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Full name | Benjamin Hill | ||||||||||||||
Born | Scone, New South Wales, Australia | 5 February 1990||||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
2022– | Team CCS Canberra Men[1] | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
2013 | Hincapie Sportswear Development Team | ||||||||||||||
2015 | Charter Mason–Giant Racing Team | ||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Attaque Team Gusto | ||||||||||||||
2018–2019 | Ljubljana Gusto Xaurum | ||||||||||||||
2020 | Team BridgeLane[2] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Benjamin Hill (born 5 February 1990) is an Australian cyclist, who last rode for UCI Continental team Team BridgeLane.[3]
Hill was suspended for 2 years from cycling by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority for testing positive for Methylhexanamine during the 2012 Tour of Tasmania. Hill admitted the error immediately after a teammate gave him the substance instead of caffeine.[4] Hill tried to fight his suspension stating it was unfair he was given 2 years when people who purposely blood doped got 6 months.[5] In the 2016 cycling season Hill was supposed to ride for Dynamo Cover, a new UCI Continental team which folded before it even started racing. This left Hill among others looking for a new team for 2016.[6] At the National race, Cootamundra Annual Classic, Hill finished in first place, his partner Rebecca Wiasak also won her event.[7] In 2017 at the Tour of Hainan Hill crashed during stage 8 and fractured 7 vertebrae ending his season early.[8] At the 2020 Herald Sun Tour Hill spent every stage in the breakaway earning himself enough points to win the green sprinters jersey.[9]
Since 2020 Hill has been working as a cycling coach at Today's Plan.[10]