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
- Overall evaluation of the peace drive
1992
- a stage Tour de Romandie
1993
- Intergiro rating Giro d'Italia
1994
- a stage Tour de Romandie
- three stages of the Giro d'Italia
- Overall ranking Midi Libre
- a stage Tour de France
1995
- a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
| 1996
- Overall ranking Etoile de Bessèges
- a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
- GP de Denain
- one stage Tour de Suisse
- Czech champion street
1997
- three stages tour of Catalonia
- three stages Vuelta a España
1998
- a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
- Czech champion street
- a stage Tour de France
- GP Rik Van Steenbergen
| 1999
- a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
2000
- Clásica de Almería
- a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
2001
- a stage Tour de France
2004
- a stage Tour de Romandie
2005
Teams
- 1991 Colnago-Lampre
- 1992 Lampre-Colnago
- 1993 Lampre-Polti
- 1994 Lampre-Ceramica Panaria
- 1995 Lampre-Ceramica Panaria
- 1996 Ceramiche Panaria-Vinavil
- 1997 Mapei-GB
- 1998 Mapei-Bricobi
- 1999 Lampre-Daikin
- 2000 Lampre-Daikin
- 2001 Lampre-Daikin
- 2002 Lampre-Daikin
- 2003 Lampre
- 2004 Lampre
- 2005 eD'System-ZVVZ
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
- ↑ Král cyklistiky. Retrieved April 8, 2019 (Czech).
Web links
- Ján Svorada in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Ján Svorada in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Ján Svorada in the Tour de France database(French / English )
personal data | |
---|---|
SURNAME | Svorada, Jan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 28, 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Trenčín |