Wout Poels
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Wouter Lambertus Martinus Henricus Poels (born 1 October 1987) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Rose Rockets.
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.
After competing with the Vacansoleil–DCM squad since 2009, Poels moved to the Omega Pharma–Quick-Step squad for the 2014 season.
Team Sky (2015–19)
In September 2014, Team Sky announced that Poels would join them from 1 January 2015. 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. 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.
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. In his first season with the team, Poels finished sixth overall at the Vuelta a España. 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, his first overall stage race win since 2016. 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.
Major results
Source:
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
3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
4th Overall Tour de Pologne
2012 (1)
2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 3
3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
8th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 1st Young rider classification
2013 (1)
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 Stage 5 Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 6 Tour of Britain
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
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
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
7th Overall Tour of Oman
General classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||||||||
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | 21 | — | — | — | 12 | — | — | — | 34 | — | — | 50 |
| Tour de France | DNF | DNF | 28 | — | 44 | 28 | — | 58 | 26 | 110 | 16 | — | 27 | 43 | |
| Vuelta a España | 17 | — | DNF | 38 | — | — | 6 | — | 34 | 6 | 23 | DNF | 15 | — | |
| Major stage race general classification results | |||||||||||||||
| Stage races | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Paris–Nice | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | 15 | 27 | — | — |
| Tirreno–Adriatico | 18 | 8 | 10 | 38 | 7 | 14 | — | — | 7 | — | — | — | — | 11 | DNF |
| Volta a Catalunya | — | — | — | — | 24 | 34 | — | — | — | NH | 79 | DNF | 29 | 11 | 18 |
| Tour of the Basque Country | 39 | 17 | 9 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Tour de Romandie | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Critérium du Dauphiné | — | — | 57 | — | 39 | 25 | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Tour de Suisse | 25 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | NH | 31 | — | — | 16 |
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
| IP | In progress |
External links
- at UCI
- at ProCyclingStats
- at Olympedia
- at Olympics.com
- at TeamNL (in Dutch)