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Jan Krekels
Jan Krekels (Jan Jozef Alfons Franciscus Krekels), Dutch road cyclist born 1947 in Sittard; 1968 Olympic team time trial gold medalist, later professional 1969-1978 with a 1971 Tour de France stage win. Not the Belgian Jan Kriekels who died in 2020.
Jan Pieterse
Jan Pieterse (Johannes Aloysius Maria Pieterse), Dutch road cyclist (1942-2026); won Olympic gold in the 100 km team time trial at Tokyo 1964 with Dolman, Karstens, and Zoet; 1963 Tour of Austria winner.
Jan Schur
Jan Schur (born 1962, Leipzig), son of Täve Schur, East German road cyclist; Olympic gold 1988 and world title 1989 in the 100 km team time trial, professional 1990–1994, later admitted Stasi informer "IM Reinhold".
Jan Ullrich
Jan Ullrich, German road cyclist born 1973 in Rostock; 1997 Tour de France winner (first German), 1999 Vuelta champion, 2000 Olympic road race gold, world time trial champion 1999 and 2001; five-time Tour runner-up to Armstrong; career ended by Operación Puerto and a 2012 CAS ruling.
Jann Mardenborough
Jann Mardenborough (born 1991, Darlington, England) is a British racing driver who turned winning the 2011 GT Academy into a professional career, with a Le Mans podium and the 2023 film Gran Turismo.
Japan at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships
Japan competes at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, ranking 16th all-time with 54 medals, from Noboru Fujimaki's 1979 sprint silver to Kento Yamasaki's 2024 keirin world title.
Japanese Grand Prix (日本グランプリ)
Japanese Grand Prix (日本グランプリ), F1 race first held 1976 at Fuji, at Suzuka Circuit since 1987 except 2007-08; 5.807 km figure-eight, 53 laps, 13 title deciders, 2026 winner Kimi Antonelli.
Jarno Trulli
Jarno Trulli (born 1974, Pescara) is a retired Italian F1 driver, 1997-2011, for Minardi, Prost, Jordan, Renault, Toyota, and Lotus; won Monaco 2004 from pole, 11 podiums, 4 poles, famed one-lap qualifier.
Jaroslav Kulhavy
Jaroslav Kulhavý (Jaroslav Kulhavy), Czech cross-country mountain biker born 1985 in Ústí nad Orlicí; 2012 Olympic gold and 2016 silver, 2011 world champion and World Cup winner, three Cape Epic wins; retired 2022, then Xterra triathlon.
Jason Crump
Jason Crump (born 1975, Bristol) is an Australian former speedway rider, three-time Speedway World Champion (2004, 2006, 2009) with seven world titles, 23 GP wins, and a 2020 Ipswich comeback.
Jason Kenny
Jason Kenny (born 1988, Bolton) is a retired British track sprint cyclist, nicknamed The Farnworth Flame, with 7 Olympic golds and 2 silvers, making him Britain's most successful Olympian; now Team GB men's sprint head coach.
Jason Queally
Jason Queally (Jason Paul Queally), British track cyclist born 1970 in Great Haywood, England; Olympic 1,000 m time trial gold (1:01.609) and team sprint silver at Sydney 2000, world team sprint champion 2005, European team pursuit champion 2010.
Jean Alesi
Jean Alesi (Giovanni Roberto Alesi, born 1964, Avignon) is a French-Sicilian ex-Formula 1 driver; 1989 F3000 champion, Ferrari 1991-95, sole win at the 1995 Canadian GP on his 31st birthday, 201 starts.
Jean Cugnot
Jean Cugnot (Jean Pierre Gaston Cugnot) was a French track cyclist who won gold in the Tandem Sprint and bronze in the individual Sprint at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
Jean Goujon
Jean Goujon (Jean Georges Goujon, 1914-1991), French track and road cyclist; double gold medalist at Berlin 1936 in team pursuit and team road race, later professional 1937-1949 with 35th place, 1937 Tour de France.
Jean Michel Monin
Jean Michel Monin, French track cyclist born 1967 in Argenteuil; won Olympic gold in the 1996 Atlanta team pursuit with Capelle, Ermenault, and Moreau, and world silver at Manchester 1996.
Jean Todt
Jean Todt (born 1946) is a French former rally co-driver, Peugeot and Ferrari motorsport manager, and FIA President 2009-2021, later UN Special Envoy for Road Safety and husband of Michelle Yeoh.
Jeddah Corniche Circuit
Jeddah Corniche Circuit: 6.174 km Red Sea waterfront street circuit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, hosting the Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix since 2021; fastest street circuit in F1, ~250 km/h average, 27 corners, night race, also a Formula E venue.
Jeddah Corniche Fe
Jeddah Corniche Fe is the shortened Formula E configuration of the Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, cut to 3.001 km with 19 turns for electric racing.
Jeff Burton
Jeff Burton, born 1967 in South Boston, Virginia, is a retired NASCAR Cup driver nicknamed "The Mayor," with 21 Cup wins, 27 Xfinity wins, NASCAR's 75 Greatest Drivers honor, and Hall of Fame Class of 2027 election; now an NBC Sports analyst.
Jeff Gordon
Jeff Gordon (born 1971, Vallejo, California) is a retired NASCAR Cup driver and Hendrick Motorsports vice chairman; four-time champion (1995, 1997, 1998, 2001) with 93 wins, third all-time, and 2019 Hall of Fame inductee.
Jeffrey Earnhardt
Jeffrey Earnhardt, fourth-generation NASCAR driver, son of Kerry, grandson of Dale Earnhardt; Xfinity and Cup racer, 2022 Talladega No. 3 pole winner, returning part-time in 2027.
Jehan Daruvala
Jehan Daruvala (born 1998) is an Indian racing driver, the first and only Indian to win a Formula 2 race, with four F2 wins and 18 podiums; he races in Formula E for Maserati MSG Racing.
Jennifer Valente
Jennifer Valente, American track cyclist born 1994 in San Diego; first U.S. woman to win Olympic track cycling gold (omnium, Tokyo 2020), defended it at Paris 2024 plus team pursuit gold; five Olympic medals, 19 world championship medals.
Jenny Rissveds
Jenny Rissveds, Swedish cross-country mountain bike racer (XCO) from Falun; Olympic gold Rio 2016, bronze Paris 2024, elite world champion 2025, and first Swede to win the overall UCI XCO World Cup in 2026.
Jens Fiedler
Jens Fiedler (born 1970, Dohna, Saxony) is a German track cyclist, Olympic sprint champion 1992 and 1996 and team sprint champion 2004, with five world titles and two Sydney 2000 bronzes.
Jenson Button
Jenson Button, British 2009 Formula One World Champion with Brawn GP; raced 2000-2017 for Williams, Benetton, BAR, Honda, Brawn, and McLaren, taking 15 wins and 50 podiums in 305 Grands Prix.
Jeremy Mayfield
Jeremy Mayfield (born 1969, Owensboro, Kentucky), American NASCAR Cup Series driver, 433 starts and 5 wins, best points rank 7th in 1998; indefinitely suspended in May 2009 after testing positive for methamphetamine, litigation failed, later won the 2025 Grand National Super Series title.
Jeremy McGrath
Jeremy McGrath, "The King" of Supercross, American motocross racer with seven AMA 250 Supercross titles (1993-2000) and a record 72 premier-class wins, dethroned by Ricky Carmichael in 2001.
Jessi Combs
Jessi Combs (1980–2019), American fabricator, racer, and TV host of Xtreme 4x4, MythBusters, and All Girls Garage; set the women's land speed record of 522.783 mph in 2019 and died in the crash.