# Ján Svorada

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
### 1988

    1st Stage 5 Olympia's Tour

### 1990

    1st Overall Peace Race
       1st Active rider classification
       1st Sprints classification
       1st Combination classification
       1st Stages 1, 2 & 9b
    1st Stage 2 GP Tell

### 1992

    1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie
    2nd Overall GP du Midi-Libre
       1st Stage 1

### 1993

    1st Intergiro classification Giro d'Italia
    7th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde

### 1994

    1st Overall GP du Midi-Libre
    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 9, 11 & 17
    1st Stage 5a Vuelta a Andalucía
    1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie
    1st Stage 7 Tour de France
    1st Stage 5 Tour of Britain

### 1995

    1st Stage 8 Tirreno–Adriatico
    1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia

### 1996

    1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges
       1st Stages 4 & 5
    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Stage 1 Giro di Sardegna
    1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse
    1st Grand Prix de Denain
    2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
       1st Stage 1
    4th Scheldeprijs
    Tirreno–Adriatico
       1st Stages 5a & 8

### 1997

    Vuelta a España
       1st Stages 11, 16 & 17
    Volta a Catalunya
       1st Stages 1a, 2 & 4
    Tour of Galicia
       1st Stages 1 & 3a
    1st Stage 4 Giro di Sardegna
    1st Stage 3 Volta a Portugal
    3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
    5th Paris–Tours
    7th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
       1st Stages 2, 3 & 5
    7th CoreStates Classic

### 1998

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico
    1st Stage 4 4 Jours de Dunkerque
    1st Stage 2 Tour de France
    1st First Union Classic
    1st Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
    3rd Giro della Provincia di Siracusa
    Volta a Portugal
       1st Stages 1 & 3

### 1999

    1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Murcia
    1st Stage 8 Tirreno–Adriatico
    1st Clásica de Almería

### 2000

    1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico
    1st Stage 1a Giro del Trentino
    1st Stage 3 Giro d'Italia
    2nd Clásica de Almería

### 2001

    1st Stage 3 4 Jours de Dunkerque
    1st Stage 2 GP du Midi-Libre
    1st Stage 20 Tour de France (Champs-Élysées)
    1st Profronde van Pijnacker
    3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges

### 2002

    Tour of Belgium
       1st Stages 1 & 4
    1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia
    1st Wiener Radfest
    1st Linz
    6th Scheldeprijs
    8th Milan–San Remo

### 2003

    1st Stage 1 International Tour of Rhodes
    1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia
    1st Stage 1 Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali
    3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
    8th Milan–San Remo

### 2004

    1st Stage 4 Giro del Trentino
    1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie
    1st Rokycany
    7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

### 2005

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Stage 1 Bayern Rundfahrt
    1st Stage 3 Rothaus Regio-Tour
    3rd Stausee Rundfahrt

### 2006

    5th Road race, National Road Championships
    6th GP Hydraulika Mikolasek