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Peter Velits

Slovak road bicycle racer

Field	Value
name	Peter Velits
image	Saint-Ghislain - Grand Prix Pino Cerami, 22 juillet 2015, départ (B146).JPG
caption	Velits at the 2015 Grand Prix Pino Cerami
fullname	Peter Velits
birth_date
birth_place	Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, (now Slovakia)
height	1.81 m
weight	65 kg
currentteam	Retired
discipline	Road
role	Rider
ridertype	All-rounder
amateuryears1	2004
amateurteam1
amateuryears2	2005–2006
amateurteam2
proyears1	2007
proteam1
proyears2	2008–2009
proteam2
proyears3	2010–2011
proteam3
proyears4	2012–2013
proteam4
proyears5	2014–2016
proteam5
majorwins	Grand Tours

:Vuelta a España ::1 individual stage (2010) ::2 TTT stages (2010, 2015) Stage races :Tour of Oman (2012) One-day races and Classics :National Time Trial Championships (2012, 2013, 2014) :GP de Fourmies (2007) Peter Velits (born 21 February 1985 in Bratislava) is a Slovak 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 in 2012 and 2013 and riding on the 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 at the end of the 2013 season to join the . He remained with the team until he retired at the end of the 2016 season.

Major results

;2003 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st [[File:MaillotSlovakia.svg|20px]] Road race ::1st [[File:MaillotSlovakia.svg|20px]] Time trial ;2004 : 7th Overall Tour d'Egypte : 10th Overall UAE Emirates Post Tour : 10th Grand Prix Bradlo ;2005 : 1st [[File:MaillotSlovakia.svg|20px]] Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships : 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Navarra : 3rd Overall Giro delle Regioni : 6th Overall Ringerike GP ;2006 : 1st [[File:MaillotSlovakia.svg|20px]] Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships : 1st Overall Giro del Capo ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Grand Prix Kooperativa : 2nd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell ::1st Stage 2 : 4th Overall Tour de Bretagne : 4th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem : 5th Overall Tour de la Somme : 9th Overall Tour of Japan ;2007 : 1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships : 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies : 3rd GP Triberg-Schwarzwald : 9th Overall Bayern Rundfahrt ::1st Young rider classification : 9th Overall Giro del Capo ;2008 : [[File:Jersey red number.svg|20px]] Combativity award Stage 17 Tour de France ;2009 : 1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton : 3rd Clásica de San Sebastián : 5th Gran Premio di Lugano : 6th Prague–Karlovy Vary–Prague : 7th Monte Paschi Strade Bianche : 8th GP Triberg-Schwarzwald : 10th Milan–San Remo ;2010 : 3rd Overall Vuelta a España ::1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 17 (ITT) : 10th Overall Volta ao Algarve ;2012 : 1st [[File:Gold medal blank.svg|15px]] Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships : National Road Championships ::1st [[File:MaillotSlovakia.svg|20px]] Time trial ::2nd Road race : 1st [[File:Jersey red.svg|20px]] Overall Tour of Oman ;2013 : 1st [[File:Gold medal blank.svg|15px]] Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships : 1st [[File:MaillotSlovakia.svg|20px]] Time trial, National Road Championships : 10th Overall Paris–Nice ;2014 : 1st [[File:Gold medal blank.svg|15px]] Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships : National Road Championships ::1st [[File:MaillotSlovakia.svg|20px]] Time trial ::2nd Road race : 9th Overall Dubai Tour : 9th Overall Paris–Nice ;2015 : Vuelta a España ::1st Stage 1 (TTT)

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline ::data[format=table] | Grand Tour | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px|link=|alt=A pink jersey]] Giro d'Italia | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|link=|alt=A yellow jersey]] Tour de France | [[File:Jersey red.svg|20px|link=|alt=A red jersey]] Vuelta a España | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Did not contest during career}} | | | | | | | | | | | | | [56](2008-tour-de-france) | [30](2009-tour-de-france) | — | [18](2011-tour-de-france) | [27](2012-tour-de-france) | [25](2013-tour-de-france) | [27](2014-tour-de-france) | — | | | | | | — | — | **[3](2010-vuelta-a-espana)** | — | — | — | — | [DNF](2015-vuelta-a-espana) | | | | | :: Did not finish = DNF ## References ## References 1. (2 August 2011). ["Les frères Velits chez Omega Pharma-Quick Step"](http://www.rtbf.be/sport/cyclisme/detail_les-freres-velits-chez-omega-pharma-quick-step?id=6541483). *[[RTBF]]*. 2. (19 February 2012). ["Velits claims Oman title"](http://www1.skysports.com/cycling/news/15264/7531572/Velits-claims-Oman-title). *[[BSkyB]]*. 3. (10 August 2013). ["Peter Velits leaving Omega Pharma-Quickstep for BMC Racing"](http://www1.skysports.com/cycling/news/15264/8863616/peter-velits-leaving-omega-pharma-quickstep-for-bmc-racing). *[[BSkyB]]*. 4. ["Peter Velits announces retirement from cycling"](http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/peter-velits-announces-retirement-from-cycling/). ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Velits) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Velits?action=history). ::

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