Jo de Roo

Jo de Roo

Jo de Roo in 1967
Personal information
Full name	Johan de Roo
Born	(1937-07-05) 5 July 1937 (age 87) Schore, the Netherlands
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All Rounder
Amateur team
1954 - 1957	Unknown
Professional teams
1958-1959	Magneet-Vredestein
1960-1961	Helyett-Fynsec
1962	Saint-Raphael-Helyett
1963-1964	Saint-Raphael-Gitane
1965	Televizier
1966	Televizier-Batavus
1967-1968	Willem II-Gazelle
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 3 individual Stages 1 TTT Vuelta a España 1 individual Stage Stage Races Giro di Sardegna (1960) Single-Day Races and Classics Dutch Road Race Champion (1964, 1965) Tour of Flanders (1965) Giro di Lombardia (1962, 1963) Paris–Tours (1962, 1963) Bordeaux-Paris (1962) Other Super Prestige Pernod (1962)

Johan De Roo (born 5 July 1937) is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist between 1958 and 1968. During 11 seasons as a professional he had six victories in single-day classics, three stages of the Tour de France and one stage of the Vuelta a España. He had 46 wins as a professional. He was the most successful rider from Zeeland until the emergence of Jan Raas.