Johnny Weltz

Johnny Weltz (born 20 March 1962) is a Danish retired road bicycle racer. He rode most of his career for the Spanish ONCE team.

Johnny Weltz

Personal information
Full name	Johnny Weltz
Born	(1962-03-20) 20 March 1962 Copenhagen,  Denmark
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Weight	65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1987–1988	Fagor–MBK
1989–1993	ONCE
1994	Artiach–Nabisco
1995	Motorola
Managerial teams
1996	Motorola
1997–1999	U.S. Postal Service
2000–2004	Memory Card–Jack & Jones
2005–2016	TIAA–CREF
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual Stage (1988) Vuelta a España 1 individual Stage (1988) 1 TTT Stage (1991) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (1989)
Medal record Men's road bicycle racing Representing  Denmark World Championships 1985 Giavara del Montello Amateur's Road Race

In 1985 he won silver at the world championship for amateurs. The high point of his career was his victory at stage 19 (a mountain stage) of the 1988 Tour de France, and was 54 overall. He also won a stage in Vuelta a España the same year.

After his active career, he worked in various capacities for the professional teams Motorola, U.S. Postal Service, and Team CSC (back then called MemoryCard – Jack&Jones, and later CSC – World Online). Weltz was most recently a directeur sportif with Team Slipstream.[2]