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. As of 2024 he is a sports director at Team Bahrain Victorious.

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. 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, Caisse d'Epargne announced that Neil Stephens would be the team's new sport director.

Stephens was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) 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

1986

1st and Fastest Time Alex Roberts "100" Mile one day Classic Mount Gambier South Australia

1st, Overall, Herald Sun Tour

1988

1st, Stage 10, Milk Race

1990

1st, Stage 13, Herald Sun Tour

1st, Stage 5, Volta a Portugal

1991

National Road Race Championship

1st, GP Villafranca de Ordizia

1992

1st, Trofeo Calvià (Vuelta a Mallorca)

1993

1st, GP Villafranca de Ordizia

1st, Stage 3, Bicicleta Vasca

1994

1st, GP Villafranca de Ordizia

1995

National Road Race Championship

1st, GP Villafranca de Ordizia

1st, Overall, Tasmania Summer Tour 1st, Prologue & Stage 3

1996

1st, Overall, Vuelta a Andalucía

1st, Stage 5, Tour of the Basque Country

1997

1st, Stage 17, Tour de France

1998

1st, Stages 3 & 5, Tasmania Summer Tour

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