Personal information | |
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Full name | Benjamin T. King [1] |
Born | Richmond, Virginia, United States | March 22, 1989
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Climber Domestique |
Amateur teams | |
2004–2005 | Charlottesville Racing Club |
2006–2007 | Hot Tubes Cycling |
Professional teams | |
2008 | Kelly Benefit Strategies–Medifast |
2009–2010 | Trek–Livestrong |
2011 | Team RadioShack |
2012–2013 | RadioShack–Nissan |
2014–2016 | Garmin–Sharp [2] [3] |
2017–2020 | Team Dimension Data [4] [5] |
2021–2022 | Rally Cycling [6] [7] |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Benjamin T. King (born March 22, 1989) is an American former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2008 to 2022. [3]
Born in Richmond, Virginia, King spent his adolescence in North Garden, Virginia, United States. [8] [9] He now resides in North Garden [10] [11] and Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. [12] [13] King graduated from Monticello High School, in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2007. [14] [15] He attended Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia, between 2008 and 2009. [16] [17] [18]
King rode for UCI Continental teams Kelly Benefit Strategies–Medifast (2008), [19] [20] and Trek–Livestrong (2009 and 2010), [21] [22] winning the United States National Road Race Championships in September 2010. [23] [24]
King signed with Team RadioShack, a UCI ProTeam, for the 2011 season, [23] [24] remaining with them as they renamed to RadioShack–Nissan for the 2012 season, [25] [26] then continuing with RadioShack–Leopard the following year. [27] [28]
King signed with Garmin–Sharp, a UCI ProTeam, for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. [29] [30] [31] In March 2015, King won Stage 1 of the Critérium International. [32] [33] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España. [34]
After a 2016 season in which he took a stage win at the Tour of California, in September of that year Team Dimension Data 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. [35]
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. [36]
In August 2018, he won the first Grand Tour stage of his career at the Vuelta a España on stage 4 [37] and backed this up with another victory on stage 9. He would finish the race in 24th overall.
Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | 44 | — |
Tour de France | 53 | — | — | — | — | 62 |
Vuelta a España | — | 75 | 46 | DNF | 24 | 38 |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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