Wout Poels

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Wout Poels
2018 Tour of Britain stage 8 - race second place Wout Poels (cropped).JPG
Poels at the 2018 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full nameWouter Lambertus Martinus Henricus Poels
NicknameWout, DJ Breadsticks
Born (1987-10-01) 1 October 1987 (age 34)
Venray, Limburg, the Netherlands
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb)
Team information
Current teamTeam Bahrain Victorious
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber[1]
Super-domestique[1]
Professional teams
2006–2008Fondas-P3Transfer Team
2009–2013Vacansoleil
2014Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2015–2019Team Sky[2]
2020–Bahrain–McLaren[3]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2011)

Stage races

Vuelta a Andalucía (2022)

One-day races and Classics

Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2016)

Wouter Lambertus Martinus Henricus Poels (born 1 October 1987) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Bahrain Victorious.[4]

Career[]

Poels was born in Venray. He almost lost a kidney after a massive crash on the sixth stage of the 2012 Tour de France.[5]

After competing with the Vacansoleil–DCM[6] squad since 2009, Poels moved to the Omega Pharma–Quick-Step squad for the 2014 season.[7]

Team Sky (2015–19)[]

In September 2014, Team Sky announced that Poels would join them from 1 January 2015.[8] His first win for the team came in the 2015 Tirreno–Adriatico, where he led the team following the withdrawal of Chris Froome. Poels won stage 4 into Castelraimondo with an attack on the final climb and a solo descent to the finish line. He moved into the lead of the race and went on to finish seventh in the overall standings.[9][10] He later finished second overall at the Tour of Britain, winning the toughest mountain stage with an uphill finish on Hartside Fell.

In 2016, Poels won his first one-day race after sprinting to victory from a four-man group in Liège–Bastogne–Liège. It was the first monument for Team Sky and for Poels himself.[11][12]

Bahrain–McLaren[]

In September 2019, Poels announced that he was joining the Bahrain–Merida team, later renamed as Bahrain–McLaren, for the 2020 season.[3]

Major results[]

Poels at the 2015 Tour de France
2007
10th Overall Vuelta a Extremadura
1st Mountains classification
2008
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta Ciclista a León
3rd Overall Volta a Lleida
3rd Rund um Düren
9th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
2010
1st Stage 4 Tour of Britain
2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain
1st Stage 4
8th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
9th Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop
2011
1st Stage 15 Vuelta a España
2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain
1st Stage 3
3rd Overall Tour Méditerranéen
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
4th Overall Tour de Pologne
2012
2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 3
3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
8th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
2013
7th Amstel Curaçao Race
8th Overall Tour de l'Ain
1st Stage 4
9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
2014
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
9th Strade Bianche
10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
1st Stage 4
2015
2nd Overall Tour of Britain
1st Stage 5
3rd Overall Abu Dhabi Tour
5th Milano–Torino
7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Stage 4
8th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
8th GP Ouest–France
2016
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Jersey white dots on red.svg Mountains classification
1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 4
1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
1st Stage 5 Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 6 Tour of Britain
4th La Flèche Wallonne
7th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
2017
3rd Overall Tour de Pologne
1st Stage 7
4th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
6th Overall Vuelta a España
6th Milano–Torino
7th Overall Tour of Guangxi
2018
1st Stage 4 (ITT) Paris–Nice
2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Jersey yellow.svg Points classification
1st Stage 2
2nd Overall Tour of Britain
1st Stage 6
2019
3rd Overall Tour Down Under
3rd Overall Volta ao Algarve
4th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
1st Stage 7
7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
2020
6th Overall Vuelta a España
6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 5 Tour de France
2021
4th Overall Tour de la Provence
Tour de France
Held Jersey polkadot.svg after Stages 8 & 15–17
Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 8
2022
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Stage 4

General classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia — — — 21 — — — 12 — — —
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France DNF DNF 28 — 44 28 — 58 26 110 16
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 17 — DNF 38 — — 6 — 34 6 23
Major stage race general classification results
Stage races 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Yellow jersey Paris–Nice — — — — — — — DNF — — —
blue jersey Tirreno–Adriatico 18 8 10 38 7 14 — — 7 — —
MaillotVolta.png Volta a Catalunya — — — — 24 34 — — — NH 79
Yellow jersey Tour of the Basque Country 39 17 9 10 — — — — — —
Yellow jersey Tour de Romandie — — DNF — — — — — — —
Yellow jersey Critérium du Dauphiné — — 57 — 39 25 — — 4 — —
Yellow jersey Tour de Suisse 25 15 — — — — — — — NH 31
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
NH Not held

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Super-domestiques: Five unsung heroes of the Tour de France". 21 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Team Sky". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b Farrand, Stephen (18 September 2019). "Wout Poels leaves Team Ineos for leadership role at Bahrain-Merida". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc.
  4. ^ "Bahrain Victorious". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Poels optimistic about return to racing in 2013". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  6. ^ Atkins, Ben (3 January 2012). "Vacansoleil-DCM presented with twelve new riders for 2012". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC.
  7. ^ "OPQS Signs Wout Poels and Janier Acevedo". Omega Pharma–Quick-Step. Decolef. 1 September 2013.
  8. ^ "Team Sky sign Leopold König, Nicolas Roche, Wout Poels, Andy Fenn, Lars Petter Nordhaug". skysports.com. 30 September 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
  9. ^ O'Shea, Sadhbh (15 March 2015). "Tirreno-Adriatico: Poels wins in Castelraimondo". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  10. ^ "Tirreno-Adriatico: Quintana wins overall". Cyclingnews.com. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  11. ^ "Poels wins Liege-Bastogne-Liege". Cyclingnews.com. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  12. ^ "Wout Poels (Wins)". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 24 April 2016.

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