Mathieu van der Poel
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Van der Poel at the 2015 Ronde van Limburg.
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| Full name | Mathieu van der Poel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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19 January 1995 Kapellen, Antwerp, Belgium |
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| Current team | Beobank–Corendon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Cyclo-cross and road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Cyclo-cross All-rounder (road) |
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| 2012–2013 | IKO Enertherm-BKCP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2014– | BKCP–Powerplus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mathieu van der Poel (born 19 January 1995) is a Dutch cyclist, who currently competes in the cyclo-cross and road bicycle racing disciplines of the sport for the Beobank–Corendon team. He is best known for winning the Cyclo-cross World Championships, in Tábor, Czech Republic in 2015, the Junior Road Race World Championships in Florence, Italy in 2013, and twice winning the Junior Cyclo-cross World Championships, in Koksijde, Belgium in 2012, and Louisville, USA in 2013; the first rider to win multiple titles at that level.
Born in Kapellen – located in the Antwerp province of Belgium – Van der Poel comes from a family of professional cyclists; his brother David is also prominent in cyclo-cross racing, winning the 2013 national under-23 championships in Hilvarenbeek. His father, Adri, was a six-time national champion and won the world title in 1996; he was also a two-time stage winner at the Tour de France and a winner of several Classics during his career. His maternal grandfather Raymond Poulidor, a French cyclist, was a Grand Tour winner at the 1964 Vuelta a España and finished the Tour de France in a runner-up position three times during his career.
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