Harry Sweeny joins EF Education-EasyPost for 2024 season

The 25-year-old Australian will join our team in 2024. It will be his fourth season as a pro. Harry is still discovering his limits as a racer. As a U23, he won Il Piccolo Lombardia and has since ridden the Tour de France, where, as a rookie, he finished third on a stage and rode onto the Champs-Élysées in the break, as jets trailed red, white, and blue streaks into the sky overhead. He has raced Paris-Roubaix in the wet and Liége-Bastogne-Liége. Yet, he still believes that his best is yet to come.

"My biggest ambition for the coming years is to reach my full potential as a rider," he says. "I love all of the different disciplines within cycling and am really looking forward to exploring them more with EF Education-EasyPost. I would love to be a part of the team that goes to try to win the Tour de France or goes to try to win the Tour of Flanders. I really love winning as a team and getting the most out of myself, so that is really my biggest goal and to really enjoy what I am doing."

As a kid growing up in Brisbane, where his family moved when he was a child, he played soccer and rugby and did gymnastics and swam. He took up triathlon as a schoolboy, but focused on cycling when he was a junior and was recovering from a running injury. He started out racing local crits. His athleticism soon shone and he was picked to race the world championships in Richmond, Virginia for the Australian national team.

"That was the most scary experience of my life," Sweeny says. "I vividly remember riding along the barriers in the first part of the race. It was pissing rain and there were all these Belgian guys scraping their knuckles against the fences to get positions and I just remember being so scared. So I decided then that if I was going to give it a proper shot, I was going to have to move to Belgium and find out what it was really like."