Petr Vakoč

Petr Vakoč
	Petr Vakoč (2015)
To person
Date of birth	July 11, 1992
nation	Czech Republic
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Deceuninck-Quick-Step
Most important successes
	UCI World Tour 2014 Tour de Pologne - 2nd stage
	Last updated: December 25, 2018

Petr Vakoč (born July 11, 1992 ) is a Czech road cyclist .

Athletic career

Petr Vakoč won a stage at the Tour du Pays de Vaud in the junior class in 2010 and was second overall. At the national championship he was third in the road race. In 2011 he drove for the Czech Continental Team ASC Dukla Praha . This year he became national champion in the individual time trial of the U23 class. At the road world championships in Copenhagen he was 15th in the U23 road race.

In 2013, among other things, Vakoč was U23 runner-up in road racing, won the Tour of Slovakia and the Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid . In 2014 he won a stage of the Tour de Pologne , in 2015 he became national road champion and won the Czech Cycling Tour and a stage of the Tour of Britain . In 2016 he won the Classic Sud Ardèche , La Drôme Classic and the Brabant Arrow race .

In January 2018, Petr Vakoč was hit by a truck in Mpumalanga in the east of Johannesburg, South Africa while he was training with his teammates Bob Jungels and Laurens De Plus . He broke several vertebrae, de Plus suffered minor injuries. Only in June of that year was Vakoč able to start training after a long rehabilitation, but did not contest a single race this year.

successes

2011

Czech Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)

2013

Overall ranking Tour of Slovakia
Overall ranking and one stage Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid (U23)
one stage Czech Cycling Tour
European Championship - Road Race (U23)
Grand Prix Královehradeckého Kraje

2014

University World Champion - Individual Time Trial
University World Champion - Road Race
a stage Tour de Pologne

2015

Czech champion - road race
Overall classification and team time trial Czech Cycling Tour
one stage Tour of Britain

2016

Young talent Tour du Haut-Var
Young talent Tour La Provence
Classic Sud Ardèche
La Drôme Classic
Brabant Arrow
Czech Championship - Individual Time Trial

2017

Czech Championship - Individual Time Trial

2019

Hammer Sprint Hammer Stavanger

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	116	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	118	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-

Teams

Web links

Commons : Petr Vakoč - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Petr Vakoč in the Radsportseiten.net database

Petr Vakoč in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

↑ Nick Doup: Petr Vakoč weer terug op de fiets. In: WielerFlits. Retrieved December 25, 2018 (Dutch).
↑ Vakoc could return to racing in 2019. In: Cyclingnews. October 30, 2018, accessed December 25, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Vakoč, Petr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1992

[wielerfl-Petr_Vak-1] Nick Doup: Petr Vakoč weer terug op de fiets. In: WielerFlits. Retrieved December 25, 2018 (Dutch).

[cyclingn-2019-2] Vakoc could return to racing in 2019. In: Cyclingnews. October 30, 2018, accessed December 25, 2018 .