Neil Stephens


Neil Stephens is an Australian former road bicycle racer. He won the Australian national road race title in 1991 and 1994.
He is a Tour de France stage winner and is one of the relatively few riders to have completed the three Grand Tours in a calendar year, as well as being the first Australian to complete the feat. He was involved in the Festina doping scandal in 1998 Tour de France. He claimed that he took EPO but believed he was taking vitamin supplements intravenously. In late 2007, announced that Neil Stephens would be the team's new sport director.
Stephens was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 1996 Australia Day Honours for his service to cycling and the Australian Sports Medal in September 2000 in recognition of his Tour de France stage win.

Major results

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