Ján Svorada

Ján Svorada

Personal information
Born	28 August 1968 Trenčín, Czechoslovakia
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Professional teams
1991–1995	Lampre
1996	Ceramiche Panaria
1997–1998	Mapei
1999–2004	Lampre-Daikin
2005	Ed' System ZVVZ
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 3 individual stages (1994, 1998, 2001) Giro d'Italia 5 individual stages (1994, 1995, 2000) Vuelta a España 3 individual stages (1997)

Ján Svorada (born 28 August 1968 in Trenčín) is a retired Slovak and Czech road racing cyclist.

He was born in Czechoslovakia; when that country split up in 1993, he raced for Slovakia until 1996, when he started racing for the Czech Republic.

When Svorada won Stage 2 of the 1998 Tour de France he became a rarity in professional cycling because at that point he became a Tour de France stage winner who won at least one stage with two different nationalities. His first stage win at the Tour de France (Stage 7 in 1994) was obtained as a Slovak cyclist, and later he won also a stage in 1998 as a Czech rider.

He competed for the Czech Republic at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics, and the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Major results