Personal information | |
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Full name | Neil Stephens |
Born | Canberra, Australia | 1 October 1963
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) |
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
1985 | Peugeot–Michelin |
1986 | Santini–Sierre |
1987 | Ever Ready–Ammaco |
1988 | Zero Boys |
1989 | Caja Rural–Paternina |
1990 | Artiach–Royal |
1991 | Paternina sport |
1992–1996 | ONCE |
1997–1998 | Festina–Lotus |
Managerial teams | |
2000–2001 | Linda McCartney Racing Team |
2005–2006 | Liberty Seguros–Würth |
2008–2010 | Caisse d'Epargne |
2012–2018 | GreenEDGE |
2019– | UAE Team Emirates |
Neil Stephens OAM ASM (born 1 October 1963 in Canberra) is an Australian former road bicycle racer. He won the Australian national road race title in 1991 and 1994. [1]
He is a Tour de France stage winner and is one of the relatively few riders to have completed the three Grand Tours (Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España) in a calendar year, as well as being the first Australian to complete the feat. [2] He was involved in the Festina doping scandal in 1998 Tour de France. He claimed that he took EPO but believed he was taking vitamin supplements intravenously. [3] In late 2007, Caisse d'Epargne announced that Neil Stephens would be the team's new sport director. [4]
Stephens was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 1996 Australia Day Honours for his service to cycling [5] and the Australian Sports Medal in September 2000 in recognition of his Tour de France stage win. [6]
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