Milan Thomas (para-cyclist)
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| National team | Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 April 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | para-cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | MB | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Milan Thomas (born 4 April 1998) is a Belgian road and track para-cyclist.[1]
Personal life
Thomas suffers from Stargardt disease. Having practiced athletics and cycling purely as an amateur, in March 2019, Thomas tries out tandem cycling for the first time at the Blind (Sports) Date, a low threshold sports activity organized by Parasports Flanders for people with disabilities. and it is love at first sight.[2]
Career
Having formed at first a duo with his cousin and former Belgian professional road bicycle racer Bert Scheirlinckx,[2] he subsequently formed a duo with Jonas Goeman. The pair won a silver medal at the 2022 UEC Para-Cycling Road European Championships in Upper Austria.[3][4] The partnership ends in 2023 and Thomas finds a new pilot in Mathias Lefeber. With Lefeber, Thomas wins a bronze medal in the spint at the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[5]
References
- ^ "MILAN THOMAS". www.paralympic.be. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
- ^ a b "Milan Thomas" (in Dutch). G-Sport Vlaanderen. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
- ^ "HERENTANDEM MILAN THOMAS/JONAS GOEMAN PAKT ZILVER IN DE EK-WEGRIT" [MILAN THOMAS/JONAS GOEMAN, THE MEN'S TANDEM, TAKES SILVER IN THE EUROPEAN ROAD RACE CHAMPIONSHIPS] (in Dutch). Belgian Paralympic Committee. 28 May 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
- ^ "Ergebnisliste/classification: Road Race MB" (PDF). Union Européenne de Cyclisme. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
- ^ "Mondiaux de paracyclisme sur piste : Milan Thomas et Mathias Lefeber empochent la 6e médaille belge" [Paracycling Track World Championships: Milan Thomas and Mathias Lefeber win Belgium's 6th medal] (in French). RTBF. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
External links
- Milan Thomas at the Belgian Paralympic Committee (in Dutch)