Name	Geraint Thomas
Height	6 ft
Naionality	Welsh
Date of Birth	25-May-1986
Place of Birth	Cardiff, Wales
Famous for	Cycling

Geraint Thomas is a Welsh professional racing cyclist who rides for the UCI ProTeam Team Sky. A track cycling world champion and Olympic gold medalist in the team pursuit, Thomas has also enjoyed success on the road, winning the 2004 Junior Paris–Roubaix, the 2010 British National Road Race Championships and the 2011 Bayern-Rundfahrt.

Thomas became a member of British Cycling's Olympic Academy. He won the Carwyn James Junior Award at the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year ceremony. Thomas competed at World Cup events around the world, and was training in Sydney, Australia, in February 2005 when he crashed after the rider in front of him hit a piece of metal in the road which was flicked up into Thomas' wheel. He suffered internal bleeding after the piece of metal entered his body during the fall, he ruptured his spleen which subsequently had to be removed. He rode most of his races of 2006 for Recycling.co.uk, but towards the end of 2006 joined Saunier Duval-Prodir as a stagiaire. He also rode a few races, such as the Tour of Britain, for the Great Britain squad. Thomas started the year with some promising performances, finishing sixth in the Classica Sarda and second overall in the Dwars door Vlaanderen. Thomas claimed his first professional victory in May 2011 by winning the five-day 2011 Bayern-Rundfahrt race, after finishing second on stage 3 and fifth on stage 4. On 26 June 2011, Thomas finished second to Bradley Wiggins in the British National Road Race Championships.

At the 2011 Tour de France, Thomas finished sixth on the opening stage to take the white jersey. He retained the jersey the following day, as Sky finished third in the team time trial. Thomas lost the white jersey to Robert Gesink on stage 7, as team leader Bradley Wiggins crashed out of the Tour, and the remaining Sky riders lost time after waiting for him. Thomas won the combativity award on the 212 km stage 12, following an aggressive breakaway 2 km into the first Pyrenean stage that saw him lose contol twice on the descent of the Hourquette d’Ancizan. He finished 36th on the stage after being caught by the general classification leaders with 7 km to go on the final climb of the day, and rose to 25th overall. Thomas signed a new three year contract with Sky after stage 16. He finished 31st overall in the Tour.