Ben Healy

Benjamin Maxton Healy (born 11 September 2000) is an Irish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He has won stages at the 2023 Giro d'Italia and the 2025 Tour de France, and achieved a podium finish at Liege-Bastogne-Liege. In July 2025, he became the first Irish rider since Stephen Roche to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France.

Early life

Healy was born and raised in Wordsley, Dudley, West Midlands, in England's Black Country. Although English by birth he has Irish heritage through his paternal grandparents and as a teenager for the purposes of competitive cycling he pledged his allegiance to Ireland. His dad, Bryan, is the youngest of three siblings and the only one to be born in England after his Cork- and Waterford-born parents moved to London in the 1960s. Bryan had some racing experience and introduced his son to cycling without pressuring him to compete prematurely.

Career Healy took early career stage wins in both the 2019 Tour de l'Avenir and the 2012 Giro Next Gen.

Healy was selected to compete in the road race at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships, although he did not finish.

He came to international prominence in 2023 after a strong spring classics season. His results included winning the GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano, and podium finishes in the Amstel Gold Race, between Tadej Pogačar and Tom Pidcock, and Brabantse Pijl. He finished fourth at Liège–Bastogne–Liège.

Healy made his Grand Tour debut in the 2023 Giro d'Italia and, a week later, won his first Grand Tour stage after a solo break of 50 kilometres on stage eight.

The following season, he competed in his first Tour de France, where he was part of the breakaway on multiple stages, finishing fifth on stage nine. He won the combativity award on stage fourteen.

Healy competed at the 2024 Olympic Games in the road race, where he placed tenth.

At the 2025 Tour de France, Healy claimed a stage win on stage six, the first of his career. Healy was part of an eight-man breakaway, and he attacked and went solo with 42.6km left. He won with 2 minutes and 44 seconds to the next rider, Quinn Simmons. Healy finished third on stage ten, which meant he led the general classification, making him the first Irishman to wear yellow since Stephen Roche in 1987. He became only the fourth Irishman to wear the yellow jersey following Roche. Healy lost the yellow jersey on stage twelve, finishing thirteen minutes behind stage winner Tadej Pogačar, and falling to eleventh in the general classification. He climbed back up to ninth position on stage fourteen. He finished ninth overall in the general classification. He won the Super Combativity award for the Tour de France.

On 28 September 2025, Healy won a bronze medal in the 2025 UCI Road World Championships road race. It was Ireland's first medal in the event since Sean Kelly won the bronze medal in 1989.

In 2026, Healy crashed whilst re-conning the time trial stage of Itzulia Basque Country, fracturing his sacrum. Despite the injury, he continued to race, and finished the sixth overall in the mountain classification. However, the injury led him to miss the Ardennes classics.

Healy returned at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, after almost two months away from racing. He did not start stage seven due to illness.

Healy was selected for the 2026 Tour de France. He was instrumental in helping Richard Carapaz secure the polka dot jersey on stage twenty, working for his teammate to distance themselves from the peloton over the Col du Galibier.

Personal life Healy is known for his fashion sense. He has a dog called Olive.

Major results Sources:

2017 1st Overall Bizkaiko Itzulia 1st Stage 4 2nd Overall Junior Tour of Wales 1st Young rider classification 3rd Overall Giro di Basilicata 1st Mountains classification 1st Young rider classification 4th Overall Ronde des Vallées 1st Young rider classification 10th La Philippe Gilbert juniors 2018 National Junior Road Championships 1st Time trial 2nd Road race 5th Overall Ronde des Vallées 7th Overall Driedaagse van Axel 1st Stage 3 9th Guido Reybrouck Classic 2019 1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Avenir 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 2020 (1 pro win) 1st Road race, National Road Championships 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 1st Stage 4 Ronde de l'Isard 2021 1st Stage 10 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia 4th Time trial, National Road Championships 2022 (1) National Road Championships 1st Time trial 3rd Road race 6th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships 2023 (5) National Road Championships 1st Road race 2nd Time trial 1st GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 8 Held after Stages 16–17 Combativity award Stages 8 & 15 2nd Amstel Gold Race 2nd Brabantse Pijl 2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia 3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg 1st Stage 3 3rd Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 3 3rd Trofeo Calvia 4th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 5th Overall Région Pays de la Loire Tour 1st Young rider classification 2024 (1) 4th Overall Volta ao Algarve 4th Overall Étoile de Bessèges 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 7th Overall Tour of Slovenia 1st Stage 5 7th Overall Région Pays de la Loire Tour 10th Road race, Olympic Games

2025 (2) 1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country

3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège 4th Strade Bianche 5th La Flèche Wallonne 6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg 9th Overall Tour de France 1st Stage 6 Held & after Stages 10–11

10th Amstel Gold Race 2026 8th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

Grand Tour general classification results timeline Grand Tour 2023 2024 2025 2026 Giro d'Italia 55 — — — Tour de France — 279 Vuelta a España — — —

Classics results timeline Monument 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Milan–San Remo — — — — — Tour of Flanders — — — — — Paris–Roubaix — — — — — Liège–Bastogne–Liège DNF4 273 Giro di Lombardia — 30 49 DNF Classic 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Strade Bianche DNF — 124 12 Brabantse Pijl 372 — — — Amstel Gold Race —2 4510 — La Flèche Wallonne 130 32 345 Clásica de San Sebastián — 45 — — Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec — 84 DNF — Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal — 25 22 —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish