Professional career

Trentin turned professional in August 2011 with Quick-Step.

In 2013, he fractured his right scaphoid at the start of the season following a fall during the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, leaving him out of competition for two months.^[7] Trentin took his maiden pro victory in July at the Tour de France, winning stage 14 in a sprint in Lyon against his breakaway counterparts.

In June 2014, Trentin won a stage of the Tour de Suisse. A monthn later, he took a prestigious victory on Stage 7 of the Tour de France, where he won the sprint by a few centimeters over Peter Sagan.^[8] In October 2015, Trentin won Paris–Tours in record time for a race over 200 km, thus becoming the new Ruban Jaune. The following May, he won stage 18 of the Giro d'Italia from the breakaway.

He won his first race of 2017 in early August on stage 2 of the Vuelta a Burgos, before going on to compete in the Vuelta a España. By winning the fourth stage of the race, he completed the set of at least one stage win in each of the Grand Tours, becoming the 100th rider to do so. He won three more stages and was also in contention for the points jersey; however Chris Froome took the overall win from Trentin by only 2 points. At the end of the year, he won Paris–Tours for the second time after placing fourth at the World Championshps.^[9]

Trentin became the European road race champion at the 2018 European Cycling Championships in Glasgow. In 2019, Trentin took his third individual Tour de France stage win with a solo move from the breakaway on stage 17 into Gap.^[10] In September of that year, he won a stage and finished second overall in the Tour of Britain, won the Trofeo Matteotti and the silver medal at the World Championshps.

Trentin joined the CCC Team in 2020,^[3] but left the team after one season, to join UAE Team Emirates on a two-year contract from 2021.^[5] In 2021, he won the Trofeo Matteotti for the second time. In 2022, he was forced to withdraw from the Tour de France two days before the start after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 and was replaced by Marc Hirschi.^[11] He ended the season on good form with a fifth place at the World Championshps and a win at the Giro del Veneto.

In 2024, he joined the Tudor Pro Cycling Team on a three year contract.^[12]

Road

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Grand Tour	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Giro d'Italia	117	—	—	74	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Tour de France	142	93	117	—	DNF	—	52	79	—	—	107
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	84	125	—	—	80	—

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