Ján Svorada
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.
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 Mikolasek
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ján Svorada". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
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