Benoit Vetu began racing after seeing French sprinter Frederic Magne race. He never had a desire to race on the road. Once he began racing on the track his career took off. In 1992 he finished third in the kilometer during the French Track Championships. In 1994 he got third in the keirin and the kilo. In 1995 he won a silver in the team sprint with Florian Rousseau and Herve Robert Thuet at the World Championships in Bogota, Columbia. 

 

By the time he was 25 he had decided to hang up his wheels and coach. According to him he realized he was never going to world sprint champion so it was time to move on. In 2005 he succeeded Daniel Morelon as head track coach in France. By 2012 he'd moved on and began coaching the Russian national sprint team with Denis Dmitriev.  Coaching the Russian national sprint team only lasted a year. Vetu soon moved on to China where he saw incredible success. In 2015 the women's team sprint squad became World Champions. 2016 saw the women's sprint team go first and second in the sprints at the worlds. And, in the same year he saw his women's team sprint squad win gold at the Olympic in 2016.

 

In 2016 Vetu made another move this time heading to Japan as the national sprint team coach. The goal is gold in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But, the Japanese sprinters didn't win any medals. After the Olympic Games Vetu sees a position change. He is currently the technical director and international strategy adviser for the Japanese national track team. Jason Niblett has taken over the sprint program.