Racing<\/p>\n
Tour de France stage winner and former Irish champion signs contract through 2029<\/p>\n
January 28, 2026<\/p>\n
Ben Healy will lead EF Education-EasyPost into the coming era.<\/p>\n
The Tour de France stage winner<\/a> and yellow jersey wearer <\/a>signed a long-term contract to race with our squad through 2029. Since joining EF Education-EasyPost as a 21-year-old rookie <\/a>in 2022, Ben<\/a> has become one of the most exciting racers of his generation. He has won stages of the Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a>, Itzulia Basque Country <\/a>and the Tour de France<\/a>, as well as Irish road and time trial titles. He finished on the podium at the world championships<\/a>, the Amstel Gold Race<\/a> and Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge<\/a>. What sets Ben apart is not just his list of results, though. Ben\u2019s methodical, critical approach to bike racing makes our entire team better. He pushes us to keep questioning how to go faster. Ben\u2019s willingness to attack pro cycling\u2019s hardest races from far out and make his moves stick inspires all of his teammates and fans around the world.<\/p>\n Ben has big ambitions for the years ahead. Together with his close-knit crew of EF Education-EasyPost teammates, he wants to go for grand tour stage wins and Monument victories.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m close mates with the guys on the team, and that creates an infectious atmosphere that brings everyone closer together,\u201d Ben said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not just us guys, it\u2019s everyone, all the staff. There\u2019s not a race or a training camp you go to where you are disappointed to be there. It\u2019s always good fun and the dinner table\u2019s always a great laugh. We spend so many days on the road, so that is super important. It makes you work that bit harder for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n EF Education-EasyPost is the most youthful squad in the men\u2019s WorldTour. Younger talents such as Markel Beloki,<\/a> Mattia Agostinacchio <\/a>and Noah Hobbs<\/a>, who joined our squad in recent years, already look to 25-year-old Ben to lead them at cycling\u2019s most prestigious races. They want to take decisive pulls for him as they race in his slipstream toward cycling superstardom. That comes with pressure, but Ben handles it with aplomb. He wants to be a role model for his teammates.<\/p>\n \u201cBen is what we want as a leader,\u201d said EF Pro Cycling founder and CEO Jonathan Vaughters. \u201cHe is thoughtful and always seeking to improve. Most importantly, he is always willing to risk. Our team has and always will be built on the outsider willing to take a chance. Ben is that.\u201d<\/p>\n Since joining EF Education-EasyPost, Ben has continued to push the envelope. He has never been one to let anyone else define what he can achieve in the sport. The approach that has brought him so much success so far is the same one he will use to try to beat the best riders in pro cycling at grand tour stages and Monuments.<\/p>\n \u201cI just need to continue being myself,\u201d Ben said.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to lead by example. I want to go about it how I always have done. I love the process of getting better. Coming out of the offseason, after not riding my bike for a couple of weeks, I was so excited to get back into that process. I find it so rewarding. To be here in this position with the palmar\u00e8s that I have is something I\u2019m super proud of. I have grown so much as a rider and really refined my craft. I\u2019ve never lost the hunger for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Ben\u2019s determination to never settle for the status quo goes beyond training and tactics to equipment and clothing design. He is constantly tinkering with his bike and kit to try to find extra speed. That makes him a huge asset for partners such as Cannondale<\/a> and ASSOS.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I first joined the team, I might have seemed like a crazy guy, but there\u2019s obviously something to it and we\u2019ve worked well together,\u201d Ben said. \u201cA big part of that from my side was definitely my coach, Jacob Tipper, who is here on the team now as well. For sure, we\u2019re moving in a really nice direction with ASSOS and our Cannondale bikes. To be honest, it can\u2019t get much better.\u201d<\/p>\n Trust Ben to find every little way to get better, though. He loves thinking through every detail of his equipment, his training, and race courses and tactics to figure out how to win.<\/p>\n \u201cThe racing is just a bonus at the end,\u201d Ben said. \u201cGetting to that place where I know I can go compete with the best is what motivates me. I enjoy racing and I enjoy being at the front of a race, but if you don\u2019t put in the work, you\u2019re not going to be there. The wins are obviously amazing, but it\u2019s just getting to the point where you are able to race and compete to win those races that drives me.\u201d<\/p>\n Ben has already proven that he can take on anyone when he does that. Look forward to some massive Ben Healy attacks in the years ahead.<\/p>\n Sign up for our newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing Tour de France stage winner and former Irish champion signs contract through 2029 January 28, 2026 Ben…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-439267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}