Max Poole

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Max Poole
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Poole, Rund um Köln, 2022
Personal information
Born (2003-03-01) 1 March 2003 (age 22)
Scunthorpe, England
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Team information
Current team Team Picnic PostNL
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Professional teams
2022 Development Team DSM [1]
2023– Team dsm–firmenich
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
1 TTT stage (2023)

Stage races

Tour de Langkawi (2024)

Max David Poole (born 1 March 2003) is a British cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Picnic PostNL. [2]

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Career

As a junior rider, Poole won the British National Road Race Championships and the Tour of Yorkshire Juniors in 2021. In 2022, he joined the Development Team DSM, and competed up a level in several professional races with Team dsm–firmenich, before joining them full time the following season. In 2023, he competed in his first Grand Tour: the Vuelta a España, winning the stage one team time trial. [3] He saw success in other stage races as well, taking fourth in the Tour de Romandie and the Tour de Hongrie and winning the young rider classification in the Tour of the Alps.

Poole started the 2024 season at the UAE Tour, placing 7th overall. He fractured his elbow in March and did not return to competition until the Vuelta a Burgos in August, where he finished 2nd. [4] He again competed in the Vuelta a España, finishing second on one stage and third on three others. In October, he took his first professional win on stage three of the Tour de Langkawi. In the process, he also took the race lead, which he held until the end. [5]

Major results

2019
1st Coppa d'Oro
2020
4th Overall La Philippe Gilbert Juniors
5th Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
2021
1st Jersey of Great Britain.svg Road race, National Junior Road Championships
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Yorkshire Juniors
2nd Overall La Philippe Gilbert Juniors
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
1st Stage 2
7th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
9th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
10th Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stage 1
2022
5th Giro del Medio Brenta
6th Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
7th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
10th Overall Sazka Tour
2023
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification, Tour of the Alps
4th Overall Tour de Romandie
4th Overall Tour de Hongrie
2024 (2 pro wins)
1st Jersey teal Cape Epic.svg Overall Tour de Langkawi
1st Stage 3
2nd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
7th Overall UAE Tour

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 20232024
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia ——
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France ——
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 49 35
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ↑ "DEVELOPMENT TEAM DSM". UCI. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Max Poole Signs for Team DSM". velouk.net. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  3. ↑ Lamoureux, Lyne (26 August 2023). "Vuelta a España: Team dsm-firmenich win rain-soaked stage 1 team time trial". CyclingNews. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
  4. ↑ "Max Poole: I'm coming back with a point to prove". 2 August 2024. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  5. ↑ "Tour De Langkawi: Matteo Malucelli makes it three with final stage win as Max Poole claims overall race win". CyclingNews. 6 October 2024. Retrieved 6 October 2024.


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