Ben King (cyclist)
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Richmond, Virginia, United States
 King at the 2014 Tour of Alberta | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Benjamin T. King[1] |
| Born | March 22, 1989 Richmond, Virginia, United States |
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) |
| Team information | |
| 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 between 2008 and 2009.[16][17][18]
Career
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.
