Silvan Dillier

Silvan Dillier (born 3 August 1990) is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam.

Amateur career
Dillier was born in Baden, Switzerland. In 2008, he was the Swiss national junior time trial champion, Under-23 road champion in 2009, and Under-23 time trial champion in 2010 and 2011.

In 2012, he won a stage at the Tour de l'Avenir.

In the 2013 Tour of Alberta, he won stage 2 while riding with as a stagiaire. This prompted BMC to sign him to a contract for the 2014 cycling season.

BMC Racing Team (2014–17)
He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España. Dillier rode in the 2017 Giro d'Italia. and won Stage 6 in a two-man sprint against Jasper Stuyven after the pair had been part of a five-man breakaway that rode clear of the peloton for almost all of the 217 km stage. In June 2017, Dillier won his first stage race, the Route du Sud.

AG2R La Mondiale (2018–20)
Dillier joined for the 2018 season to bolster the team's classics squad, but he suffered a broken thumb at Strade Bianche. He returned to racing in April 2018 and won his comeback race, Route Adélie. At Paris–Roubaix, Dillier was part of a nine-man early breakaway that escaped from the peloton after an hour of racing, and was leading with Jelle Wallays, until the pair were caught by world champion Peter Sagan , who had attacked from the group of favourites with around 53 km remaining. Dillier was able to stay and work with Sagan all the way to the finish at Roubaix Velodrome, where Sagan won the two-up sprint finish. In July 2018, he was named in the start list for the Tour de France.

Alpecin–Fenix (2021–)
In November 2020, Dillier signed a one-year contract with the team, for the 2021 season. He extended his contract by a further two seasons in July 2021.

Personal life
Dillier resides in Schneisingen.

Road

 * 2006
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race, National Novice Road Championships


 * 2007
 * 1st Stage 3 Kroz Istru
 * 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
 * 2nd Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud
 * 1st Stage 3a
 * 9th Overall Course de la Paix Juniors
 * 1st Stage 4


 * 2008
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
 * 8th Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud


 * 2009
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships


 * 2010
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
 * 8th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher


 * 2011
 * National Under-23 Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Time trial
 * 2nd Road race


 * 2012
 * National Under-23 Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Time trial
 * 2nd Road race
 * 1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Avenir
 * 8th Overall Tour de Gironde


 * 2013 (1 pro win)
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Normandie
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
 * 1st Flèche Ardennaise
 * 1st Stage 2 Tour of Alberta
 * 2nd Grand Prix des Marbriers
 * 9th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig


 * 2014
 * 1st Gold medal uci.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
 * 2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
 * 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 3rd Overall Tour de Wallonie
 * 1st Jersey red.svg Young rider classification
 * 6th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
 * 9th Vattenfall Cyclassics


 * 2015 (2)
 * 1st Gold medal uci.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 2nd Overall Arctic Race of Norway
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
 * 1st Stage 4


 * 2016
 * 4th Overall Dubai Tour
 * 8th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton


 * 2017 (3)
 * National Road Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race
 * 2nd Time trial
 * 1st Jersey red.svg Overall Route du Sud
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 1st MaillotCyan.PNG Mountains classification
 * 1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
 * 2nd Dwars door West-Vlaanderen
 * 8th Overall Tour of Guangxi
 * 8th Brabantse Pijl


 * 2018 (1)
 * 1st Route Adélie
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Mountains classification, Tour of Guangxi
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 2nd Paris–Roubaix
 * 6th Tour du Doubs
 * 9th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
 * 10th La Roue Tourangelle


 * 2020
 * 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
 * 10th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine


 * 2021 (1)
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Road race, National Road Championships

Track

 * 2008
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Omnium, National Junior Championships
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Madison, UCI Junior World Championships
 * 3rd Madison, National Championships


 * 2009
 * National Championships
 * 2nd Kilo
 * 3rd Madison


 * 2010
 * 2nd Points race, National Championships


 * 2011
 * UEC European Under-23 Championships
 * 1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Madison (with Cyrille Thièry)
 * 3rd Bronze medal europe.svg Team pursuit
 * National Championships
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Omnium
 * 1st MaillotSuiza.PNG Madison (with Claudio Imhof)
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Points race, UEC European Championships
 * 2nd Six Days of Zürich (with Glenn O'Shea)


 * 2012
 * UEC European Under-23 Championships
 * 1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Madison (with Jan Keller)
 * 1st UEC Champion Jersey.svg Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit
 * 2nd Six Days of Berlin (with Franco Marvulli)
 * National Championships
 * 3rd Individual pursuit
 * 3rd Madison
 * 3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Robert Bartko)


 * 2013
 * 1st Six Days of Zürich (with Iljo Keisse)


 * 2014
 * 2nd Six Days of Zürich (with Leif Lampater)
 * 3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Leif Lampater)


 * 2015
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships
 * 2nd Madison, National Championships