Ben Turner (cyclist)

Benjamin Elliott Turner (born 28 May 1999) is a British cyclist, who currently ride for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.^[7]

Ben Turner

Personal information
Full name	Benjamin Elliott Turner
Nickname	The Clock
Born	(1999-05-28) 28 May 1999 (age 25) Doncaster, United Kingdom
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb; 11 st 9 lb)
Team information
Current team	Ineos Grenadiers
Disciplines	Cyclo-cross Road
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]
Medal record Representing  Great Britain Men's cyclo-cross World Championships 2017 Bieles Junior

Career

In 2021, Turner competed in cyclo-cross and road racing for UCI team Trinity Racing.^[8][9]

2022 Ineos Grenadiers

On 2 November 2021, it was announced Turner had signed for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers on a two-year contract.^[10][11] His first race with the team was the Vuelta a Andalucía 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 to victory.^[12]

His next set of races were the Cobbled classics where once again he was in a domestique role. In the Grand Prix de Denain Turner was part of a five man breakaway with teammates Jhonatan 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 for Dylan van Baarle who finished in 41st, 17 seconds behind Turner.^[15] Turner made the decisive 11-man group with leader Tom 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 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.^[18] 35 km 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 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 winner Dylan van Baarle.^[19][20]

Major results

Cyclo-cross

2016–2017

1st Junior Boom

2nd National Junior Championships

UCI Junior World Cup

2nd Hoogerheide

Junior DVV Trophy

2nd Hamme

Junior Brico Cross

2nd Bredene

2nd Junior Sint-Niklaas

3rd 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

1st Baal

3rd Koppenberg

3rd Lille

2nd National Championships

2nd Overall Under-23 Superprestige

UCI Under-23 World Cup

3rd Hoogerheide

4th Koksijde

4th UEC European Under-23 Championships

2019–2020

3rd National Under-23 Championships

UCI Under-23 World Cup

5th Bern

2020–2021

UCI Under-23 World Cup

2nd Tábor

Road

2021

2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

7th Overall Tour d'Eure-et-Loir

2022

4th Road race, National Championships

4th Brabantse Pijl

5th Overall ZLM Toer

7th Road race, Commonwealth Games

8th Dwars door Vlaanderen

2023 (1 pro win)

1st Vuelta a Murcia

2nd Clásica Jaén Paraíso Interior

2024

7th Overall Renewi Tour

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2022	2023	2024
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—
Tour de France	—	DNF	115
Vuelta a España	72	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

1. "Kampioenschap van het Waasland - Belsele (O)". Cycling Vlaanderen (in Dutch). Cycling Vlaanderen VZW. 11 June 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
2. "Ben Turner". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
3. "Ben Turner Signs for Belgian Cyclo Cross Team". velouk.net. 29 April 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
4. "Turner wins GP Sven Nys U23 race". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
5. "Trinity Racing". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 21 December 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
6. Bonville-Ginn, Tim (1 November 2021). "Brit Ben Turner joins Ineos Grenadiers for 2022". cyclingweekly.com. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
7. "Ben TURNER". UCI. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
8. "Trinity Racing". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 March 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
9. Hickmott, Larry (21 December 2020). "News: Trinity Team for 2021". VeloUK. LH Publishing. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
10. Bonville-Ginn, Tim (1 November 2021). "Brit Ben Turner joins Ineos Grenadiers for 2022". cyclingweekly.com. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
11. "Ben Turner signs with INEOS Grenadiers". www.ineosgrenadiers.com. 1 November 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
12. Goddard, Ben (18 February 2022). "Ruta del Sol: Magnus Sheffield wins stage 3". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
13. Tyson, Jackie (17 March 2022). "Walscheid wins GP de Denain". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
14. "Trio impress in Denain break". www.ineosgrenadiers.com. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
15. Fletcher, Patrick (28 March 2022). "Ben Turner: A complete package, perhaps the next Luke Rowe". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
16. "Dwars door Vlaanderen: Mathieu van der Poel wins from small bunch". VeloNews.com. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
17. "Pidcock on podium at Dwars door Vlaanderen". www.ineosgrenadiers.com. 30 March 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
18. Ryan, Barry (13 April 2022). "Magnus Sheffield secures solo win at Brabantse Pijl". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
19. Ryan, Barry; Ostanek, Daniel (17 April 2022). "Dylan van Baarle wins thrilling Paris-Roubaix". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
20. "Van Baarle wins Paris-Roubaix". www.ineosgrenadiers.com. 17 April 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2022.

External links

• Official website
• Ben Turner on Twitter
• Ben Turner at UCI
• Ben Turner at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Ben Turner at ProCyclingStats
• Ben Turner at Cycling Quotient