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| Full name | Benjamin Elliott Turner | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | The Clock | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1999-05-28)28 May 1999 (age 26) Doncaster, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.94 m (6 ft4+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb; 11 st 9 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | Ineos Grenadiers | ||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Rouleur Classics specialist | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Doncaster Wheelers Cycling Club | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Dinnington Racing Club | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Paul Milnes–Bradford Olympic RC | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | HMT Hospitals Giant Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | IKO–Beobank(road)[1][2] | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2017–2019 | Beobank–Corendon(cyclo-cross)[3][4] | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Creafin–Fristads(cyclo-cross) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Trinity Racing[5] | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Ineos Grenadiers[6] | ||||||||||||||
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Benjamin Elliott Turner (born 28 May 1999) is aBritish cyclist, who currently rides forUCI WorldTeamIneos Grenadiers.[7]
In 2021, Turner competed incyclo-cross and road racing for UCI teamTrinity Racing.[8][9]
On 2 November 2021, it was announced Turner had signed forUCI WorldTeamIneos Grenadiers on a two-year contract.[10][11] His first race with the team was theVuelta a Andalucía his role was being aDomestique forCarlos Rodríguez who ended up finishing fourth overall. In stage 3, Turner finished fourth after leading out teammateMagnus Sheffield to victory.[12]
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His next set of races were theCobbled classics where once again he was in a domestique role. In theGrand Prix de Denain Turner was part of a five man breakaway with teammatesJhonatan Narváez and Sheffield who attacked with 30 km to go but sadly were caught by the peloton with 2 km to go, with Turner finishing in 41st position.[13][14]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 forDylan van Baarle who finished in 41st, 17 seconds behind Turner.[15] Turner made the decisive 11-man group with leaderTom Pidcock 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.[16][17] Another strong performance by Turner, at theBrabantse 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.[18]35 km intoParis–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 67 km to go the race was mostly together again except for a few riders out in front.Team Jumbo–Visma 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 winnerDylan van Baarle.[19][20]
He rode in the 2025 Vuelta, where he won stage 4 in an uphill sprint finish to notch his first stage win in a Grand Tour.[21]
UCI World Junior Championships
Points classification| Grand Tour | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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 Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | 120 |
 Tour de France | — | DNF | 115 | — |
 Vuelta a España | 72 | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
