Ján Svorada Explained
Ján Svorada (born 28 August 1968 in Trenčín) is a retired Slovak and Czech road racing cyclist.
He was born in Czechoslovakia; when that country split up in 1993, he raced for Slovakia until 1996, when he started racing for the Czech Republic.
When Svorada won Stage 2 of the 1998 Tour de France he became a rarity in professional cycling because at that point he became a Tour de France stage winner who won at least one stage with two different nationalities. His first stage win at the Tour de France (Stage 7 in 1994) was obtained as a Slovak cyclist, and later he won also a stage in 1998 as a Czech rider.
He competed for the Czech Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1]
Major results
- 1988
1st Stage 5 Olympia's Tour
- 1990
1st Overall Peace Race
1st Active rider classification
1st Sprints classification
1st Combination classification
1st Stages 1, 2 & 9b
1st Stage 2 GP Tell
- 1992
1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie
2nd Overall GP du Midi-Libre
1st Stage 1
- 1993
1st Intergiro classification Giro d'Italia
7th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde
- 1994
1st Overall GP du Midi-Libre
Giro d'Italia
1st Stages 9, 11 & 17
1st Stage 5a Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie
1st Stage 7 Tour de France
1st Stage 5 Tour of Britain
- 1995
1st Stage 8 Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia
- 1996
1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges
1st Stages 4 & 5
1st Road race, National Road Championships
1st Stage 1 Giro di Sardegna
1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse
1st Grand Prix de Denain
2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
1st Stage 1
4th Scheldeprijs
Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Stages 5a & 8
- 1997
Vuelta a España
1st Stages 11, 16 & 17
Volta a Catalunya
1st Stages 1a, 2 & 4
Tour of Galicia
1st Stages 1 & 3a
1st Stage 4 Giro di Sardegna 1st Stage 3 Volta a Portugal
3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
5th Paris–Tours
7th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
1st Stages 2, 3 & 5
7th CoreStates Classic
- 1998
1st Road race, National Road Championships
1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Stage 4 4 Jours de Dunkerque
1st Stage 2 Tour de France
1st First Union Classic
1st Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
3rd Giro della Provincia di Siracusa
Volta a Portugal
1st Stages 1 & 3
- 1999
1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Murcia
1st Stage 8 Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Clásica de Almería
- 2000
1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Stage 1a Giro del Trentino
1st Stage 3 Giro d'Italia
2nd Clásica de Almería
- 2001
1st Stage 3 4 Jours de Dunkerque
1st Stage 2 GP du Midi-Libre
1st Stage 20 Tour de France (Champs-Élysées)
1st Profronde van Pijnacker
3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 2002
Tour of Belgium
1st Stages 1 & 4
1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia
1st Wiener Radfest
1st Linz
6th Scheldeprijs
8th Milan–San Remo
- 2003
1st Stage 1 International Tour of Rhodes
1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia
1st Stage 1 Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali
3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
8th Milan–San Remo
- 2004
1st Stage 4 Giro del Trentino
1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie
1st Rokycany
7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 2005
1st Road race, National Road Championships
1st Stage 1 Bayern Rundfahrt
1st Stage 3 Rothaus Regio-Tour
3rd Stausee Rundfahrt
- 2006
5th Road race, National Road Championships
6th GP Hydraulika MikolasekExternal links
Notes and References
- Ján Svorada . https://web.archive.org/web/20161204013424/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sv/jan-svorada-1.html . 4 December 2016.
