Peter Velits
Peter Velits
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 Velits at the 2015 Grand Prix Pino Cerami | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Peter Velits | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1985-02-21) 21 February 1985 Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, (now Slovakia) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amateur team(s) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Dukla Trenčín | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Team Konica Minolta | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional team(s) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Wiesenhof | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Team Milram | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Team HTC–Columbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Omega Pharma–Quick-Step[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2016 | BMC Racing Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
Stage races
One-day races and Classics
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Medal record
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Peter Velits (born 21 February 1985 in Bratislava) is a retired Slovak professional road racing cyclist. His career highlights include third place overall and a stage win at the 2010 Vuelta a España, the 2007 World Under-23 Road Race Championships gold and the 2012 Tour of Oman overall victory.[2] Velits is also known as strong time-trialist, winning three consecutive team time trials as a part of Omega Pharma–Quick-Step in 2012 and 2013 and riding on the BMC Racing Team in 2014 UCI Road World Championships. His twin brother, Martin Velits rides for Etixx–Quick-Step, having raced on the same teams every year until the end of the 2013 season.
After two seasons with the team, Velits left Omega Pharma–Quick-Step at the end of the 2013 season to join the BMC Racing Team.[3]
Velits retired at the end of the 2016 season.[4]
Contents
1 Career achievements
1.1 Major results
1.2 Grand Tour general classification results timeline
2 References
3 External links
Career achievements[edit]
Major results[edit]
- 2003
- 1st
National Junior Road Race Championships
- 1st National Junior Time Trial Championships
- 2004
- 7th Overall Tour d'Egypte
- 10th Overall UAE Emirates Post Tour
- 10th Grand Prix Bradlo
- 2005
- 1st National Under–23 Time Trial Championships
- 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Navarra
- 3rd Overall Giro delle Regioni
- 6th Overall Ringerike GP
- 2006
- 1st National Under–23 Time Trial Championships
- 1st Overall Giro del Capo
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Grand Prix Kooperativa
- 2nd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
- 1st Stage 2
- 4th Overall Tour de Bretagne Cycliste
- 4th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
- 5th Overall Tour de la Somme
- 9th Overall Tour of Japan
- 2007
- 1st
UCI World Under–23 Road Race Championships
- 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 3rd GP Triberg-Schwarzwald
- 9th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
- 1st Young riders classification
- 9th Overall Giro del Capo
- 2008
- 2nd World's View Challenge 5
- 10th World's View Challenge 2
Most Combative Rider for Stage 17, Tour de France
- 2009
- 1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 4th Clásica de San Sebastián
- 5th Gran Premio di Lugano
- 6th Praha–Karlovy Vary–Praha
- 7th Monte Paschi Eroica
- 8th GP Triberg-Schwarzwald
- 10th Milan–San Remo
- 2010
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 17 (ITT)
- 10th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 2012
- 1st
UCI World Team Time Trial Championships
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 1st
Overall Tour of Oman
- 2nd National Road Race Championships
- 2013
- 1st UCI World Team Time Trial Championships
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 10th Overall Paris–Nice
- 2014
- 1st UCI World Team Time Trial Championships
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 2nd National Road Race Championships
- 9th Overall Dubai Tour
- 9th Overall Paris–Nice
- 2015
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
- Held after Stage 1
- Held
National Junior Road Race Championships
UCI World Under–23 Road Race Championships
Most Combative Rider for Stage 17, Tour de France
UCI World Team Time Trial Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]
Grand Tour | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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 Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France | 57 | 30 | — | 18 | 27 | 25 | 27 | — |
 Vuelta a España | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | DNF |
Did not finish = DNF
References[edit]
^ "Les frères Velits chez Omega Pharma-Quick Step" [The brothers Velits at Omega Pharma-Quick Step]. rtbf.be (in French). RTBF. 2 August 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2012..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "Velits claims Oman title". Sky Sports. BSkyB. 19 February 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
^ "Peter Velits leaving Omega Pharma-Quickstep for BMC Racing". Sky Sports. BSkyB. 10 August 2013. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
^ "Peter Velits announces retirement from cycling". CyclingNews. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
External links[edit]
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Peter Velits. |
Peter Velits at ProCyclingStats
- Palmares on Cycling Base (French)
 UCI Road World Champions – Men's team time trial | |
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Categories:
- Slovak male cyclists
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Bratislava
- Vuelta a España stage winners
- Twin people from Slovakia
- Twin sportspeople
- Tour de France cyclists
- Vuelta a España cyclists
- UCI Road World Champions (elite men)
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