Benjamin T. "Ben" King (born March 22, 1989) is an American professional

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, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . King turned professional in 2008.

Personal

Born in

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, King spent his adolescence in North Garden, Virginia, United States. He now resides in North Garden and Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. King graduated from Monticello High School, in

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, in 2007. He attended Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia, between 2008 and 2009.

Career

King rode for UCI Continental teams (2008), and (2009 and 2010), winning the

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in September 2010. King signed with , a UCI ProTeam, for the 2011 season, 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 The 2015 Vuelta a España was a three-week Grand Tour cycling race. The race was the 70th edition of the Vuelta a España and took place principally in Spain, although two stages took place partly or wholly in Andorra, and was the 22nd race in ...

. 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 The 2018 Giro d'Italia was the 101st edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour races. The race started in Jerusalem on 4 May, with a individual time trial followed by two additional stages within Israel. Af ...

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 MaillotUSA

Road race ::1st MaillotUSA

Time trial : 5th Overall

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;2009 : 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 8th Overall Univest Grand Prix ;2010 : 1st MaillotUSA

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st MaillotUSA

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 Jersey white

Young rider classification :

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::9th Time trial ::10th Road race : 9th Overall Cascade Cycling Classic ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ;2011 : 1st Jersey white

Young rider classification, Tour of Beijing : 5th Road race, National Road Championships ;2013 : 1st Shenandoah 100 : Jersey orange

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 Jersey blue

Mountains classification, Volta ao Algarve : 5th Road race, National Road Championships ;2020 : 8th Faun-Ardèche Classic ;2021 : 1st Stage 6 Volta a Portugal : 8th Vuelta a Castilla y León ;2022 : 1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana : 4th Road race, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:King, Ben 1989 births Living people American male cyclists American cycling road race champions American Vuelta a España stage winners Sportspeople from Richmond, Virginia Cyclists from Virginia