Full name Benjamin King Name Ben King Discipline Road Height 1.82 m | Rider type Domestique Weight 68 kg 2006–2007 Hot Tubes Cycling | |
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2004–2005 Charlottesville Racing Club 2008 Kelly Benefit Strategies–Medifast Role Professional Road Racing Cyclist Current team Cannondale Pro Cycling Team Profiles | ||
Listen to ben king following his usa cycling u23 road race national title
Benjamin T. "Ben" King (born March 22, 1989) is an American professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Dimension Data. King turned professional in 2008.
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- Listen to ben king following his usa cycling u23 road race national title
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Personal
Born in Richmond, Virginia, King spent his adolescence in North Garden, Virginia, United States. King resides in North Garden, Virginia, and Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. King graduated from Monticello High School, in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2007. He attended Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia, between 2008 and 2009.
Career
King rode for UCI Continental teams Kelly Benefit Strategies–Medifast (2008), and Trek–Livestrong (2009 and 2010), winning the United States National Road Race Championships in September 2010.
King signed with Team RadioShack, a UCI ProTeam, for the 2011 season. King signed with RadioShack–Nissan, a UCI ProTeam, for the 2012 season. He remained with RadioShack–Leopard the following year.
King signed with Garmin–Sharp, 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.
After a 2016 season in which he took 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.