Jussi Veikkanen

  • Stage Germany Tour 2008
  • Finnish road champion in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008
  • Mountain jersey in the Tour de France 2009 (4 stages)

Jussi Veikkanen ( born March 29, 1981 in Riihimäki ) is a Finnish racing driver.

Career

In his younger years Veikkanen drove Cyclocross and was in the sport in 1998 and 1999 Finnish junior champion. As he drove the team Mälarenergi 2003, he became Finnish Champion on the road in the elite class. Then he came to the espoir ( U23 Men ) of the VC Roubaix in France.

After a year in which Veikkanen showed good performances and the Grand Prix Marbriers won, he moved to the ProTour team Française des Jeux. In 2005 he repeated winning the league title in Finland. At the start of the 2006 season, he won the race Gabonese La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimba. On 2 July 2006, he became Finnish Champion in Rovaniemi again. On August 23, he won the second stage of the Tour du Poitou -Charentes.

On 4 September 2008 he won the sixth stage of the Tour of Germany 189 km from Bad Fredeburg to Neuss.

In the 2009 Tour de France Veikkanen contributed from the third up to the sixth stage of the mountain jersey.

Achievements

  • Finland Finnish Champion - Road Race
  • Finland Finnish Champion - Road Race
  • Ranking La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
  • Finland Finnish Champion - Road Race
  • A stage of the Tour du Poitou -Charentes
  • Finland Finnish Champion - Road Race
  • A stage Germany Tour
  • Four stages in the mountains jersey at the Tour de France
  • A stage Tour Méditerranéen
  • Finland Finnish Champion - Road Race
  • Finland Finnish Champion - Road Race

Team

  • 2005 Francaise des Jeux
  • 2006 Francaise des Jeux
  • 2007 Francaise des Jeux
  • 2008 Francaise des Jeux
  • 2009 Francaise des Jeux
  • 2010 Francaise des Jeux
  • 2011 Omega Pharma-Lotto
  • 2012 FDJ - Big Mat
  • 2013 FDJ.fr
2007 Tour de Romandie 2008 Deutschland Tour Cyclo-cross Paul Nyman
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