# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-velits
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:51:38.067Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-velits"
name: "Peter Velits"
slug: "peter-velits"
description: "Peter Velits is a Slovak former professional road racing cyclist. His career highlights included third place overall and a stage win at the 2010 Vuelta a España, the 2007 World Under-23 Road Race Championships gold and the 2012 Tour of Oman overall victory. Velits was also known as strong time-trialist, winning three consecutive team time trials as a part of Omega Pharma–Quick-Step in 2012 and 2013 and riding on the BMC Racing Team in 2014 UCI Road World Championships. His twin brother, Martin Velits also competed professionally, having raced on the same teams every year until the end of the 2013 season."
tagline: "Slovak road bicycle racer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saint-Ghislain_-_Grand_Prix_Pino_Cerami%2C_22_juillet_2015%2C_d%C3%A9part_(B146).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1985-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.69
  momentum:             2.631578947368421
  historical:           19.28394666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Peter Velits"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump