About Jussi Veikkanen
Born 1981. Jussi Veikkanen is a Finnish sport cyclist, cyclo-cross cyclist and sporting director.
Jussi Veikkanen (born 29 March 1981) is a Finnish former road racing cyclist, who rode as a professional between 2005 and 2015 for the and teams. He won the Finnish National Road Race Championships seven times between 2003 and 2014.
Career Born in Riihimäki, Veikkanen started his career with team Mälarenergi and he became a professional cyclist in 2005 with .
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 for the 2011 season, but rejoined for the 2012 season.
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 as a member of staff after retiring from the road. 2009 2nd Overall Tour Méditerranéen 3rd Overall Tour du Haut Var 9th Overall Tour Down Under 9th Grand Prix d'Isbergues Tour de France
2010
6th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 1st Stage 2 2013
10th Overall Tour Down Under 2014
2015 National Road Championships 2nd Road race 3rd Time trial
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
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Who is Jussi Veikkanen?
road bicycle racer
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Jussi Veikkanen was born on 29 March 1981 in Riihimäki.
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Jussi Veikkanen is a sport cyclist, cyclo-cross cyclist and sporting director.
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Jussi Veikkanen is Finnish.
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