Adri van der Poel
Adrie van der Poel[1][2] (born 17 June 1959 in Bergen op Zoom) is a retired Dutch cyclist. Van der Poel was a professional from 1981 to 2000. His biggest wins included six classics, two stages of the Tour de France and the World Cyclo-Cross Championships in 1996. He also obtained the second place and silver medal in the World Road Championships in 1983 behind Greg LeMond and five second places in the World Cylo-Cross championships.[3] The Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel is named after him.
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| Full name | Adrie van der Poel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 June 1959 Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road Cyclo-cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1981–1982 | DAF Trucks–Côte d'Or | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1983 | Aernoudt-Rossin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984–1986 | Kwantum Hallen-Yoko | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | PDM–Concorde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Domex–Weinmann | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Tulip Computers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Mercatone Uno–Zucchini–Medeghini | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Collstrop–Willy Naessens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2000 | Rabobank | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Major wins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cyclo-cross World Championships (1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Van der Poel began his career on the road and during his first season as a professional he obtained second place in Paris–Nice behind Stephen Roche and second place in the La Flèche Wallonne. In the Tour de France, he won two stages; his stage win in 1988 set the record for fastest stage (since then only surpassed by three cyclists).[4] Van der Poel also competed in cyclo-cross during the winter and obtained great results – that he turned full-time to cyclo-cross in the latter part of his career where he won the World Championships in 1996 and the World Cup and Superprestige classifications in 1997. Van der Poel retired after the 2000 Cyclo-Cross World Championships where he finished fourth and which was won by his teammate Richard Groenendaal.
In 1983 he tested positive for strychnine. He said that his father-in-law had served a pigeon pie for Sunday lunch, and only when he tested positive did he realise that the pigeons had been doped with strychnine.[5][6][7]
Family
Van der Poel is the son-in-law of the famous French cyclist Raymond Poulidor. His sons David and Mathieu are also cyclists. Mathieu van der Poel became cyclo-cross world champion himself in the junior race in 2012 (Koksijde) and 2013 (Louisville, Kentucky) and then matching his father's title in 2015 (Tábor, Czech Republic), 2019 and 2020.
Van der Poel's brother Jacques was also a professional cyclist from 1986 to 1992.
Major results
- 1980
- 7th Road race, Olympic Games
- 1981
- 1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 2nd Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd La Flèche Wallonne
- 1982
- 1st Züri-Metzgete
- 1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice
- 1983
- 1st Prologue Tour de Luxembourg
- 2nd
Road race, UCI Road World Championships - 3rd Giro di Lombardia
- 1984
- 4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st Stage 4
- 1985
- 1st Brabantse Pijl
- 1st Clásica de San Sebastián
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- 1st Scheldeprijs
- Tour de Luxembourg
- 1st Stages 1 & 4
- 2nd Overall Nissan Classic
- 1st Stage 5
- 2nd Giro di Lombardia
- 2nd UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships
- 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1986
- 1st Tour of Flanders
- 1st Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix
- 3rd Züri–Metzgete
- 6th Overall Nissan Classic
- 1987
- 1st
National Cyclo-cross Championships - 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Paris–Tours
- 1st Grand Prix des Fourmies
- 1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 1st Stage 9 Tour de France
- Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 1 & 2
- 1988
- 1st
Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Stage 16 Tour de France
- 2nd UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships
- 3rd Tour of Flanders
- 3rd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 1989
- 1st National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st Stage 6 Paris–Nice
- 1st Stage 5 Tour Méditerranéen
- 2nd UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships
- 2nd Brabantse Pijl
- 2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 1990
- 1st National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 2nd UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships
- 2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 1991
- 1st National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st Circuito de Getxo
- 1st Stage 4 Ronde van Nederland
- 2nd UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1992
- 1st National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 2nd Overall Tour of Britain
- 3rd
UCI World Cyclo-cross Championships - 1994–95
- 1st National Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st Profronde van Heerlen
- 1995–96
- World Cyclo-cross Championships
- 1st, Surhuisterveen, Sint Michielsgestel, Pontchateau & Vossem.
- 1996–97
- 1st World Cup
- 1st Superprestige
- 1st Prague, Woerden, Kalmthout, Gieten, Nommay, Milan, Essen, Koksijde, Loenhout, Sint Michielsgestel, Harnes & Haegendorf
- 1997–98
- 1st Harderwijk, Niel, Rijkevorsel, Diegem, Zeddam, Loenhout, Wetzikon, Chateau La Croix Laroque & Surhuisterveen
- 1998–99
National Cyclo-cross Championships- 1st Veldrit Pijnacker, Grand Prix Nommay, Montevrain & Harnes
- 1999–2000
- 1st Lutterbach & Harderwijk
See also
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Adrie van der Poel. |
- Wired 15.01: The Doping Excuses Hall of Fame. Wired.com (2009-01-04). Retrieved on 2011-07-02.
- Nieuwsselectie: Sport. Retro.nrc.nl. Retrieved on 2011-07-02.
- Adrie van der Poel Archived 15 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- "Le Tour en chiffres Les autres records" (PDF) (in French). LeTour.fr. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 March 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2009.
- "Wired article 'The Doping Excuses Hall of Fame'". Wired. 4 January 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- "The Sunday Herald, 12 December 1999 "A drugs cheat? not me!" by Richard Bath". Archived from the original on 19 September 2008. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- Cadence Nutrition, Pdf Archived 5 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
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| Preceded by Jos Lammertink |
Dutch National Road Race Champion 1987 |
Succeeded by Peter Pieters |