Ben Healy (cyclist)

National Road Race Championships (2020, 2023) National Time Trial Championships (2022) GP Industria & Artigianato (2023) | | | | | | | 2025 Kigali | Road race | | | | | | | | 2025 Kigali | Road race | |

Benjamin Maxton Healy (born 11 September 2000) is an Irish professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost and represents Ireland. A two time national champion (once each in the road race and time trial), he was selected to compete in the road race at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships. In the professional peloton, Healy is considered both a puncheur and a rouleur, and has won breakaway stages at both the Giro d'Italia (2023) and the Tour de France (2025), and achieved podium finishes in the Liege-Bastogne-Liege monument and a number of the Ardennes classics. In July 2025, he became the first Irish rider since Stephen Roche in 1987, and fourth Irishman overall, to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. He won the Super Combativity award for the 2025 Tour de France.

Healy was born and raised in Wordsley, Dudley, West Midlands, in England's Black Country. Although English by birth he has Irish heritage through his paternal grandparents and as a teenager for the purposes of competitive cycling he pledged his allegiance to Ireland. His dad, Bryan, is the youngest of three siblings and the only one to be born in England after his Cork- and Waterford-born parents moved to London in the 1960s. Bryan had some racing experience and introduced his son to cycling without pressuring him to compete prematurely.

Healy took early career stage wins in both the Tour de l'Avenir and Baby Giro. He came to international prominence in 2023 after a strong spring classics season with results including winning the 2023 GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano and podium finishes in the Amstel Gold Race, between Tadej Pogačar and Tom Pidcock, and Brabantse Pijl, and a 4th place finish in the Liège–Bastogne–Liège.

Following his successful classics season, Healy made his Grand Tour debut in the 2023 Giro d'Italia and, a week later, on 13 May, won his first Grand Tour stage after a solo break of 50 kilometres on stage 8.

The following season, he competed in his first Tour de France, where he was part of the breakaway on multiple stages, finishing fifth on stage 9 and winning the combativity award on stage 14. He next competed in the road race at the Olympic Games, where he placed 10th.

On 10 July 2025, Healy claimed a first Tour de France stage win of his career on stage 6. The 24-year-old, racing for US-based team EF Education-EasyPost, produced an aggressive ride, peeling away with 42.6km left on a solo attack to take victory on the 201.5 km rolling hilly stage six from Bayeux to Vire Normandie. The Irishman was originally part of an eight-man breakaway, which opened up a gap with 80km remaining, before Healy made a bold move for glory—winning with 2 minutes and 44 seconds over Quinn Simmons. On 14 July 2025, a third-place finish in stage 10 of the Tour de France secured the yellow jersey for Healy, making him the first Irishman to wear yellow since Stephen Roche in 1987. Healy became the fourth Irishman to wear the yellow jersey following Roche, Sean Kelly in 1983, and Shay Elliott in 1963. Healy lost the yellow jersey on Stage 12, finishing thirteen minutes behind stage winner Tadej Pogačar and falling to eleventh in the General Classification. He climbed back up to ninth position on Stage 14, the position in which he eventually finished the race.

On 28 September 2025, Healy won a bronze medal by finishing third in the 2025 UCI Road World Championships road race. It was Ireland's first medal in the event since Seán Kelly won the bronze medal in 1989.

Sources:

• Ben Healy at UCI
• Ben Healy at ProCyclingStats
• Ben Healy at Cycling Quotient
• Ben Healy at CycleBase
• Ben Healy at MTB Data
• Ben Healy at Olympedia
• Ben Healy at InterSportStats