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Benoît Joachim (born January 4, 1976 in Luxembourg City) is a professional road racing cyclist from Luxembourg. He 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 a bigger, De Nardi who were interesting him him. After riding with De Nardi for 3 years, he joined the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team and rides as a super-domestique for the team (Since then, De Nardi has turned to the professional tournament]]. He has competed in six Grand Tours, including the Tour de France (2000, 2002), the Giro d'Italia (2005), and the Vuelta a España (2001, 2003, 2004, 2005). His career highlight is becoming crowned the 2003 Luxembourg National Road Race Champion and the 2004 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.
[edit] Major achievements
- 2006 – Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
- Luxembourg National Time Trial Championships winner
- 2005 – Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
- 7th, Prologue – Tour of Benelux
- 2004 – Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
- 1st –
Luxembourg National Time Trial Championship
- 9th overall – Tour de la Région Wallonne
- General classification leader (Stages 3 and 4) – Vuelta a España
- 2003 – Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
