Adrie van der Poel

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Adrie van der Poel

Adrianus Aloysius Jacobus "Adrie" van der Poel (born June 17, 1959 in Hoogerheide ) is a former Dutch cyclist . He started his professional career in 1981 and resigned in 2000.

Career

At the beginning of his career, van der Poel was a road cyclist and won numerous important races. Among other things, he won the Tour of Flanders , Paris-Tours , the Clásica San Sebastián and the championship of Zurich . In 1983 he became vice world champion in road racing. He also won two Tour de France stages and wore the yellow jersey for one day .

He was not only successful in road races, but increasingly also in cyclocross races. He soon established himself at the top of the world and from the beginning of the 1990s only drove in this discipline. In 1996 he became world champion and in 1997 won the overall World Cup ranking; He also achieved second place at world championships five times (1985, 1988-91) and third place twice (1992, 1999).

In 1984 Adri van der Poel was banned from the Sicilian Week for three months for doping with ephedrine , and he also had to pay a fine. He later received another sentence for repetition, which was suspended on probation.

A cyclocross race has been held annually in Hoogerheide in the Netherlands since 1988, and since 2003 has been called " GP Adrie van der Poel ". Van der Poel won this race in 1999.

Personal

Van der Poel is the son-in-law of the French racing cyclist Raymond Poulidor and the father of the racing cyclists David and Mathieu van der Poel .

successes

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Meutgens : Doping im Radsport , Bielefeld 2007, p. 261. ISBN 978-3-7688-5245-6

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personal data
SURNAME Poel, Adrie van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poel, Adrianus Aloysius Jacobus van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoogerheide