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Born | Hoogerheide, Netherlands | 5 January 1963
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Jacques van der Poel (born 5 January 1963) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist. [1] He rode in the 1986 Giro d'Italia and the 1987 Tour de France.
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Mathieu van der Poel is a Dutch cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Alpecin–Fenix. He competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing and road bicycle racing disciplines of the sport and is best known for winning the Cyclo-cross World Championships in Tábor in 2015, Bogense in 2019, Dübendorf in 2020 and Ostend in 2021, the Junior Road Race World Championships in Florence in 2013, and twice winning the Junior Cyclo-cross World Championships, in Koksijde in 2012 and Louisville in 2013; the first rider to win multiple titles at that level. As well as this, Van der Poel was the winner of the 2018 Dutch National Road Race Championships in Hoogerheide, as well as the 2019 editions of Dwars door Vlaanderen, the Brabantse Pijl, and the Amstel Gold Race.
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The 2021 Tirreno–Adriatico was a road cycling stage race that took place between 10 and 16 March 2021 in Italy. It was the 56th edition of Tirreno–Adriatico and part of the 2021 UCI World Tour.
The 2021 Milan–San Remo was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 20 March 2021 in northwestern Italy. It was the 112th edition of the Milan–San Remo cycling classic. Originally the eighth event on the 2021 UCI World Tour calendar, it became the sixth event after the cancellation of the Tour Down Under and the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.
The 2021 Brabantse Pijl was the 61st edition of the Brabantse Pijl cycle race and was held on 14 April 2021. The race covered 201.7 km (125.3 mi), starting in Leuven and finishing in Overijse.
The 2019 Grand Prix de Denain – Porte du Hainaut was the 61st edition of the Grand Prix de Denain one-day road cycling race, held annually around the town of Denain in northern France. Since 2018, the race has traversed several sectors of cobbled roads, including one used in Paris-Roubaix. The Grand Prix de Denain was ranked 1.HC in the 2019 UCI Europe Tour, and it was the second race in the 2019 French Road Cycling Cup series.
The 2022 Giro d'Italia was the 105th edition of the Giro d'Italia, a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race. The race started on 6 May in Budapest, Hungary, and finished on 29 May in Verona, Italy.
The 2022 Dwars door Vlaanderen was a road cycling one-day race that took place on 30 March 2022 in Belgium. It was the 76th edition of Dwars door Vlaanderen and the 11th event of the 2022 UCI World Tour. It was won by Mathieu van der Poel.
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