Simon Paul van Velthooven (born 8 December 1988) is a New Zealand track racing cyclist and America's Cup sailor.

Van Velthooven was born in Palmerston North in 1988. He has two younger sisters; his youngest sister, Emily, works as a journalist for Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Simon won New Zealand's first sprint cycling medal in the men's keirin at the 2012 Summer Olympics jointly with Teun Mulder after the race officials were unable to separate the two in a photo finish for third place. He has also won multiple World Championship and Commonwealth Games medals and was the 2012 World Cup champion in the 1:km time trial and keirin events In 2014, he won a silver in the 1000 m time trial at the Commonwealth Games.

Van Velthooven joined Team New Zealand in 2015 and was one of the original "cyclors" that helped develop the revolutionary boat and was a huge *et to the team that won the 2017 America's Cup for Team New Zealand.

References

External links

• Official website (archived in 2013)
• Simon van Velthooven at Cycling Archives
• Simon van Velthooven at CycleBase
• Simon van Velthooven at Olympedia
• Simon van Velthooven at the New Zealand Olympic Committee
• Simon van Velthooven at the Commonwealth Games Federation