Patrick Jonker

Patrick Jonker (born 25 May 1969) is an Australian retired road bicycle racer from Dutch and German ancestry. He was a professional rider from 1993 to 2004. Jonker represented Australia twice at the Summer Olympics, in 1992 and 1996. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. The highlights of his career include wins in the 1997 Route du Sud, the 1999 Grand Prix de Wallonie and ending his career with a high profile victory in the 2004 Tour Down Under. In 2012, he denied any involvement in doping practices at during his stint in the team in the 2000 season following the Lance Armstrong doping affair. He stated that the seven titles in the Tour de France that Armstrong won should be voided since the doping tests were unreliable at that time in his opinion.

Major results

1991 3rd Overall GP Tell 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games Road Race 1993 1st Stage 5 Milk Race 3rd Overall Teleflex Tour 8th Overall Tour of Sweden 1994 4th Overall Route du Sud 5th Road race, Dutch National Road Championships 6th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 8th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1995 2nd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe 3rd Dutch Food Valley Classic 1996 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya 1st Stage 4 5th Classique des Alpes 8th Time trial, Summer Olympics 9th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre 1997 1st Overall Route du Sud 2nd Overall Regio-Tour 4th Tour du Haut Var 1998

4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 10th Overall Euskal Bizikleta 1999 1st Grand Prix de Wallonie 2nd Overall Route du Sud 4th Road race, Dutch National Road Championships 6th Overall Tour of Britain 8th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 10th Brabantse Pijl 2001 2nd Overall Tour du Limousin 3rd GP Ouest-France 4th Grand Prix d'Isbergues 5th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 7th Overall Tour Down Under 8th Overall Tour de l'Ain 2002 3rd Overall Tour Down Under 10th GP Villafranca de Ordizia 2003 3rd Road race, Australian National Road Championships 7th Overall Tour Down Under 2004 1st Overall Tour Down Under

Grand Tour general classification results timeline