# Johnny Hoogerland

Johnny Hoogerland (born 13 May 1983) is a Dutch former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2016 for the Van Hermet–Eurogifts, Jartazi–7Mobile, Van Vliet–EBH Elshof, Vacansoleil–DCM, Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela and Roompot–Oranje Peloton squads.
Due to the prominent bull-tattoo on his arm and his roots from the peninsula of Zuid-Beveland he is nicknamed the "Bull of Beveland". He had a reputation of being an aggressive rider who took part in long breakaways. His most notable victory was the overall classification of the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen in 2009, where he also won a stage.
Maintaining his love of the sport, post retirement, Hoogerland participated in the first UCI Gran Fondo World Championships in Scotland in 2023, as part of the inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships. Riding in the men's 40-44 years age class, Hoogerland won his career first rainbow jersey in the Gran Fondo road race.

## Career

In 2009 Hoogerland won the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen, taking stage 1 along the way. He finished in 12th place in both the Tour of Flanders and the GC of the Vuelta. He was the highest placed Dutchman in the men's road race at the 2009 World Championships, finishing in 14th place overall.
At the 2011 Tour de France Hoogerland won the Mountain jersey in the 6th stage. After losing it in the 8th stage, Hoogerland managed to recapture it in the 9th stage. In that same stage, he was then involved in a dramatic crash after a fellow breakaway rider, Team Sky's Juan Antonio Flecha, was sideswiped by a France Télévisions car, causing Hoogerland to crash into a barbed wire fence. Despite deep cuts to his legs, requiring 33 stitches, Hoogerland finished the stage, losing nearly 17 minutes as a result of the crash. Flecha and Hoogerland were jointly awarded the Combativity award for the day. In November 2014 Hoogerland announced that he had reached a compensation agreement with insurance company AIG over the incident.
In early February 2013, Hoogerland collided with a car while he was training in Spain, preparing for the Tour Méditerranéen. He was hospitalized and it was announced that he suffered five fractured ribs, a bruised liver and bone fractures to his spine. It was believed that he would miss the whole classics season. On 23 June 2013 he unexpectedly won the National Championship of the Netherlands.
Hoogerland joined Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Vacansoleil–DCM – folded at the end of the 2013 season.
In August 2014, Hoogerland was announced as the first signing for the new Dutch Pro-Continental Team Roompot, which formed for the 2015 season.

## Major results
### 2001

    1st Junior Tour of Flanders

### 2003

    8th Overall Olympia's Tour

### 2004

    1st Stage 2 Ruban Granitier Breton
    7th Ronde van Vlaanderen U23

### 2005

    2nd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
    3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
    3rd Brussels–Ingooigem
    7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
    8th Overall Olympia's Tour
    9th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig

### 2006

    10th Ronde van Drenthe

### 2007

    2nd Druivenkoers Overijse
    8th Overall Tour de Slovaquie
       1st Stage 2

### 2008

    1st Stage 3 Clasico Ciclistico Banfoandes
    3rd Overall Olympia's Tour
    3rd Overall Ringerike GP
    3rd Druivenkoers Overijse
    4th Overall Tour de Bretagne
    4th Vlaamse Pijl
    4th Hel van het Mergelland
    5th Overall Tour de Normandie
    6th Overall Tour de Hokkaido
    6th Ronde van Drenthe
    7th Schaal Sels-Merksem

### 2009

    1st Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
       1st Stage 1
    4th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    5th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    5th Giro di Lombardia
    8th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop

### 2010

    Tour de Pologne
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Sprints classification
    2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    3rd Overall Tour Méditerranéen
    4th Druivenkoers Overijse
    5th Overall Tour of Britain
       1st Mountains classification
    6th Halle–Ingooigem

### 2011

    3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
    4th Brabantse Pijl
    Tour de France
       Held after Stages 6–7 and 9–11
       Combativity award Stage 9

### 2012

    3rd Druivenkoers Overijse
    5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
    7th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
    8th Grand Prix de Wallonie
    8th Binche–Tournai–Binche
    9th Overall Volta ao Algarve

### 2013

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Amstel Curaçao Race

### 2014

    8th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | 58 | — | — | 105 |
| Tour de France | — | — | 74 | 57 | 101 | — |
| Vuelta a España | 12 | — | — | — | DNF | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |