Jo de Roo

Johan de Roo, known as Jo de Roo, is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist, born on 5 July 1937, who raced between 1958 and 1968. In 11 seasons as a professional he took 46 wins, including six single-day classics, three stages of the Tour de France and one stage of the Vuelta a España, and he was the most successful rider from Zeeland until the emergence of Jan Raas. His best year was 1962, when he won Paris-Tours, the Giro di Lombardia and Bordeaux-Paris, took the Gerrit Schulte Trophy as Dutch cyclist of the year and won the Super Prestige Pernod. He repeated the Paris-Tours and Lombardia double in 1963, was Dutch road race champion in 1964, won the Tour of Flanders in 1965 and Omloop Het Volk in 1966, and retired at the end of 1968 at 31.