Richard Julian "Richie" Porte (born 30 January 1985) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer on BMC Racing Team and two-time winner of Paris–Nice.

In his first year at ProTour level, Porte won the young rider classification at the 2010 Giro d'Italia, and featured prominently in the general classification at several stage races. Porte moved to Team Sky for the 2012 season, and quickly made an impact, winning the Volta ao Algarve. In 2013, Porte achieved his biggest victory to date, winning two stages and the overall classification in the 2013 Paris–Nice. He served as a super-domestique for Bradley Wiggins in the 2012 Tour de France and Chris Froome in the 2013 and 2015 Tour de France.

In 2015, after winning the Australian National Time Trial Championships, Porte won two stages as well as the final overall classification of the 2015 Paris–Nice, winning that race for the second time in three years and ending up atop the UCI world road cycling rankings.

Porte started dedicated cycling in 2006 when he was 21 years of age. He comes from a triathlon background, having competed in the sport since 2003. Prior to that he was a competitive swimmer. Porte rode for Team UniSA-Australia at the 2008 Tour Down Under and finished ninth overall. He raced with a Tasmanian UCI Continental team, Praties, in 2008 and 2009, taking fifth place in the 2008 Herald Sun Tour and winning the Tours of Perth and Tasmania. Porte rose and under the eye of Andrea Tafi on the Monsummanese Grassi Mapei amateur Italian team in 2009, finishing tenth at the 2009 Tour de Langkawi. His performance at the 2009 Baby Giro, where he won the individual time trial, brought him to the attention of the professional teams.

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