Adri van der Poel

Adri van der Poel

Van der Poel in 2011
Personal information
Full name	Adri van der Poel
Born	(1959-06-17) 17 June 1959 (age 57) Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road Cyclo-cross
Role	Rider
Major wins
Road Grand Tours Tour de France 2 individual stages (1987, 1988) Stage races Étoile de Bessèges (1988) Herald Sun Tour (1988) One-Day Races and Classics National Road Race Championship (1987) Tour of Flanders (1986) Liège–Bastogne–Liège (1988) Amstel Gold Race (1990) Brabantse Pijl (1985) Clásica de San Sebastián (1985) Paris–Brussels (1985) Paris–Tours (1987) Scheldeprijs (1985) Züri-Metzgete (1982) Cyclo-cross UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup Overall 1996/1997 3 individual races Cyclo-cross Superprestige Overall 1996/1997 13 individual races GvA Trophy 6 individual races Cyclo-cross World Championships (1996) National Cyclo-cross Championships (1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1999)
Medal record Representing  Netherlands Road bicycle racing World Championships 1983 Altenrhein Elite Men's Road Race Cyclo-cross World Championships 1996 Montreuil Elite Men's Race 1985 Munich Elite Men's Race 1988 Hägendorf Elite Men's Race 1989 Pontchâteau Elite Men's Race 1990 Getxo Elite Men's Race 1991 Gieten Elite Men's Race 1992 Leeds Elite Men's Race 1999 Poprad Elite Men's Race

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-Day Races and Classics

UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup

Cyclo-cross Superprestige

GvA Trophy

Cyclo-cross World Championships (1996)

Adri van der Poel (born 17 June 1959 in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands) is a retired Dutch cyclist. Van der Poel was a professional from 1981 to 2000. His biggest wins included 6 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. The Grand Prix Adri van der Poel is named after him.

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). 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.