# Peter Velits

Peter Velits (born 21 February 1985 in Bratislava) is a Slovakian former professional road racing cyclist. His career highlights included third place overall and a stage win at the 2010 Vuelta a España, the 2007 World Under-23 Road Race Championships gold and the 2012 Tour of Oman overall victory. Velits was also known as strong time-trialist, winning three consecutive team time trials as a part of Omega Pharma–Quick-Step in 2012 and 2013 and riding on the BMC Racing Team in 2014 UCI Road World Championships. His twin brother, Martin Velits also competed professionally, having raced on the same teams every year until the end of the 2013 season.
After two seasons with the team, Velits left Omega Pharma–Quick-Step at the end of the 2013 season to join the BMC Racing Team. He remained with the team until he retired at the end of the 2016 season.

## Major results
### 2003

    National Junior Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial

### 2004

    7th Overall Tour d'Egypte
    10th Overall UAE Emirates Post Tour
    10th Grand Prix Bradlo

### 2005

    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Navarra
    3rd Overall Giro delle Regioni
    6th Overall Ringerike GP

### 2006

    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    1st Overall Giro del Capo
       1st Stage 2
    1st Grand Prix Kooperativa
    2nd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
       1st Stage 2
    4th Overall Tour de Bretagne
    4th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
    5th Overall Tour de la Somme
    9th Overall Tour of Japan

### 2007

    1st Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
    1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
    3rd GP Triberg-Schwarzwald
    9th Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
       1st Young rider classification
    9th Overall Giro del Capo

### 2008

    Combativity award Stage 17 Tour de France

### 2009

    1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    3rd Clásica de San Sebastián
    5th Gran Premio di Lugano
    6th Prague–Karlovy Vary–Prague
    7th Monte Paschi Strade Bianche
    8th GP Triberg-Schwarzwald
    10th Milan–San Remo

### 2010

    3rd Overall Vuelta a España
       1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 17 (ITT)
    10th Overall Volta ao Algarve

### 2012

    1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    1st Overall Tour of Oman

### 2013

    1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    10th Overall Paris–Nice

### 2014

    1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    9th Overall Dubai Tour
    9th Overall Paris–Nice

### 2015

    Vuelta a España
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)
       Held after Stage 1

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
| Giro d'Italia | Did not contest during career | Did not contest during career | Did not contest during career | Did not contest during career | Did not contest during career | Did not contest during career | Did not contest during career | Did not contest during career |
| Tour de France | 57 | 30 | — | 18 | 27 | 25 | 27 | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — | DNF |
Did not finish = DNF