Ben Swift
Swift at the 2016 Tour of Britain.
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Benjamin Swift |
| Nickname | Swifty |
| Born |
5 November 1987 Rotherham, England, United Kingdom |
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10.9 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | UAE Team Emirates |
| Discipline | Track and road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter/Lead out man |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 1999–? | Ashfield RC |
| ? | Mossley CRT |
| ? | Scunthorpe Poly CC |
| ?–2000 | Kinesis |
| 2007–2008 | Recycling.co.uk |
| Autumn 2007 | 100% Me |
| 2007 | Barloworld (stagiaire) |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2009 | Team Katusha |
| 2010–2016 | Team Sky |
| 2017– | UAE Abu Dhabi |
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Benjamin "Ben" Swift (born 5 November 1987) is an English professional track and road racing cyclist who rides for UAE Team Emirates. Swift won the scratch race at the 2012 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
Swift was born in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, he began cycling with Mossley CRT aged 12. In 2003, he came second to fellow Olympian Steven Burke in the under 16 national scratch race championship. As a junior rider, Swift competed at the Junior Commonwealth Games, taking bronze in the points race, he won two national titles, the junior points race championship in 2004 followed by the junior scratch race in 2005. He also competed in the senior scratch race in 2005, demonstrating his ability by finishing third to take the bronze medal. Swift began competing internationally, winning several madison events. In 2012 he won the World Championship Men's Scratch Race, becoming Great Britain's first ever World Scratch Champion.
He made his professional road debut in August 2007 joining Barloworld as a trainee during which time he won the King of the Mountains title in the Tour of Britain.
During 2008 he raced for the British Cycling development team and won his first UCI ranked race. He represented Great Britain in the 2008 Olympic Games road race and at the UCI Road World Championships where he finished fourth in the under 23 race.
After the championships he signed a two-year professional contract with the new Russian Team Katusha.
In 2009 he was selected to ride the Giro d'Italia, taking a third-place finish in stage 2. He took his first professional win on the seventh stage of the Tour of Britain, leading Katusha teammate Filippo Pozzato in a one-two finish. Swift spoke with Cyclingnews.com in 2009, describing himself as "an allrounder, who can do well in the Classics and win stages. 'My weakness is in the time trial. I don't like doing them and I'm not really that good at them.'"
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