Johan van der Velde

Johan van der Velde
	Van der Velde in 1982
Personal information
Full name	Johan van der Velde
Born	12 December 1956 (age 67); Rijsbergen, Netherlands
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1978–1983	TI–Raleigh–McGregor
1984–1985	Metauro Mobili–Pinarello
1986	Panasonic–Merckx–Agu
1987–1988	Gis Gelati–Jollyscarpe
1988–1989	TVM–Van Schilt
1989	Carrera Jeans–Vagabond
1990	IOC–Tulip Computers
1990	Orbea–Alimentos de España
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France Young rider classification (1980) 3 individual stages (1981, 1986) 5 TTT stages (1980, 1981, 1982) Giro d'Italia Points classification (1985, 1987, 1988) 3 individual stages (1986, 1987) Stage Races Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1980) Tour de Romandie (1978) Ronde van Nederland (1978) Tour of Britain (1978) One-Day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1980, 1982) Brabantse Pijl (1986) Zürich-Metzgete (1983)

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.