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Full name | Adri van der Poel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands | 17 June 1959||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road Cyclo-cross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1981–1983 | DAF Trucks–Côte d'Or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1984–1986 | Kwantum–Decosol–Yoko | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1987–1988 | PDM–Ultima–Concorde | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1989–1990 | Domex–Weinmann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1991–1992 | Tulip Computers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1993 | Mercatone Uno–Zucchini–Medeghini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1994–1995 | Collstrop–Willy Naessens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1996–2000 | Rabobank | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adri van der Poel [1] [2] (born 17 June 1959) is a retired Dutch cyclist. Van der Poel was a professional from 1981 to 2000. His biggest wins included six classics, two stages of the Tour de France and the World Cyclo-Cross Championships in 1996. He also obtained the second place and silver medal in the World Road Championships in 1983 behind Greg LeMond and five second places in the World Cyclo-Cross championships. [3] The Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel is named after him.
Van der Poel began his career on the road and during his first season as a professional he obtained second place in Paris–Nice behind Stephen Roche and second place in the La Flèche Wallonne. In the Tour de France, he won two stages; his stage win in 1988 set the record for fastest stage (since then only surpassed by three cyclists). [4] Van der Poel also competed in cyclo-cross during the winter and obtained great results – that he turned full-time to cyclo-cross in the latter part of his career where he won the World Championships in 1996 and the World Cup and Superprestige classifications in 1997. Van der Poel retired after the 2000 Cyclo-Cross World Championships where he finished fourth and which was won by his teammate Richard Groenendaal.
In 1983 he tested positive for strychnine. He said that his father-in-law had served a pigeon pie for Sunday lunch, and only when he tested positive did he realise that the pigeons had been doped with strychnine. [5] [6] [7]
Van der Poel is the son-in-law of the famous French cyclist Raymond Poulidor. His sons David and Mathieu are also cyclists. Mathieu van der Poel became cyclo-cross world champion himself in the junior race in 2012 (Koksijde) and 2013 (Louisville, Kentucky) and then matching his father's title in 2015 (Tábor, Czech Republic), and exceeding his father, winning titles in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024. Mathieu is less prolific in professional road cycling, having won the UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race only once in 2024, along with the wins at Tour of Flanders in 2020, 2022, and 2024, Strade Bianche in 2021, Milan-Sanremo in 2023, and Paris-Roubaix in 2023 and 2024.
Van der Poel's brother Jacques was also a professional cyclist from 1986 to 1992.
Grand Tour | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
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/ Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 71 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 100 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Tour de France | — | 102 | 37 | DNF | 51 | 110 | 105 | 84 | DNF | 111 | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Monuments results timeline | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Monument | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 |
Milan–San Remo | — | 61 | 31 | 50 | 18 | 7 | 46 | 7 | 31 | — | 74 | 42 | 91 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Tour of Flanders | 14 | 33 | 34 | — | 15 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 35 | 64 | 68 | 26 | 46 | 26 | 58 | 60 | — | — | — | — |
Paris–Roubaix | — | 32 | 6 | — | 9 | 3 | 37 | 18 | 18 | 8 | 25 | 14 | 5 | 16 | 48 | — | — | — | — | — |
Liège–Bastogne–Liège | 24 | 25 | 7 | — | 40 | 2 | 46 | 1 | — | 53 | 48 | — | 80 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Giro di Lombardia | — | 44 | 3 | 6 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 32 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | |
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World Championships | DNF | — | 2 | DNF | 59 | 67 | 18 | 49 | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | 14 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — |
National Championships | 3 | 18 | 3 | 11 | — | 10 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 5 | — | 8 | 11 | — | — | — | 20 | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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Adrie van der Poel at ProCyclingStats