Ján Svorada

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

Ján Svorada

Personal information
Born	(1968-08-28) 28 August 1968 (age 56) 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)

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.^[1]