Slovakian road bicycle racer

Peter Velits (born 21 February 1985 in Bratislava) is a Slovakian former professional road racing cyclist. His career highlights included third place overall and a stage win at the 2010 Vuelta a España, the 2007 World Under-23 Road Race Championships gold and the 2012 Tour of Oman overall victory. Velits was also known as strong time-trialist, winning three consecutive team time trials as a part of Omega Pharma–Quick-Step in 2012 and 2013 and riding on the BMC Racing Team in 2014 UCI Road World Championships. His twin brother, Martin Velits also competed professionally, having raced on the same teams every year until the end of the 2013 season.

After two seasons with the team, Velits left Omega Pharma–Quick-Step at the end of the 2013 season to join the BMC Racing Team. He remained with the team until he retired at the end of the 2016 season.

Contents

• 1 Major results
  • 1.1 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
• 2 References
• 3 External links

Major results

2003National Junior Road Championships1st Road race1st Time trial20047th Overall Tour d'Egypte10th Overall UAE Emirates Post Tour10th Grand Prix Bradlo20051st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Navarra3rd Overall Giro delle Regioni6th Overall Ringerike GP20061st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships1st Overall Giro del Capo1st Stage 21st Grand Prix Kooperativa2nd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell1st Stage 24th Overall Tour de Bretagne4th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem5th Overall Tour de la Somme9th Overall Tour of *an20071st Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships1st Grand Prix de Fourmies3rd GP Triberg-Schwarzwald9th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt1st Young rider cl*ification9th Overall Giro del Capo2008 Combativity award Stage 17 Tour de France20091st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton3rd Clásica de San Sebastián5th Gran Premio di Lugano6th Prague–Karlovy Vary–Prague7th Monte Paschi Eroica8th GP Triberg-Schwarzwald10th Milan–San Remo20103rd Overall Vuelta a España1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 17 (ITT)10th Overall Volta ao Algarve20121st Team time trial, UCI Road World ChampionshipsNational Road Championships1st Time trial2nd Road race1st Overall Tour of Oman20131st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships1st Time trial, National Road Championships10th Overall Paris–Nice20141st Team time trial, UCI Road World ChampionshipsNational Road Championships1st Time trial2nd Road race9th Overall Dubai Tour9th Overall Paris–Nice2015Vuelta a España1st Stage 1 (TTT)Held after Stage 1

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

Did not finish = DNF

References

External links

• Peter Velits at ProCyclingStats
• Palmares on Cycling Base (French)