Peter Velits
Velits at the 2015 Grand Prix Pino Cerami | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Peter Velits | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, (now Slovakia) | 21 February 1985||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
Career achievements
Major results
- 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
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
57 | 30 | — | 18 | 27 | 25 | 27 | — | |
— | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | DNF |
Did not finish = DNF
References
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Peter Velits. |
- Peter Velits at ProCyclingStats
- Palmares on Cycling Base (French)
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