Bingen Fernández

Bingen Fernández Bustinza (born December 15, 1972, in Bermeo, Basque Country) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for Cofidis. He became a sporting director in 2010, for Garmin–Transitions, and currently works with Cofidis.

Bingen Fernández

Kevin de Weert, Bingen Fernández and José Luis Rubiera Vigil
Personal information
Full name	Bingen Fernández Bustinza
Born	(1972-12-15) December 15, 1972 (age 52) Bermeo, Spain
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Team information
Current team	Cofidis
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider Sporting director
Professional teams
1996–2001	Equipo Euskadi
2002–2009	Cofidis
Managerial teams
2010–2016	Garmin–Transitions
2017–2020	Team Dimension Data
2021–	Cofidis

Biography

He turned professional in 1996 with the Euskaltel–Euskadi (1994–2013) team and raced with the Cofidis (cycling team) team from 2002 to 2009. In 2010, he became Sporting director of the EF Education–EasyPost team, now EF Education–EasyPost. Between 2017 and 2020, he held the same position at Team Qhubeka NextHash, then since 2021 at Cofidis (cycling team).^[1]

Major results

1997

2nd Trofeo Forla de Navarra

5th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

10th Tour de l'Avenir

1999

1st Mountains classification Vuelta a La Rioja

8th GP Miguel Induráin

2000

3rd Overall Vuelta a Aragón

4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

2001

5th GP Primavera

2002

8th GP Miguel Induráin

2003

9th GP Miguel Induráin

2004

10th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	29	DNF	—
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	79	—	—	—	—	—	—	105
Vuelta a España	DNF	—	—	50	87	85	67	34	85	68	87	58