Ben Swift

Ben Swift
Swift at the 2022 Giro d'Italia
Personal information
Full nameBenjamin Ian Swift
NicknameSwifty
Born (1987-11-05) 5 November 1987 (age 36)
Rotherham, England, United Kingdom
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb; 10.9 st)
Team information
Current teamIneos Grenadiers
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter, Domestique
Amateur teams
1999–?Ashfield RC
?Mossley CRT
?Scunthorpe Poly CC
?–2000Kinesis
2007–2008Recycling.co.uk
Autumn 2007100% Me
2007Barloworld (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2009Team Katusha
2010–2016Team Sky
2017–2018UAE Abu Dhabi
2019–Team Sky[1][2]
Major wins
Road

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2019, 2021)
Track
Scratch, World Championships (2012)
Medal record
Men's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Melbourne Scratch
Silver medal – second place 2010 Ballerup Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2012 Melbourne Points race
Silver medal – second place 2012 Melbourne Madison

Benjamin Ian Swift (born 5 November 1987) is a British professional track and road racing cyclist,[3] who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.[4] Swift won the scratch race at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and the men's elite road race at the 2019 and 2021 British National Road Race Championships.[5][6] His cousin, Connor Swift, is also an English professional road racing cyclist, and the 2018 British champion.

  1. ^ "Team Sky". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Team Ineos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. ^ "British Cycling Biography". British cycling. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007.
  4. ^ "Ineos Grenadiers". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. ^ "HSBC UK │National Road Race Championships 2019". British Cycling. Retrieved 22 October 2020.
  6. ^ "Ben Swift and Pfeiffer Georgi win national road race titles". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 October 2021.