles and Luxembourg National Time Trial Champion. In addition, Joachim became the first Luxembourger to wear the race leader's golden jersey at the 2004 Vuelta a España. Joachim wore the jersey for two days. In 2007, Joachim transferred to the Astana outfit, but left them after two seasons, and rode for Differdange during 2009. At the end of the season, he ended his professional career.

His younger brother Aurélien is a Luxembourg international footballer.

Major results

 * 1998
 * 1st stage Tour de L'avenir


 * 1999
 * PruTour
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 2nd overall


 * 2000
 * 1st – MaillotLuxemburgo.PNG National Road Race Championship
 * 2nd overall – Tour de Luxembourg


 * 2004
 * 1st – MaillotLuxemburgo.PNG National Time Trial Championship
 * 9th overall – Tour de Wallonie
 * 1st stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Spain
 * General classification leader (Stages 3 and 4) – Vuelta a España
 * 24th Time trial Olympic Games in Athens


 * 2005
 * 7th, Prologue – Tour of Benelux


 * 2006
 * 1st – MaillotLuxemburgo.PNG National Time Trial Championship


 * 2007
 * 1st – MaillotLuxemburgo.PNG National Road Race Championship

Tour de France
2 participations
 * 2000 : 92nd
 * 2002 : 89th

Giro d'Italia
3 participations
 * 2005 : 107th
 * 2006 : 83rd
 * 2007 : 99th

Vuelta a España
6 participations
 * 1999 : abandon
 * 2001 : 42nd
 * 2003 : 59th
 * 2004 : 57th, Jersey gold.svg golden jersey during 2 days
 * 2005 : non-runner at the 13th stage
 * 2006 : 66th