Benjamin Elliott Turner (born 28 May 1999) is a British cyclist, who currently ride for UCI WorldTeam .

Career

In 2021, Turner competed in cyclo-cross and road racing for UCI team .

2022 Ineos Grenadiers

On 2 November 2021, it was announced Turner had signed for UCI WorldTeam on a two year contract. His first race with the team was the

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his role was being a Domestique for Carlos Rodríguez who ended up finishing fourth overall. In stage 3, Turner finished fourth after leading out teammate

Magnus Sheffield Magnus Sheffield (born April 19, 2002) is an American cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Magnus Sheffield left in August 2021 for unknown reasons ahead of his 2022 season with Ineos. In April 2022 Sheffield won Brabantse Pijl, one of the Fla ...

to victory. His next set of races were the Cobbled classics where once again he was in a domestique role. In the

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Turner was part of a five man breakaway with teammates

Jhonatan Narváez Jhonatan Manuel Narváez Prado (born 4 March 1997) is an Ecuadorian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Originally from El Playón de San Francisco in Ecuador's Sucumbíos Canton, whilst at school N ...

and Sheffield who attacked with 30km to go but sadly were caught by the peloton with 2km to go, with Turner finishing in 41st position. Gent–Wevelgem was the next race where Turner showed his good form. He managed 28th which was the best placed from his team after spending the day working for

Dylan van Baarle Dylan van Baarle (born 21 May 1992) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Biography Born in Voorburg, van Baarle resides in Veenendaal, Netherlands. Van Baarle is the son of f ...

who finished in 41st, 17 seconds behind Turner. Turner made the decisive 11-man group with leader

Tom Pidcock Thomas Pidcock (born 30 July 1999) is a British cyclist who currently competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain bike and road bicycle racing disciplines of the sport for UCI WorldTeam . After a prodigious junior and under-23 career with World Cha ...

also there. His work as a domestique chasing down attacks helped Pidcock finish in 3rd position and Turner was able to hold on to finish in 8th, his first top 10 One-day result. Another strong performance by Turner, at the Brabantse Pijl, after working once again as a domestique this time for Sheffield he crossed the line in 4th out sprinting teammate Pidcock and his other 5 breakaway companions. 35km into Paris–Roubaix the bunch was met with cross-winds so Turner went to the front with his Ineos squad and begin to increase the pace, this caused a split with many favourites missing out. By 67km to go the race was mostly together again except for a few riders out in front. came to the front to drive the pace in doing so caused a split which Turner and teammate van Baarle were a part of. Turner unfortunately crashed on a cobble sector and lost contact with the front bunch. He did manage to keep riding finishing in 11th 4' 30" down on winner

Major results

Cyclo-cross

;2016–2017 : 1st Junior Boom : 2nd National Junior Championships :

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::2nd Hoogerheide : Junior DVV Trophy ::2nd

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: Junior Brico Cross ::2nd Bredene : 2nd Junior Sint-Niklaas : 3rd Bronze medal uci

UCI World Junior Championships ;2017–2018 : 2nd National Under-23 Championships : 3rd Under-23 Overijse ;2018–2019 : Under-23 DVV Trophy ::1st Niel ::1st

Loenhout Loenhout is a village and '' deelgemeente'' (sub-municipality) of the municipality of Wuustwezel in the province of Antwerp, Belgium. The village is located near the Dutch border, and about north-east of the city of Antwerp. History The are ...

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: 2nd

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: 2nd Overall Under-23 Superprestige : UCI Under-23 World Cup ::3rd Hoogerheide : 4th UEC European Under-23 Championships ;2019–2020 : 3rd National Under-23 Championships ;2020–2021 : UCI Under-23 World Cup ::2nd

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Road

;2021 : 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships : 7th Overall

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;2022 : 4th Road race, National Championships : 4th Brabantse Pijl : 5th Overall ZLM Toer : 7th Road race,

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: 8th Dwars door Vlaanderen ;2023 (1 pro win) : 1st Vuelta a Murcia : 2nd

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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