Benjamin King

Benjamin T. King (born March 22, 1989) is an American former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2008 to 2022. He now resides in North Garden and Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. King graduated from Monticello High School, in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2007. He attended Virginia Tech between 2008 and 2009.

Career King rode for UCI Continental teams (2008), and (2009 and 2010), winning the United States National Road Race Championships in September 2010. remaining with them as they renamed to for the 2012 season, then continuing with the following year.

King signed with , a UCI ProTeam, for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. In March 2015, King won Stage 1 of the Critérium International. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.

After a 2016 season in which he took a stage win at the Tour of California, in September of that year confirmed that King would join them for 2017 with a role as a leader and mentor for the team's younger climbers. The move will reunite King with former Garmin team-mates Tyler Farrar, Nathan Haas and Lachlan Morton.

In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia and finished 44th in the General Classification out of 149 finishing cyclists.

In August 2018, he won the first Grand Tour stage of his career at the Vuelta a España on stage 4 and backed this up with another victory on stage 9. He would finish the race in 24th overall.

Major results

2007 National Junior Road Championships 1st Road race 1st Time trial 5th Overall Tour de l'Abitibi 2009 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships 8th Overall Univest Grand Prix 2010 1st Road race, National Road Championships 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships 3rd Overall Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay 6th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs 7th Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix 1st Young rider classification Pan American Road Championships 9th Time trial 10th Road race 9th Overall Cascade Cycling Classic 1st Young rider classification 2011 1st Young rider classification, Tour of Beijing 5th Road race, National Road Championships 2013 1st Shenandoah 100 Most Aggressive, USA Pro Cycling Challenge 2014 8th GP Miguel Induráin 2015 1st Stage 1 Critérium International 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships 2016 1st Stage 2 Tour of California 2018 Vuelta a España 1st Stages 4 & 9 1st Mountains classification, Volta ao Algarve 5th Road race, National Road Championships 2020 8th Ardèche Classic 2021 1st Stage 6 Volta a Portugal 8th Vuelta a Castilla y León 2022 1st Mountains classification, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 4th Road race, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Giro d'Italia — — — — 44 — Tour de France 53 — — — — 62 Vuelta a España — 75 46 DNF 24 38

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish