Addy Engels

Addy Engels

Addy Engels at the Tour de Romandie 2011
To person
Date of birth	June 16, 1977
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Street
height	1.81 meters
Racing weight	63 kilograms
Team (s)
2000–2003 2004 2005–2011	Rabobank Bankgiroloterij Quick Step
Most important successes
Dutch champion U23 1998
Team (s) as sporting director
2012–2015 2016	Giant Shimano Jumbo Visma
Last updated: November 24, 2014

Addy Engels (born June 16, 1977 in Zwartemeer ) is a former Dutch cyclist and today's sports director .

Career

Early years

Before Addy Engels became a professional with the Dutch cycling team Rabobank in 2000 , he won the national Dutch championship title in the U23 class in road racing in 1998 and attracted attention with top placements in various international junior races, for example as the prologue winner at the Triptyque Ardennaise in 1999 or overall -13. the Tour de l'Avenir 1999. In the same year he achieved the silver medal at the national U23 championship as defending champion.

2000-2004

In his first year as a professional, Engels started and finished at the Giro d'Italia alongside some other important races such as Paris – Nice . At the end of the year he was nominated for the road race of the World Championship in Plouay , which he could not finish. In the following season, Engels took part in the Vuelta a España for the first time, and he also finished this Grand Tour . In 2002 he proved his tour skills and arrived in Milan on the 24th of the Giro d'Italia - the best overall result in a major tour in his entire career. In the same year he was allowed to start in the Tour de France and finished it in 94th place overall. Engels also achieved his first top ten placement as a professional cyclist in 2002, namely tenth on the first stage of the Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme . Engels completed his most successful year as a professional to date in 2003, when he took his first and only podium by finishing third on a stage of the Tour of Murcia . In addition, he was in the top ten in daily sections of the Regio Tour , the Valencia Tour and the Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme and competed in the Vuelta a España , which he finished again.

In 2004 he switched to the BankGiroLoterij team . But here, too, Engels could not celebrate any notable successes, an eighth place in the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour remained his best result. When the team disbanded at the end of the season, Engels was about to end his career.

2005-2011

But then Quick Step-Innergetic became interested in Engels, and in 2005 he signed a contract with the Belgian ProTeam . There the Dutchman continued to play the role of a helper, but he stayed with the team until the end of his career in 2011 and was used in numerous important competitions. In his first Quick-Step year he was at the start of the Giro d'Italia , where he finished sixth out of a breakaway group on the 16th stage - his first ever top ten position in a Grand Tour . The following year he narrowly missed his first professional win in the same race when he only had to admit defeat to the Spaniard Joan Horrach by five seconds on the twelfth day segment after Sestri Levante .

The racing program with Giro and Vuelta participation in one season, which Engels had already completed in 2006, he also contested in 2007, where he was also twice in the stage top ten at the local Ster Elektrotoer . Over the next few years - in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 - he always drove the Giro d'Italia after the Ardennes classics, and he always held out to the end. In addition, he reached fifth place in the road race of the Dutch championships in 2009 and tenth place on a stage of the California Tour . At the end of his active career, he took part in the Tour de France again in 2011 , before finally getting off his bike at the end of the year.

In total, Engels has contested fifteen major country tours in his career as a professional cyclist (two times the Tour de France, four times the Vuelta and nine times the Giro), all of which he was able to finish. The Dutchman was never able to celebrate a victory in twelve years as a professional.

Sports director

Shortly after the end of his career as a driver, Addy Engels switched to management in early 2012 and became the sporting director of the then Dutch team Project 1t4i, which now operates under the name Giant-Shimano .

Trivia

In addition to cycling, Engels is a trained primary school teacher. His brother Allard was also a professional cyclist and even clinched some victories in the early 1990s.

successes

1998

• Dutch Champion - Road Race (U23)

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Giro d'Italia	80	-	24	-	-	69	84	81	105	112	126	110
Tour de France	-	-	94	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	146
Vuelta a España	-	84	-	114	-	-	124	83	-	-	-	-

Teams

• 2000-2003 Rabobank
• 2004 bank girolotry
• 2005 Quick Step
• 2006-2007 Quick Step-Innergetic
• 2008-2010 Quick Step
• 2011 Quickstep Cycling Team
• 2012 Team Argos-Shimano (Sports Director)
• 2013 Team Argos-Shimano (Sports Director)
• 2014 Team Giant-Shimano (Sports Director)

Web links

Commons : Addy Engels  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Addy Engels in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Addy Engels in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• Addy Engels at cqranking.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ radsport-news.com of October 8th, 2011: Engels and Reef become sporting directors at Skil-Shimano
2. ↑ Profile of Addy Engels on the website of the Giant-Shimano team (English) ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.