TOUR·KINETIC

Jayco AlUla · 2026 Tour de France
GC leader
Ben O'Connor

Australia's premier GC rider joined the Australian super-team in 2025 after years on French squads and promptly won the Tour's queen stage at Courchevel.

Ben O'Connor paper-collage portrait in the 2026 Jayco AlUla kit

Australia's premier GC rider joined the Australian super-team in 2025 after years on French squads and promptly won the Tour's queen stage at Courchevel. Fourth overall in 2021, second at the 2024 Vuelta and a world championship silver medallist, the Perth climber says he'll 'do everything I can to get back to the top five'. When the road tilts up, he is Jayco's ace.

Palmarès

  • Tour de France stage winner (2021 Tignes, 2025 Courchevel) and 4th GC (2021)
  • Vuelta a España 2nd overall + stage win (2024)
  • World Championships road race silver medal (2024)
  • Giro d'Italia stage winner (2020) and 4th GC (2024)
  • World Championships mixed team relay gold (2024)
Cut-out factOne of the very few active riders with stage wins in all three Grand Tours — and famous for brutally honest post-race interviews.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Pascal Ackermann, Luke Durbridge, Felix Engelhardt, Michael Matthews, Kelland O'Brien, Luke Plapp, Mauro Schmid — see the full Jayco AlUla team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: todaycycling.com, author: see source, license: see source. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.