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Wout Poels
Dutch racing cyclist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wouter Lambertus Martinus Henricus Poels (born 1 October 1987) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam XDS Astana Team.[5]
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Poels was born in Venray. He almost lost a kidney after a massive crash on the sixth stage of the 2012 Tour de France.[6]
After competing with the Vacansoleil–DCM[7] squad since 2009, Poels moved to the Omega Pharma–Quick-Step squad for the 2014 season.[8]
Team Sky (2015–19)
In September 2014, Team Sky announced that Poels would join them from 1 January 2015.[9] 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.[10][11] 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.[12][13]
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.[14] 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,[15][16] his first overall stage race win since 2016.[17] 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.[18][19]
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- 2007
- 10th Overall Vuelta a Extremadura
- 1st Mountains classification
- 2008
- 1st
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
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 4th Overall Tour de Pologne
- 2012 (1)
- 2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 8th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 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 Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 1st
Points classification - 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 4
- 1st
- 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 Points classification
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 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
Combativity award Stage 5 Tour de France- 2021
- 4th Overall Tour de la Provence
- Tour de France
- Held
after Stages 8 & 15–17 - Combativity award Stage 8
- Held
- 2022 (2)
- 1st 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
- 2025 (2)
- 1st
Overall Tour of Turkey
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 7th Overall Tour of Oman
General classification results timeline
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