Jens Veggerby

Who is Jens Veggerby?

Jens Veggerby is a retired Danish cyclist. During his professional career that spanned 15 years from 1984 to 1999 he competed in 89 six-day races and won 13 of them: in Copenhagen, Antwerpen, Ghent, Stuttgart, Herning, Berlin and Bremen.

He was also a successful motor-paced cyclist – he won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1993 and finished in second place in 1992. He also won the European championships in 1990, 1996 and 1997.

Since the 2000s Veggerby runs an art gallery in Copenhagen. In April 2011 he was fined 500,000 DKK for smuggling 2 million DKK in November 2008 from Monaco to Denmark for his business partner Stein Bagger. Veggerby claims he was unaware that it is illegal to bring more than 10,000 euro in or out of Denmark without informing the authorities.