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Adri van der Poel[1][2] (born 17 June 1959) 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 Cyclo-Cross championships.[3] The Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel is named after him.
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| Full name | Adri van der Poel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 June 1959 (age 65) 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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| 1981–1983 | DAF Trucks–Côte d'Or | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984–1986 | Kwantum–Decosol–Yoko | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | PDM–Ultima–Concorde | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Domex–Weinmann | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Tulip Computers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993 | Mercatone Uno–Zucchini–Medeghini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Collstrop–Willy Naessens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–2000 | Rabobank | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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, 2020 and 2021, and added wins in the prestigious Tour of Flanders in 2020, Strade Bianche in 2021 and Milan-Sanremo in 2023.
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Van der Poel's brother Jacques was also a professional cyclist from 1986 to 1992.
Adrie van der Poel at ProCyclingStats
- ^ 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 | Dutch National Road Race Champion 1987 |
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