Thibaut Pinot

At 22 years and 54 days, he became the youngest rider to finish in the top 10 since Raymond Impanis (aged 21 years, 8 months) in 1947.

Following the Tour de France, Pinot took a stage victory on the final day of the Tour de l'Ain.

Having started out the season with finishes of 8th overall at the Volta a Catalunya and 4th overall at Tour de Suisse, there were high hopes for Pinot in July at the centenary edition of the Tour de France.

However, when the race hit the mountains, Pinot was struggling and was over half an hour down in the general classification after Stage 9.

In the second week of the race, Pinot had problems with a sore throat and also admitted he was struggling on the descents, having a fear of speed.

He abandoned the race prior to stage 16.

Having finished sixth at the Tour de l'Ain, Pinot looked to redeem himself in the Vuelta a España, and got better throughout the race, moving into the top ten overall ahead of the first rest day.

On the penultimate stage to the Alto de l'Angliru, Pinot climbed up to 7th place overall, which was also his finishing position in Madrid.

In the spring, Pinot took top-ten overall finishes at the Tour of the Basque Country, the Tour de Romandie, and the Bayern Rundfahrt.

At the Tour de France, Pinot won the white jersey for being the best young rider and finished in third place in the final general classification, behind Vincenzo Nibali (1st) and Jean-Christophe Péraud (2nd).

It was the first time in 30 years that two Frenchmen finished in the top three overall in the Tour de France – Laurent Fignon (winner) and Bernard Hinault (runner-up) finished in the top two overall in 1984.

He then rode the Vuelta a España, but withdrew midway through the race.

He finished the season with a fourth-place finish at both the Tour du Doubs, and the Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon, winning the young rider classification at the latter.

In March, he finished fourth overall at Tirreno–Adriatico, and then finished second to Jean-Christophe Péraud at Critérium International (also winning the white jersey as winner of the young rider classification).

Pinot had his first victory of the season at the Tour de Romandie.

He won the queen stage of the race with seven seconds of an advantage over his nearest pursuer, Ilnur Zakarin of.

He finished fourth in the general classification and won the white jersey as the young rider classification winner.

In June, as he was preparing for the Tour de France, he participated in the Tour de Suisse and won the queen stage, a long and difficult event featuring a mountaintop finish atop the Rettenbach glacier.

He held the race lead by 34 seconds going into the final stage, a 38.4 km individual time trial that started and finished in Bern.

However, he lost at least a minute to his closest challengers Geraint Thomas and Simon Špilak, and also fell behind Tom Dumoulin to finish in fourth place overall.

At the Tour de France, Pinot lost considerable time in the first week due to crashes and mechanical issues, yet he won Stage 20 – which finished at Alpe d'Huez – in solo fashion and finished 16th in the final general classification.

Thibaut Pinot (born 29 May 1990) is a French former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2023, spending his entire career with.

He and Péraud became the first Frenchmen to finish in the top three overall in the Tour de France since Richard Virenque finished as the runner-up overall in 1997.

Lure-born Pinot turned professional in 2010 with the team, having signed an initial two-year contract with the team.

In his first season, he won the mountains classification at the Tour de Romandie and Paris–Corrèze, and recorded fifth-place finishes at the Tour de l'Ain, and the Tour du Finistère.

Despite being the youngest rider at the Tour, he managed to finish 10th overall in the final general classification.

At the 2011 Tour of Turkey, Pinot was part of a ten-rider breakaway on the fifth stage that finished twelve minutes clear of the peloton (having also been part of the breakaway on the previous stage), and ultimately finished the race in third overall.

He then finished second to Sylvain Georges in his next start, at the Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour, winning the mountains and young rider classifications.

He finished second to Joaquim Rodríguez on the final stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné in June, before winning the Tour Alsace on the final stage in July with a stage victory atop the Col du Ballon d'Alsace.

He then won two stages at the Tour de l'Ain in August, including the final stage summit finish at the Col du Grand Colombier; he also held the overall lead for a day after his first stage win.

At the end of the month, he soloed to an opening stage victory at the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda, where he then held on to the overall lead of the race until its conclusion three days later.

Pinot, aged 22 was the youngest rider in the Tour de France.

He took a prestigious victory on the eighth stage from Belfort to Porrentruy, which comprised seven categorized climbs including the Category 1 Col de la Croix, where he passed Fredrik Kessiakoff shortly before the summit, with 16 km remaining.

He then negotiated the descent and the flat portion of road, holding on to a lead of 26 seconds over the chasing group – which included some of the Tour's general classification contenders – despite a headwind and while being frantically encouraged by his team manager, Marc Madiot.

In September, Pinot won the Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon (his first stage race win since 2011); he won the opening stage in a two-up sprint against Thomas Voeckler on the uphill finish at the Col de Pierre Plate, and then finished second to Alexis Vuillermoz on the final stage in Mende.

He finished his season competing in a pair of Italian races – he finished fourth in Milano–Torino, before recording his first Monument classic podium finish with third place in Il Lombardia, a result that he was "proud" with.

Once considered one of the most promising talents in French cycling, he finished third overall in the 2014 Tour de France and first in the young rider classification.

He has won stages in all three Grand Tours, with 3 in the Tour de France, 1 in the Giro d'Italia and 2 in the Vuelta a España.

He competed in the warm-up event for the 2016 Summer Olympics, the International Road Cycling Challenge in Rio de Janeiro, where he finished in sixth position.

Pinot has taken more than thirty professional victories, including the Giro di Lombardia in 2018, and he won the mountains classification at the 2023 Giro d'Italia.