Ján Svorada

Ján Svorada (born 28 August 1968 in Trenčín) is a retired Slovak and Czech road racing cyclist.

He was born in Czechoslovakia; when that country split up in 1993, he raced for Slovakia until 1996, when he started racing for the Czech Republic.

When Svorada won Stage 2 of the 1998 Tour de France he became a rarity in professional cycling because at that point he became a Tour de France stage winner who won at least one stage with two different nationalities. His first stage win at the Tour de France (Stage 7 in 1994) was obtained as a Slovak cyclist, and later he won also a stage in 1998 as a Czech rider.

He competed for the Czech Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Major results

1988 1st Stage 5 Olympia's Tour 1990

1st Stages 1, 2 & 9b 1st Stage 2 GP Tell 1992 1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie 2nd Overall GP du Midi-Libre 1st Stage 1 1993

7th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde 1994

Giro d'Italia 1st Stages 9, 11 & 17 1st Stage 5a Vuelta a Andalucía 1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie 1st Stage 7 Tour de France 1st Stage 5 Tour of Britain 1995 1st Stage 8 Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia 1996

1st Stages 4 & 5

1st Stage 1 Giro di Sardegna 1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse 1st Grand Prix de Denain 2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 1st Stage 1 4th Scheldeprijs Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stages 5a & 8 1997 Vuelta a España 1st Stages 11, 16 & 17 Volta a Catalunya 1st Stages 1a, 2 & 4 Tour of Galicia 1st Stages 1 & 3a 1st Stage 4 Giro di Sardegna 1st Stage 3 Volta a Portugal 3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 5th Paris–Tours 7th Overall Étoile de Bessèges 1st Stages 2, 3 & 5 7th CoreStates Classic 1998

1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 4 4 Jours de Dunkerque 1st Stage 2 Tour de France 1st First Union Classic 1st Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen 3rd Giro della Provincia di Siracusa Volta a Portugal 1st Stages 1 & 3 1999 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Murcia 1st Stage 8 Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Clásica de Almería 2000 1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Stage 1a Giro del Trentino 1st Stage 3 Giro d'Italia 2nd Clásica de Almería 2001 1st Stage 3 4 Jours de Dunkerque 1st Stage 2 GP du Midi-Libre 1st Stage 20 Tour de France (Champs-Élysées) 1st Profronde van Pijnacker 3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges 2002 Tour of Belgium 1st Stages 1 & 4 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia 1st Wiener Radfest 1st Linz 6th Scheldeprijs 8th Milan–San Remo 2003 1st Stage 1 International Tour of Rhodes 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia 1st Stage 1 Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali 3rd Overall Tour of Qatar 8th Milan–San Remo 2004 1st Stage 4 Giro del Trentino 1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie 1st Rokycany 7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise 2005

1st Stage 1 Bayern Rundfahrt 1st Stage 3 Rothaus Regio-Tour 3rd Stausee Rundfahrt 2006 5th Road race, National Road Championships 6th GP Hydraulika Mikolasek