Personal information | |
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Born | Hasselt, Flanders, Belgium | 8 June 1986
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Cofidis |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Puncheur |
Amateur teams | |
1998–2000 | Sport en Steun Leopoldsburg |
2001–2003 | KZLWC Sint-Truiden |
2004 | Avia |
2005–2006 | Beveren 2000 |
2007–2008 | Davo |
Professional teams | |
2009 | Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator |
2010–2011 | Team RadioShack |
2012–2013 | RadioShack–Nissan [1] |
2014–2017 | BMC Racing Team [2] |
2018–2023 | Israel Cycling Academy [3] [4] [5] |
2024– | Cofidis |
Major wins | |
Stage races |
Ben Hermans (born 8 June 1986) is a Belgian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Cofidis. [6]
Hermans was born in Hasselt, Flanders, and he turned professional in 2009 with Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator. [7]
Hermans left RadioShack–Leopard at the end of the 2013 season, and joined the BMC Racing Team for the 2014 season. [2] In April 2015, he won the Belgian classic Brabantse Pijl with a late attack and resisted to the return of the peloton by a few seconds to cross the line solo. [8] A couple of weeks later, he went on to win the third stage of the Tour de Yorkshire in solo fashion, attacking the leading group with twelve kilometers remaining. [9] He also finished sixth overall in the race. In 2017 he won the Tour of Oman. In August 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Tour de France. [10]
Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Giro d'Italia | 73 | — | 72 | — | — | DNF | 45 | — | — |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 68 |
Vuelta a España | — | 61 | — | — | 14 | — | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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