Justin Jules

Justin Jules (born 20 September 1986) is a French professional road bicycle racer, who most recently rode for UCI ProTeam Delko.^[4]

Justin Jules

Jules at the 2014 Paris–Arras Tour
Personal information
Full name	Justin Jules
Born	(1986-09-20) 20 September 1986 (age 38) Sartrouville, France
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Amateur teams
2006	VC Les Mureaux
2007	CA Mantes
2008–2009	OC Val d'Oise
2010	Vendée U–Pays de la Loire
Professional teams
2011	La Pomme Marseille
2012	Véranda Rideau–Super U
2013–2014	La Pomme Marseille[1]
2015–2016	Veranclassic–Ekoi
2017–2019	WB Veranclassic Aqua Protect[2]
2020–2021	Nippo–Delko–One Provence[3]

Personal life

Born in Sartrouville, he is the son of Pascal Jules,^[5] a professional cyclist who was active during the 1980s – achieving one Tour de France stage victory in 1984^[6] – who died in a road traffic accident when Justin was just over a year old.

In 2008, Jules was sentenced to three years in prison for the manslaughter of his step-father in 2004.^[7] The sentence had been reduced due to a complicated upbringing and his step-father's troubles with alcoholism.^[8][9]

Career

Jules has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, as the La Pomme Marseille team he had joined from the Vendée U-Pays de la Loire team, successfully became a Continental team. Jules achieved his first professional victory at the 2011 Tour of Hainan, when he won the first stage of the race,^[10] and held the overall race lead for a week. After a spell with the Véranda Rideau-Super U squad in 2012, Jules rejoined La Pomme Marseille for the 2013 season.^[11] In his first race since rejoining, Jules won a bunch sprint for the honours in the season-opening race of the 2013 UCI Europe Tour, the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise; he managed to hold off the advances of Ag2r–La Mondiale's Samuel Dumoulin and Argos–Shimano rider Thomas Damuseau, for victory.^[8][12]

Major results

2009

5th Tour du Gâtinais

2010

3rd Overall Circuit des Plages Vendéennes

1st Stage 7

3rd GP Christian Fenioux

4th Overall Saint Brieuc Agglo-Tour

2011

1st Stage 1 Tour of Hainan

5th Tour du Finistère

8th Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise

2012

5th Overall Circuit des Plages Vendéennes

8th Tour du Finistère

2013

1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

3rd Route Adélie

5th Classic Loire Atlantique

6th Val d'Ille Classic

8th Overall Tour du Haut Var

10th Tour of Nanjing

2014

1st Stage 5 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan

5th Overall Ronde de l'Oise

10th Châteauroux Classic

2015

1st Stage 1 Tour de Tunisie

2nd Nokere Koerse

4th Overall Tour de Gironde

5th Overall Tour du Maroc

1st Points classification

1st Stage 5

6th Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise

6th Halle–Ingooigem

7th Omloop van het Waasland

10th Cholet-Pays de Loire

10th Grand Prix Criquielion

2016

1st Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas

1st Stage 8 Tour du Maroc

1st Stage 2 Tour de Tunisie

5th Antwerpse Havenpijl

5th UAE Cup

7th Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde

8th Memorial Van Coningsloo

9th Gooikse Pijl

2017

1st Stage 1 Circuit de la Sarthe

2nd Tour de Vendée

3rd Overall Tour de Normandie

1st Points classification

1st Stage 4

3rd Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers

3rd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

4th Druivenkoers Overijse

4th Paris–Bourges

6th Paris–Troyes

6th Grand Prix de Fourmies

7th Overall Tour La Provence

1st Stage 1

2018

3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe

1st Stage 1

3rd Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde

4th Grand Prix Criquielion

5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

6th Druivenkoers Overijse

7th Overall Tour of Norway

8th Overall Volta ao Alentejo

2019

2nd Volta Limburg Classic

5th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne

6th Grand Prix de Denain

7th Nokere Koerse

9th Overall Vuelta a Aragón

1st Points classification

1st Stage 1