Ben Healy (cyclist)
 Healy at the 2024 Liège-Bastogne-Liège | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 September 2000 Wordsley, England |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | EF Education–EasyPost |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2017–2018 | Zappi Racing |
| 2020 | Trinity Racing |
| Professional teams | |
| 2019 | Team Wiggins Le Col |
| 2021 | Trinity Racing |
| 2022– | EF Education–EasyPost |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
| |
Benjamin Maxton Healy (born 11 September 2000) is an Irish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost and represents Ireland.[1][2] A two time national champion (once each in the road race and time trial), he was selected to compete in the road race at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships. In the professional peloton, Healy is considered both a puncheur and a rouleur, and has won breakaway stages at both the Giro d'Italia (2023) and the Tour de France (2025), and achieved podium finishes in the Liege-Bastogne-Liege monument and a number of the Ardennes classics. In July 2025, he became the first Irish rider since Stephen Roche in 1987, and fourth Irishman overall, to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. He won the Super Combativity award for the 2025 Tour de France.
Early life
Healy was born and raised in Wordsley, Dudley, West Midlands, in England's Black Country.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]
Career
Healy took early career stage wins in both the Tour de l'Avenir and Baby Giro. He came to international prominence in 2023 after a strong spring classics season with results including winning the 2023 GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano and podium finishes in the Amstel Gold Race,[6] between Tadej Pogačar and Tom Pidcock, and Brabantse Pijl,[7] and a 4th place finish in the Liège–Bastogne–Liège.[8]
Following his successful classics season, Healy made his Grand Tour debut in the 2023 Giro d'Italia and, a week later, on 13 May, won his first Grand Tour stage after a solo break of 50 kilometres on stage 8.[9][10]
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 9 and winning the combativity award on stage 14.[11] He next competed in the road race at the Olympic Games, where he placed 10th.
On 10 July 2025, Healy claimed a first Tour de France stage win of his career on stage 6.[12] The 24-year-old, racing for US-based team EF Education-EasyPost, produced an aggressive ride, peeling away with 42.6km left on a solo attack to take victory on the 201.5 km rolling hilly stage six from Bayeux to Vire Normandie. The Irishman was originally part of an eight-man breakaway, which opened up a gap with 80km remaining, before Healy made a bold move for glory—winning with 2 minutes and 44 seconds over Quinn Simmons.[13][14] On 14 July 2025, a third-place finish in stage 10 of the Tour de France secured the yellow jersey for Healy, making him the first Irishman to wear yellow since Stephen Roche in 1987.[15] Healy became the fourth Irishman to wear the yellow jersey following Roche, Sean Kelly in 1983, and Shay Elliott in 1963.[16][17] Healy lost the yellow jersey on Stage 12, finishing thirteen minutes behind stage winner Tadej Pogačar and falling to eleventh in the General Classification.[18] He climbed back up to ninth position on Stage 14,[19] the position in which he eventually finished the race.[20]
Major results
Sources:[21]
- 2017
- 1st
Overall Bizkaiko Itzulia
- 1st Stage 4
- 2nd Overall Junior Tour of Wales
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Giro di Basilicata
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Overall Ronde des Vallées
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 10th La Philippe Gilbert juniors
- 2018
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial - 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 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
- 1st
- 6th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
- 2023 (5)
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 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 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 3
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st Stage 3
- 3rd Trofeo Calvia
- 4th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 5th Overall Région Pays de la Loire Tour
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2024 (1)
- 4th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 4th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 7th Overall Tour of Slovenia
- 1st Stage 5
- 7th Overall Région Pays de la Loire Tour
- 7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 10th Road race, Olympic Games
Combativity award Stage 14 Tour de France- 2025 (2)
- 1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 4th Strade Bianche
- 5th La Flèche Wallonne
- 9th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stage 6
- Held & after Stages 10–11
- Combativity award Stages 6, 10, 16 & Overall
- 10th Amstel Gold Race
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giro d'Italia
|
55 | — | — |
| Tour de France
|
— | 27 | 9 |
 Vuelta a España
|
— | — |
Classics results timeline
| Monument | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | — | — | — | — |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | DNF | 4 | 27 | 3 |
| Giro di Lombardia | — | 30 | 49 | |
| Classic | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Strade Bianche | DNF | — | 12 | 4 |
| Brabantse Pijl | 37 | 2 | — | — |
| Amstel Gold Race | — | 2 | 45 | 10 |
| La Flèche Wallonne | 130 | 32 | 34 | 5 |
| Clásica de San Sebastián | — | 45 | — | |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec | — | 84 | DNF | |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | — | 25 | 22 |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
- ^ "Trinity Racing". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 March 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Hickmott, Larry (21 December 2020). "News: Trinity Team for 2021". VeloUK. LH Publishing. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
- ^ "Tour de France 2025: Wordsley's Ben Healy wins stage six". Stourbridge News. Retrieved 14 July 2025.
- ^ Stokes, Shane (22 April 2023). "Introducing Ben Healy: 'I made a statement that I can race with these guys'". VeloNews. Retrieved 9 December 2024.
- ^ Cromwell, Ger (21 June 2021). "Father's 'long-term vision' steers Healy in right direction". Irish independent. Retrieved 10 July 2025.
- ^ Ryan, Barry (16 April 2023). "Amstel Gold Race: Tadej Pogacar powers to a dominant solo win". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- ^ Fotheringham, Alasdair (12 April 2023). "As It Happened: Godon wins De Brabantse Pijl in two-up sprint". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- ^ Fotheringham, Alasdair (23 April 2023). "As it happened: Remco Evenepoel conquers Liège-Bastogne-Liège for a second year". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 24 April 2023.
- ^ "Ben Healy lands solo stage win while Evenepoel loses time". Guardian. 13 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "Irishman Ben Healy makes stunning solo break to win stage eight". BBC Sport. 13 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ^ "TdF Daily - Stage 9 Ben Healy's heroic ride on a historic stage of the Tour de France". efprocycling.com. 7 July 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- ^ "Ireland's Ben Healy storms to Tour de France stage victory". RTE Sport. 10 July 2025. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
- ^ O'Riordan, Ian (10 July 2025). "irelands ben healy wins tour de france stage six". Irish Times.
- ^ "ben-healy-broke-40-year-irish-record-en-route-to-historic-tour-de-france-stage-win". Balls.ie. 10 July 2025.
- ^ "Ben Healy takes time to savour being top of the pile". RTE Sport. 16 July 2025. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
- ^ "Bastille Day crowns Yates and Healy - Tour de France 2025". www.letour.fr.
- ^ "'It's a fairytale' - Ben Healy takes yellow jersey at Tour de France after heroic third place in stage 10". RTE Sport. 14 July 2025. Retrieved 15 July 2025.
- ^ O'Riordan, Ian (17 July 2025). "Ben Healy loses Tour de France yellow jersey after first brutal day in the Pyrénées". The Irish Times. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ "Ben Healy back in Tour de France top 10 overall, Arensman wins stage 14". RTÉ. 19 July 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ Collins, Ben (27 July 2025). "Tour de France 2025 LIVE: Stage 21 route, standings, winners & updates as Van Aert denies Pogacar final stage win". BBC Sport. Retrieved 4 August 2025.
- ^ "Ben Healy". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
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