Jussi Veikkanen (born 29 March 1981) is a Finnish former road racing cyclist, who rode as a professional between 2005 and 2015 for the Omega Pharma–Lotto and FDJ teams.

[2] He won the Finnish National Road Race Championships seven times between 2003 and 2014.

[3] Born in Riihimäki, Veikkanen started his career with team Mälarenergi and he became a professional cyclist in 2005 with Française des Jeux.

After a long breakaway on stage 2 of the 2009 Tour de France he donned the polka-dot jersey as the leader of the mountains classification.

[5] Veikkanen announced ahead of the 2015 edition of the Tour de Vendée that the race would be his last as a professional, and that he would remain with FDJ as a member of staff after retiring from the road.