Johnny Weltz
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| Full name | Johnny Weltz | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 20 March 1962 Copenhagen,  Denmark | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | Fagor–MBK | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1993 | ONCE | ||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Artiach–Nabisco | ||||||||||||||
| 1995 | Motorola | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial teams | |||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Motorola | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | U.S. Postal Service | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2004 | Memory Card–Jack & Jones | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2016 | TIAA–CREF | ||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
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Johnny Weltz (born 20 March 1962) is a Danish retired road bicycle racer. He rode most of his career for the Spanish ONCE team.
In 1985 he won silver at the world championship for amateurs. The high point of his career was his victory at stage 19 (a mountain stage) of the 1988 Tour de France, and was 54 overall. He also won a stage in Vuelta a España the same year.
After his active career, he worked in various capacities for the professional teams Motorola, U.S. Postal Service, and Team CSC (back then called MemoryCard – Jack&Jones, and later CSC – World Online). Weltz was most recently a directeur sportif with Team Slipstream.[2]
Major results
[edit]- 1985
- 2nd
Road race, UCI Amateur World Road Championships - 8th Overall Milk Race
- 9th Overall Tour of Ireland
- 1986
- 8th Overall Milk Race
- 1987
- 1st Grand Prix La Marseillaise
- 1st GP de Plumelec-Morbihan
- 6th Grand Prix de Rennes
- 7th Overall Tour du Limousin
- 7th Bretagne Classic
- 8th Overall Route d'Occitanie
- 9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 9th Overall Tour of Ireland
- 9th Critérium des As
- 1988
- 1st Stage 15 Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 19 Tour de France
- 3rd Overall Tour du Limousin
- 4th Subida a Urkiola
- 1989
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st Stage 1 Tour of the Basque Country
- 7th GP Villafranca de Ordizia
- 9th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 1990
- 2nd GP de la Libération (TTT)
- 7th road race, UCI World Road Championships
- 1991
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Asturias
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya
- 2nd TTT GP de la Libération
- 2nd Circuito de Getxo
- 9th Milan–San Remo
- 1992
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Mallorca
- 9th Overall Tour de Picardie
- 1993
- 1st GP Miguel Induráin
- 1st Stage 2 TTT Paris–Nice
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 |
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 Vuelta a España
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42 | 53 | — | 28 | 48 | — | — | 51 | 90 |
 Giro d'Italia
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Did not contest during his career | ||||||||
| Tour de France
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— | 54 | — | DNF | DNF | 102 | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Johnny Weltz". procyclingstats. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- ^ "Riis associates "not my cup of tea" says Weltz". Cycling News. 5 September 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ "Johnny Weltz". firstcycling. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
External links
[edit]- Johnny Weltz at Cycling Archives
- Johnny Weltz at ProCyclingStats
- Johnny Weltz – official Tour de France results (archive)
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