Ján Svorada

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Ján Svorada

Ján Svorada (born August 28, 1968 in Trenčín ) is a former Czech cyclist .

Athletic career

Svorada won the Peace Ride in 1990 , which at that time was still an amateur race. He then got a professional contract with Colnago-Lampre for the following season . He celebrated his first professional victory in 1992 with a stage win at the Tour de Romandie . At the Giro d'Italia 1994 he was the most successful sprinter with three stage wins. A little later he won the classic Tour de France preparatory race Midi Libre and later secured his first of a total of three stage wins at the 1994 Tour de France . The following year he won stages in the Giro d'Italia and the Tirreno-Adriatico . In 1996 he won the Etoile de Bessèges stage race and won his first one-day race, the GP de Denain . In the same year he became Czech road champion for the first time, which he repeated in 1998 and 2005.

In 1997 he switched to the successful Mapei team, where he drove for two years. In the first year he won three stages each of the Tour of Catalonia and the Vuelta a España . In his second year he won another stage in the Tour and he won the Belgian one-day race GP Rik Van Steenbergen . After that he returned to Italy to join Lampre-Daikin . In 2000 he was able to win the Clásica de Almería , as well as another stage in the Giro . After he clinched his third stage win in the 2001 Tour de France on the Champs-Elysées , things got a little quieter for the fast man. This was followed by stage wins in the Tour of Murcia, Tour of Belgium , the Giro del Trentino and the Tour de Romandie . He has been driving for the Czech ED'System-ZVVZ team since 2005 . In the German stage races Bayern-Rundfahrt and Regio Tour , he won stage wins.

After a total of 77 professional victories, the then 37-year-old Svorada ended his career by participating in the Czech one-day race Prague-Karlovy Vary-Prague in 2006.

Palmarès

1990

1992

1993

1994

1995

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1997

1998

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2000

2001

2004

2005

  • Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech champion - street

Teams

Honors

From 1995 to 1998 and 2003, Svorada was the winner of the annual survey on the Král cyklistiky ( cycling king ) of the Československý svaz cyklistiky cycling association.

Individual evidence

  1. Král cyklistiky. Retrieved April 8, 2019 (Czech).

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