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 36)
Venray, Limburg, the Netherlands
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb; 10 st 6 lb)
Team information
Current team Team Bahrain Victorious
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type Climber [1]
Super-domestique [1]
Professional teams
2006–2008 Fondas-P3Transfer Team
2009–2013 Vacansoleil
2014 Omega Pharma–Quick-Step
2015–2019 Team Sky [2]
2020– Bahrain–McLaren [3]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2023)
Vuelta a España
2 individual stages (2011, 2023)

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]

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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 (2020–present)

In September 2019, Poels announced that he was joining the Bahrain–Merida team, later renamed as Bahrain–McLaren, for the 2020 season. [3] In his first season with the team, Poels finished sixth overall at the Vuelta a España. [13] The following year, he held the polka-dot jersey for four days at the 2021 Tour de France, and recorded his best finish at the race to that point – sixteenth overall. In 2022, Poels won the penultimate stage and the general classification at the Vuelta a Andalucía, [14] [15] his first overall stage race win since 2016. [16] Poels then won his first Tour de France stage in 2023; having been part of a large breakaway on stage fifteen, Poels and three other riders went clear following the Col des Aravis, with Poels soloing away on the final climb towards Saint-Gervais-les-Bains and he ultimately won the stage by more than two minutes. [17] [18]

Major results

Poels at the 2023 Tour de France, where he won stage 15 of the race TDF 2023 Poels.jpg
Poels at the 2023 Tour de France, where he won stage 15 of the race

Source: [19]

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 (2 pro wins)
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 (1)
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 (1)
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 (1)
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 (1)
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
9th Strade Bianche
10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
1st Stage 4
2015 (2)
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 (6)
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 (1)
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 (3)
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 (1)
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 (2)
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Stage 4
2023 (2)
1st Stage 15 Tour de France
1st Stage 20 Vuelta a España
6th Overall UAE Tour
9th Overall Tour of Slovenia
2024 (1)
3rd Overall Tour de Hongrie
1st Stage 5
6th Overall Tour of the Alps

General classification results timeline

Poels leading a group of riders at the 2018 Giro d'Italia; he finished twelfth overall, his best finish at the race. GIR10013 poels froome (41560022085).jpg
Poels leading a group of riders at the 2018 Giro d'Italia; he finished twelfth overall, his best finish at the race.
Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour20112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia ——— 21 ——— 12 ——— 34 ——
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France DNF DNF 28 — 44 28 — 58 26 110 16 — 27 43
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 17 — DNF 38 —— 6 — 34 6 23 DNF 15
Major stage race general classification results
Stage races20112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Jersey yellow.svg Paris–Nice ——————— DNF ——— 15 27 —
MaillotAzul.PNG Tirreno–Adriatico 18 8 10 38 7 14 —— 7 ———— 11
MaillotVolta.png Volta a Catalunya ———— 24 34 ———NH 79 DNF 29 11
Jersey yellow.svg Tour of the Basque Country 39 17 9 10 —————————
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de Romandie —— DNF ——————————
Jersey yellow-bluebar.svg Critérium du Dauphiné —— 57 — 39 25 —— 4 —————
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de Suisse 25 15 ———————NH 31 —— 16
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
NHNot held
IPIn progress

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