Neil Stephens

Neil Stephens
	Stephens as a directeur sportif at the 2005 Giro d'Italia
Personal information
Full name	Neil Stephens
Born	1 October 1963 (age 61); Canberra, Australia
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1985	Peugeot–Michelin
1986	Santini–Sierre
1987	Ever Ready–Ammaco
1988	Zero Boys
1989	Caja Rural–Paternina
1990	Artiach–Royal
1991	Paternina sport
1992–1996	ONCE
1997–1998	Festina–Lotus
Managerial teams
2000–2001	Linda McCartney Racing Team
2005–2006	Liberty Seguros–Würth
2008–2010	Caisse d'Epargne
2012–2018	GreenEDGE
2019–2020	UAE Team Emirates
2021–	Team Bahrain Victorious

Neil Stephens OAM ASM (born 1 October 1963 in Canberra) is an Australian former road bicycle racer. He won the Australian national road race title in 1991 and 1994.^[1] As of 2024 he is a sports director at Team Bahrain Victorious.^[2]

He is a Tour de France stage winner and is one of the relatively few riders to have completed the three Grand Tours (Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España) in a calendar year, as well as being the first Australian to complete the feat.^[3] 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.^[4] In late 2007, Caisse d'Epargne announced that Neil Stephens would be the team's new sport director.^[5]

Stephens was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 1996 Australia Day Honours for his service to cycling^[6] and the Australian Sports Medal in September 2000 in recognition of his Tour de France stage win.^[7]