- Jo de Roo was born on July 5, 1937 in Schore, province of Zeeland, Netherlands.
- He was the most successful rider from Zeeland until the emergence of Jan Raas.
- Jo de Roo won the Gerrit Schulte Trophy as Dutch cyclist of the year in 1962 after winning Paris-Tours, the Giro di Lombardia and Bordeaux-Paris. De Roo's Autumn Double of Paris-Tours and the Giro di Lombardia in the same year is a rare achievement as the races are different in style and topography.
- During 11 seasons as a professional he had six victories in single-day classics, three stages of the Tour de France and one stage of the Vuelta a España. He had 46 wins as a professional.
- Jo de Roo is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist between 1958 and 1968.
- He did not go to the 1962 world championship after a disagreement over expenses with the Dutch cycling federation.
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