Biniam Girmay
Girmay at the 2022 GP de Québec | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Biniam Girmay Hailu | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Bini | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 April 2000 Asmara, Eritrea | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Intermarché–Wanty | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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| 2018–2019 | World Cycling Centre | ||||||||||||||
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| 2020–2021 | Nippo–Delko–One Provence | ||||||||||||||
| 2021– | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux | ||||||||||||||
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Biniam Girmay Hailu (born 2 April 2000) is an Eritrean professional road cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty. At the 2024 Tour de France, Biniam won the Green Jersey becoming the first African to win any jersey at the Tour. At the same Tour, he made history by becoming the first black African rider to win a Tour de France stage – he won stages 3, 8, and 12.
At the 2022 Giro d'Italia, he became the first black African cyclist to win a Grand Tour stage after winning stage 10 in a reduced bunch sprint.