Neil Stephens

Neil Stephens is an Australian former road racing cyclist, born on 1 October 1963 in Canberra. He won the Australian national road race title in 1991 and again in 1994, and he took a stage of the Tour de France. He is one of the relatively few riders to have finished all three Grand Tours, the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espana, in a single calendar year, and the first Australian to do so. His career also included the Festina doping scandal of the 1998 Tour de France, in which he said he had taken EPO believing he was receiving intravenous vitamin supplements. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1996 Australia Day Honours for service to cycling and the Australian Sports Medal in September 2000 for his Tour de France stage win. After racing he moved into team management, becoming sport director of Caisse d'Epargne in late 2007 and, as of 2024, of Team Bahrain Victorious.