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,, , , and  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, '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 for the 2014 season, after his previous team –  – folded at the end of the 2013 season.

In August 2014, Hoogerland was announced as the first signing for the new Dutch Pro-Continental, 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 Jersey violet.svg Mountains classification
 * 1st Jersey red.svg Sprints classification
 * 2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
 * 3rd Overall Tour Méditerranéen
 * 4th Druivenkoers Overijse
 * 5th Overall Tour of Britain
 * 1st Jersey red.svg Mountains classification
 * 6th Halle–Ingooigem


 * 2011
 * 3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
 * 4th Brabantse Pijl
 * Tour de France
 * Held Jersey polkadot.svg after Stages 6–7 and 9–11
 * Jersey red number.svg 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 MaillotHolanda.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
 * 1st Amstel Curaçao Race


 * 2014
 * 8th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia