Johan van der Velde, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Johan van der Velde

road bicycle racer

Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1956

Place of Birth: Rijsbergen, North Brabant, Netherlands

Profession: sport cyclist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Johan van der Velde (born 12 December 1956 in Rijsbergen) is a former Dutch cyclist.
In the 1980 Tour de France he won the young rider classification, also placing 12th in the general classification that year.
He had been a racing cyclist for only a year.
In the 1981 Tour de France he took first place on the second and 21st stages, finishing 12th overall for the second year.
He rode with TI–Raleigh in the Tour de France from 1979 to 1983, and the Panasonic team where he won Stage 5 and wore the Yellow Jersey for two days in the 1986 Tour de France.