Johnny Weltz
Personal information
Full nameJohnny Weltz
Born (1962-03-20) 20 March 1962
Copenhagen,  Denmark
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1987–1988Fagor–MBK
1989–1993ONCE
1994Artiach–Nabisco
1995Motorola
Managerial teams
1996Motorola
1997–1999U.S. Postal Service
2000–2004Memory Card–Jack & Jones
2005–2016TIAA–CREF
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual Stage (1988)
Vuelta a España
1 individual Stage (1988)
1 TTT Stage (1991)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1989)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing  Denmark
World Championships
Silver medal – second place1985 Giavara del MontelloAmateur's Road Race

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

Sources:[1][3]

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

Grand Tour 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
A yellow jersey Vuelta a España 42 53 28 48 51 90
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia Did not contest during his career
A yellow jersey Tour de France 54 DNF DNF 102
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Johnny Weltz". procyclingstats. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  2. "Riis associates "not my cup of tea" says Weltz". Cycling News. 5 September 2012. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  3. "Johnny Weltz". firstcycling. Retrieved 18 January 2021.


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