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Sam Bennett

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Born
1990 (34 years old)

Birth Place
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Menen, Flanders, Belgium

Position
Cyclist

Status
Active

Ethnicity
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Height
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)

Weight
73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb)

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Team
Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale

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League
UCI World Tour

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Latest Results

					UAE Tour Stage 1	20 Feb 22
					Tour De France Stage 21	20 Sep 20

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Sam Bennett (born 16 October 1990) is an Irish professional cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe.
He turned professional in 2011, and has won seven Grand Tour stages: three stages for Bora–Hansgrohe in the 2018 Giro d'Italia, two stages for Bora–Hansgrohe at the 2019 Vuelta a España, and two stages for Deceuninck–Quick-Step at the 2020 Tour de France, where he also won the Jersey green.svg Green Jersey by winning the Points classification.

Biography
Bennett was born in 1990 in Menen, Flanders, Belgium, where his father Michael came in 1989 to play professional football for local club Eendracht Wervik. He moved with his parents to their native Ireland at the age of four, where he spent most of his early years growing up in Carrick-on-Suir, the hometown of fellow cyclist Sean Kelly.