Personal information | |
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Full name | Jussi Veikkanen |
Born | Riihimäki, Finland | 29 March 1981
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Groupama–FDJ |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider (retired) Directeur sportif |
Rider type | All-rounder |
Amateur teams | |
2001 | Top Kärnten–Giant |
2002–2003 | Mälarenergi–Sime |
2004 | VC Roubaix |
Professional teams | |
2005–2010 | Française des Jeux |
2011 | Omega Pharma–Lotto |
2012–2015 | FDJ–BigMat [1] |
Managerial team | |
2016– | FDJ (directeur sportif) |
Major wins | |
National Road Race Championships (2003, 2005–2006, 2008, 2010, 2013–2014) |
Jussi Veikkanen (born 29 March 1981) is a Finnish former road racing cyclist, who rode as a professional between 2005 and 2015 for the Omega Pharma–Lotto and FDJ teams. [2] He won the Finnish National Road Race Championships seven times between 2003 and 2014. [3]
Born in Riihimäki, Veikkanen started his career with team Mälarenergi and he became a professional cyclist in 2005 with Française des Jeux.
After a long breakaway on stage 2 of the 2009 Tour de France he donned the polka-dot jersey as the leader of the mountains classification. He kept the jersey until stage 6, when Stéphane Augé took it.
He signed with Omega Pharma–Lotto for the 2011 season, [4] but rejoined FDJ–BigMat for the 2012 season. [5]
Veikkanen announced ahead of the 2015 edition of the Tour de Vendée that the race would be his last as a professional, and that he would remain with FDJ as a member of staff after retiring from the road. [2]
Grand Tour | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Giro d'Italia | — | 70 | 44 | 50 | — | — | 119 | 146 | — | 109 | 147 |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | 106 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Vuelta a España | DNF | — | 135 | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | DNF |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
Media related to Jussi Veikkanen at Wikimedia Commons
Personal information | |
---|---|
Full name | Jussi Veikkanen |
Born | Riihimäki, Finland | 29 March 1981
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Groupama–FDJ |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider (retired) Directeur sportif |
Rider type | All-rounder |
Amateur teams | |
2001 | Top Kärnten–Giant |
2002–2003 | Mälarenergi–Sime |
2004 | VC Roubaix |
Professional teams | |
2005–2010 | Française des Jeux |
2011 | Omega Pharma–Lotto |
2012–2015 | FDJ–BigMat [1] |
Managerial team | |
2016– | FDJ (directeur sportif) |
Major wins | |
National Road Race Championships (2003, 2005–2006, 2008, 2010, 2013–2014) |
Jussi Veikkanen (born 29 March 1981) is a Finnish former road racing cyclist, who rode as a professional between 2005 and 2015 for the Omega Pharma–Lotto and FDJ teams. [2] He won the Finnish National Road Race Championships seven times between 2003 and 2014. [3]
Born in Riihimäki, Veikkanen started his career with team Mälarenergi and he became a professional cyclist in 2005 with Française des Jeux.
After a long breakaway on stage 2 of the 2009 Tour de France he donned the polka-dot jersey as the leader of the mountains classification. He kept the jersey until stage 6, when Stéphane Augé took it.
He signed with Omega Pharma–Lotto for the 2011 season, [4] but rejoined FDJ–BigMat for the 2012 season. [5]
Veikkanen announced ahead of the 2015 edition of the Tour de Vendée that the race would be his last as a professional, and that he would remain with FDJ as a member of staff after retiring from the road. [2]
Grand Tour | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Giro d'Italia | — | 70 | 44 | 50 | — | — | 119 | 146 | — | 109 | 147 |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | 106 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Vuelta a España | DNF | — | 135 | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | DNF |
— | Did not compete |
---|---|
DNF | Did not finish |
Media related to Jussi Veikkanen at Wikimedia Commons