# Ben O'Connor (cyclist)

Ben Alexander O'Connor (born 25 November 1995) is an Australian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla.

## Cycling career

In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia. He was in 12th place on the general classification at the start of stage 19 but crashed during the stage breaking his collarbone. He then withdrew from the race.
In 2019 he completed two Grand Tours, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.
O'Connor started the 2020 Giro d'Italia. He achieved his first Grand Tour stage win on stage 17 after finishing second on stage 16 the day before. In October 2020, O'Connor signed a contract to join the AG2R Citroën Team for the 2021 season.
O'Connor won stage nine of the 2021 Tour de France after getting in the breakaway and then riding solo for the last seventeen kilometres of the mountain stage. His victory elevated him to second in the general classification at the end of the stage. He finished the Tour in fourth place overall.
In 2024, O’Connor won stage six of that year’s edition of the Vuelta a España after going on a solo breakaway. His victory gave him a stage win in all three grand tours, and the opportunity to wear the red jersey as he took over a four-minute lead over the rest of the peloton. He wore the red jersey until stage 19 of the race, when he lost the lead to 3-time champion Primoz Roglic, but defended his second place in the podium until the end of the competition for his best ever result in a Grand Tour.
O'Connor came second in the 2024 UCI World Championship.

## Major results
### 2015

    6th Time trial, Oceanian Under-23 Road Championships

### 2016

    1st Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
       1st Stage 4
    3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    3rd Overall Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc
    3rd Overall Tour de Taiwan

### 2017 (1 pro win)

    5th Overall Tour of Austria
       1st Stage 5
    8th Overall Tour de Langkawi

### 2018 (1)

    7th Overall Tour of the Alps
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 3
    10th Trofeo Matteotti

### 2019

    6th Overall Tour of Austria

### 2020 (2)

    1st Stage 17 Giro d'Italia
    1st Stage 4 Étoile de Bessèges

### 2021 (1)

    4th Overall Tour de France
       1st Stage 9
       Combativity award Stage 9
    4th Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge
    5th Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var
    6th Overall Tour de Romandie
    8th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné

### 2022 (2)

    1st Tour du Jura
    3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
    5th Overall Tour de Romandie
    6th Overall Volta a Catalunya
       1st Stage 3
    6th Classic Grand Besançon Doubs
    7th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
    8th Overall Vuelta a España

### 2023

    3rd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
    5th Tour du Jura
    6th Overall Tour Down Under
    7th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
    9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
    10th Tre Valli Varesine

### 2024 (3)

    UCI Road World Championships
       1st Team relay
       2nd Road race
    1st Vuelta a Murcia
    2nd Overall Vuelta a España
       1st Stage 6
       Held after Stage 6–18
       Combativity award Stage 6
    2nd Overall UAE Tour
       1st Stage 3
    2nd Overall Tour of the Alps
    4th Overall Giro d'Italia
    5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

### 2025

    10th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

### General classification results timeline

Grand Tour general classification results :
| Grand Tour | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | DNF | 32 | 20 | — | — | — | 4 |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | 4 | DNF | 17 | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | 25 | — | — | 8 | — | 2 |
| Major stage race general classification results ||||||||||||
| Race | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Paris–Nice | — | — | — | DNF | 12 | DNF | — | — |
| Tirreno–Adriatico | — | — | — | — | — | — | 13 | 5 |
| Volta a Catalunya | 42 | 11 | DNF | NH | — | 6 | 14 | — |
| Tour of the Basque Country | — | — | — | NH | 23 | — | — | — |
| Tour de Romandie | — | — | — | NH | 6 | 5 | — | — |
| Critérium du Dauphiné | 46 | — | — | 92 | 8 | 3 | 3 | — |
| Tour de Suisse | — | 13 | — | NH | — | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not Held |