Mathieu van der Poel

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Mathieu van der Poel Road cycling
Mathieu van der Poel (2015)
Mathieu van der Poel (2015)
To person
Date of birth January 19, 1995
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Road / cyclocross / MTB
To the team
Current team Alpecin-Fenix
function driver
Most important successes
World Champion UCI World Championships
Cyclocross world champion 2015, 2019, 2020
Union-Cycliste-Internationale-Logo.svg UCI WorldTour
Dwars door Vlaanderen 2019
Amstel Gold Race 2019
Last updated: April 21, 2019

Mathieu van der Poel (born January 19, 1995 in Kapellen , Belgium ) is a Dutch cyclist who is equally successful on the road , in cyclocross and in mountain bike cross country .

Athletic career

As a junior rider , van der Poel was world champion three times: he won the cyclocross world championships in 2012 Koksijde and 2013 Louisville as well as in the road race of the world championships in Florence in 2013 .

Among the adults, van der Poel was initially particularly successful in cyclocross. In his first U23 season in 2013/14, he won three rounds of the U23 World Cup , was Vice European Champion and third in the U23 World Championship in 2014 . In the following season he successfully participated increasingly in elite races and in the Czech Tábor world champion in cyclocross . In addition to numerous other victories, he became European champion in the 2017/18 season and won the overall ranking of the World Cup. He celebrated his second title win at the 2019 Cyclocross World Championships .

Parallel to his success in cyclocross, van der Poel drove on the road for the UCI Continental Team BKCP-Powerplus and achieved his first international elite victory on the road in the one-day race Ronde van Limburg in 2014. After several victories in other races of the UCI Europe Tour , he was the Dutch road champion and vice European champion in each sprint of a smaller front field in 2018.

After his team received a license as a Professional Continental Team under the name Corendon-Circus in 2019 , van der Poel was invited to take part in races of the UCI WorldTour . In March 2019 he won his first competition of this series with Dwars door Vlaanderen in a sprint of a group of five. In the same month he won the De Brabantse Pijl race , 34 years after his father Adrie van der Poel . On April 21, at the Amstel Gold Race, he played a key role in bringing a chasing group closer to the leading Julian Alaphilippe and Jakob Fuglsang , and then won his second WorldTour race in the sprint. In the same year he won the title at the European Mountain Bike Championships in Cross Country despite a fall. Thanks to these successes, Mathieu van der Poel was able to advance to the top 20 of the UCI world rankings in 2019, both on the road and in mountain biking in cross country and cyclocross.

Personal

Van der Poel is a son of the former racing cyclist Adrie van der Poel and a grandson of Raymond Poulidor . His brother David is also a cyclist.

successes

Cyclocross

2011/12
  • European champion European Champion (Juniors)
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch Champion (Juniors)
  • World Champion World Champion (Juniors)
2012/13
  • European champion European Champion (Juniors)
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch Champion (Juniors)
  • World Champion World Champion (Juniors)
2013/14
2014/15
2015/16
2016/2017
2017/2018
2018/2019
2019/20

Street

2011
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch Champion - Individual Time Trial (Youth)
2013
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch Champion - Road Race (Juniors)
  • World Champion World Champion - Road Race (Juniors)
2014
2017
2018
2019
2020
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch champion - road race

Mountain bike

2018
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch champion - cross country
2019
  • European champion European Champion - Cross Country

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pöstlberger wins in Austria, van der Poel in the Netherlands. In: radsport-news.com. July 1, 2018, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Trentin defeats van der Poel and Van Aert in a tight sprint. In: radsport-news.com. August 12, 2018, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Van der Poel makes himself a Ronde favorite in Waregem. In: radsport-news.com. March 4, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Van der Poel wins the race that suits him best. In: radsport-news.com. April 18, 2019, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Van der Poel wins the Amstel Gold Race after an unbelievable finale. In: radsport-news.com. April 21, 2019, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Favorite Van der Poel wins EM gold despite crash - Egger ninth. In: rad-net.de. July 28, 2019, accessed July 28, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Poel, Mathieu van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Chapels