Wout Poels

Wout Poels

Poels at the 2016 Tour of Britain
Personal information
Full name	Wouter Poels
Nickname	Wout
Born	(1987-10-01) 1 October 1987 Venray, Limburg, the Netherlands
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb; 10.4 st)
Team information
Current team	Team Sky
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber[1] Super-domestique[2]
Professional team(s)
2006–2008	Fondas-P3Transfer Team
2009–2013	Vacansoleil
2014	REDIRECT Template:Cycling data QST From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.
2015–	Team Sky
Major wins
Stage races Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (2016) One-day races and Classics Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2016)
Infobox last updated on 17 September 2016

Wouter Poels (born 1 October 1987 in Venray) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer for the UCI WorldTeam Team Sky.

Career

Poels at the 2015 Tour de France

After competing with the Vacansoleil–DCM^[3] squad since 2009, Poels moved to the

• From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name. squad for the 2014 season.^[4]

He almost lost a kidney after a massive crash on the sixth stage of the 2012 Tour de France.^[5]

In September 2014 Team Sky announced that Poels would join them from 1 January 2015.^[6] 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.^[7][8] 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 the 2016 Liège–Bastogne–Liège. It was the first monument for Team Sky and for Poels himself.^[9][10]

Career achievements

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	21	—	—
Tour de France	DNF	DNF	28	—	44	28
Vuelta a España	17	—	DNF	38	—	—

References

1. ↑ http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/tour-de-france/super-domestiques-the-unsung-heroes-of-the-tour-de-france-263143
2. ↑ http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/tour-de-france/super-domestiques-the-unsung-heroes-of-the-tour-de-france-263143
3. ↑ Atkins, Ben (3 January 2012). "Vacansoleil-DCM presented with twelve new riders for 2012". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 7 January 2012. 
4. ↑ "OPQS Signs Wout Poels and Janier Acevedo". #REDIRECT Template:Cycling data QST *From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed). This page was kept as a redirect to avoid breaking links, both internal and external, that may have been made to the old page name.. Decolef. 1 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.  line feed character in |work= at position 40 (help)
5. ↑ "Poels optimistic about return to racing in 2013". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 29 November 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2014. 
6. ↑ "Team Sky sign Leopold König, Nicolas Roche, Wout Poels, Andy Fenn, Lars Petter Nordhaug". skysports.com. 30 September 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2014. 
7. ↑ O'Shea, Sadhbh (15 March 2015). "Tirreno-Adriatico: Poels wins in Castelraimondo". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
8. ↑ "Tirreno-Adriatico: Quintana wins overall". Cyclingnews.com. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015. 
9. ↑ "Poels wins Liege-Bastogne-Liege". Cyclingnews.com. 24 April 2016. Retrieved 24 April 2016. 
10. ↑ "Wout Poels (Wins)". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 24 April 2016. 

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