Simon Paul van Velthooven (born 8 December 1988)[1] is a New Zealand track racing cyclist and America's Cup sailor.

[2] Simon won New Zealand's first sprint cycling medal in the men's keirin at the 2012 Summer Olympics jointly with Teun Mulder after the race officials were unable to separate the two in a photo finish for third place.

He has also won multiple World Championship and Commonwealth Games medals and was the 2012 World Cup champion in the 1 km time trial and keirin events[3][4] In 2014, he won a silver in the 1000 m time trial at the Commonwealth Games.

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