Johnny Weltz (born 20 March 1962) is a Danish retired road bicycle racer. He rode most of his career for the Spanish 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 , , and (back then called MemoryCard – Jack&Jones, and later CSC – World Online). Weltz was most recently a directeur sportif with Team Slipstream.
Major results Sources:
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 Vuelta a España 42 53 — 28 48 — — 51 90 Giro d'ItaliaDid not contest during his career Tour de France — 54 — DNF DNF 102 — — —
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
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