Jussi Veikkanen (born 29 March 1981) is a

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former

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, who rode as a professional between 2005 and 2015 for the and teams. He won the

Finnish National Road Race Championships The Finnish National Road Race Championship is a cycling race where the Finnish cyclists decide who will become the champion for the year to come. The winners of each event are awarded with a symbolic cycling jersey, just like the national flag ...

seven times between 2003 and 2014.

Career

Born in

Riihimäki Riihimäki (literally "Drying barn hill") is a town and municipality in the south of Finland, about north of Helsinki and southeast of Tampere. An important railway junction is located in Riihimäki, since railway tracks from Riihimäki lead to ...

, Veikkanen started his career with team Mälarenergi and he became a professional cyclist in 2005 with . After a long breakaway on

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of the

2009 Tour de France The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It started on 4 July in the principality of Monaco with a individual time trial which included a section of the Circuit de Monaco. The race visite ...

he donned the polka-dot jersey as the leader of the

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. He kept the jersey until stage 6, when Stéphane Augé took it. He signed with for the 2011 season, but rejoined for the 2012 season. Veikkanen announced ahead of the 2015 edition of the

Tour de Vendée Tour of Vendée is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in October (Previously May) in the region of Vendée, France, finishing in a circuit inside La Roche-sur-Yon town. From 2005 until 2009, the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the ...

that the race would be his last as a professional, and that he would remain with as a member of staff after retiring from the road.

Major results

;2002 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::2nd

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;2003 : 1st MaillotFin

Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Circuit des Ardennes ;2004 : 1st

Grand Prix des Marbriers The Grand Prix des Marbriers is a road bicycle race held annually in France. It is organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the ...

: 2nd Overall Ruban Granitier Breton : National Road Championships ::3rd Road race ::3rd

: 4th

Paris–Troyes Paris–Troyes is an annual single-day road bicycle race in France between Paris and Troyes. First held in 1959, since 2005 it has been a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competiti ...

;2005 : 1st MaillotFin

Road race, National Road Championships : 5th

Grand Prix of Aargau Canton Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (german: Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau) is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town o ...

;2006 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotFin

Road race ::3rd

: 1st Overall

La Tropicale Amissa Bongo La Tropicale Amissa Bongo is a road cycling race held in Gabon and is part of the UCI Africa Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale ( ...

::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Overall

Tour du Poitou-Charentes Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a road bicycle race held annually in the former region of Poitou-Charentes (now Nouvelle-Aquitaine) France. It was first held in 1987 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI E ...

::1st Stage 2 : 8th Overall

Volta ao Distrito de Santarém The Volta ao Distrito de Santarém (Tour of Santarém District) was a multi-day road cycling race held annually in the District of Santárem, Portugal. From 2006 to 2008, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continenta ...

;2007 : 3rd Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimbo : 8th Overall

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;2008 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotFin

Road race ::2nd

: 1st Stage 4

Route du Sud The Route d'Occitanie is a road bicycle race with 4 stages held annually in Southern France. It was first held in 1977 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually held a week before the Tour de France ...

: 4th Overall

Tour de l'Ain Tour de l'Ain, also known as the Prix de l'Amitié, is an annual professional cycling stage race held in eastern France. G.P. de l'Amitié The first edition of the race was in 1970, as the G.P. de l'Amitié (Friendship G.P.). It was held over fo ...

: 5th Overall

Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium in the end of July. Between 1974 and 1995 it was reserved to amateurs. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a ...

: 10th Overall

Deutschland Tour The Deutschland Tour (English: ''Tour of Germany'' and sometimes ''Deutschland-Rundfahrt'' in German) is the most important multi-stage road bicycle race in Germany. Initially the race was held in May/June, but from 2005 until 2008 it was moved to ...

::1st Stage 6Veikkanen sprints ahead
www.cyclingnews.com 4 September 2008 ;2009 : 2nd Overall

: 3rd Overall

Tour du Haut Var The Tour du Haut Var ( en, Tour of the Haut Var) is an early-season two-day road bicycle race in the Var department region in the south of France. Until 2008 it was run as a one-day race, part of the UCI Europe Tour. In 2009, the race transformed ...

: 9th Overall

Tour Down Under The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 UCI WorldTe ...

: 9th

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Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

::Held

after Stages 2–5 ;2010 : 1st MaillotFin

Road race, National Road Championships : 6th Overall

::1st Stage 2 ;2013 : 1st MaillotFin

Road race, National Road Championships : 10th Overall

;2014 : 1st MaillotFin

Road race, National Road Championships ;2015 : National Road Championships ::2nd Road race ::3rd

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Veikkanen, Jussi 1981 births Living people People from Riihimäki Finnish male cyclists Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Finland Sportspeople from Kanta-Häme