Mathieu van der Poel

In this Dutch name, the surname is Van der Poel, not Poel.

Mathieu van der Poel
Mathieu van der Poel at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships
Personal information
Full nameMathieu van der Poel
NicknameMVDP
The Flying Dutchman[1]
Born (1995-01-19) 19 January 1995 (age 29)
Kapellen, Belgium
Height1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb)
Team information
Current teamAlpecin–Deceuninck
Disciplines
RoleRider
Rider type
Amateur team
2012–2013IKO Enertherm–BKCP
Professional team
2014–BKCP–Powerplus[2][3]
Major wins
Cyclo-cross
World Championships (2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024)
European Championships (2017–2019)
National Championships (2015–2020)
World Cup (2017–18)
38 individual wins (2014–15—2020–21, 2022–23, 2023–24)
Superprestige (2014–15, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19)
Trophy (2017–18, 2018–19)
Gravel
World Championships (2024)
Mountain bike
European XC Championships (2019)
National XC Championships (2018)
XC World Cup
3 individual wins (2019)
Road

Grand Tours

Tour de France
1 individual stage (2021)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2022)
Combativity award (2022)

Stage races

BinckBank Tour (2020)
Tour of Belgium (2023)
Tour of Britain (2019)

One-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships (2023)
National Road Race Championships (2018, 2020)
Milan–San Remo (2023)
Tour of Flanders (2020, 2022, 2024)
Paris–Roubaix (2023, 2024)
Amstel Gold Race (2019)
Strade Bianche (2021)
E3 Saxo Classic (2024)
Dwars door Vlaanderen (2019, 2022)
Brabantse Pijl (2019)
GP de Denain (2019)
GP de Wallonie (2022)
Super 8 Classic (2023)
Medal record
Representing the  Netherlands
Men's cyclo-cross
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Koksijde Junior
Gold medal – first place 2013 Louisville Junior
Gold medal – first place 2015 Tábor Elite
Gold medal – first place 2019 Bogense Elite
Gold medal – first place 2020 Dübendorf Elite
Gold medal – first place 2021 Ostend Elite
Gold medal – first place 2023 Hoogerheide Elite
Gold medal – first place 2024 Tábor Elite
Silver medal – second place 2017 Bieles Elite
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Hoogerheide Under-23
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Valkenburg Elite
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2011 Lucca Junior
Gold medal – first place 2012 Ipswich Junior
Gold medal – first place 2017 Tábor Elite
Gold medal – first place 2018 Rosmalen Elite
Gold medal – first place 2019 Silvelle Elite
Silver medal – second place 2013 Mladá Boleslav Under-23
Silver medal – second place 2016 Pontchâteau Elite
Men's road cycling
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Florence Junior road race
Gold medal – first place 2023 Glasgow Elite road race
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Zurich Elite road race
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2018 Glasgow Elite road race
Men's mountain bike racing
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Lenzerheide Elite cross-country
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Brno Elite cross-country
Men's gravel bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2024 Flanders Elite
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Veneto Elite

Mathieu van der Poel (born 19 January 1995) is a Belgian-born Dutch professional cyclist who rides for the UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck.[4] He competes in the cyclo-cross, mountain biking and road racing disciplines of the sport.

Van der Poel has won six Cyclo-cross World Championships (2015, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024), one Gravel World Championship (2024) and one Road World Championship (2023). He has also won multiple stages at grand tours and has numerous classics victories, including winning the Tour of Flanders three times, Paris-Roubaix twice and Milan–San Remo once. His rivalry with Wout van Aert is considered to be one of the great rivalries in the sport.[4]

Early and personal life

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Born in Kapellen, Van der Poel comes from a family of professional cyclists; his brother David was also prominent in cyclo-cross racing, winning the 2013 National Under-23 Championships in Hilvarenbeek.[5] His father, Adri, is a former six-time Dutch National Champion and the World Cyclo-cross Champion for 1996; he was also twice a stage winner at the Tour de France and a winner of several Classics during his career.[6]

His maternal grandfather was French cyclist Raymond Poulidor,[7] winner of the 1964 Vuelta a España, who also finished the Tour de France in runner-up position three times and in third place five times.[8]

Career

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Junior career

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Dominance in cyclo-cross and first road race wins

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Van der Poel made his debut in cyclo-cross during the 2009–10 season, competing in the novices ranks. He won several local races, and at the National Championships in Heerlen, Van der Poel finished in second place, fifteen seconds behind champion Erik Kramer.[9] During the 2010–11 season, Van der Poel won all of the races that he contested; he also combined this with racing on the road in the summer of 2011, and won the Dutch Novice Time Trial Championships in Zwartemeer. The following winter, Van der Poel advanced to the junior ranks, and was immediately dominant in this season; out of all the races he contested, he failed to finish first on only four occasions. He also claimed the junior titles at National,[10] European,[11] and World Championship level,[12] each one by a convincing margin.[13]

Van der Poel at the 2013 Krawatencross

During the 2012 road season, Van der Poel got his first general classification victory[14] at the Ronde des Vallées; he also won the young rider classification at the same race. Van der Poel was a member of the Dutch World Championship squad, when he competed in the junior road race; he finished within the 56-rider main group, and as the best-placed Dutch rider, in ninth position.[15] Picking up where he left off the previous winter, Van der Poel's 2012–13 cyclo-cross campaign was flawless; he contested thirty races, and won every single one of them.[16] Having defended his European title in the United Kingdom,[17] Van der Poel maintained his Dutch title in Hilvarenbeek on the same day that his brother David won the Under-23 Championships.[5]

World champion in cyclo-cross and on the road

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The month after winning his Dutch title, Van der Poel became the first cyclist to defend his junior world title, by winning the race in Louisville, Kentucky, ahead of teammate Martijn Budding.[18] In the 2013 road season, Van der Poel contested several Nations' Cup Juniors events for the Dutch national team. At the Course de la Paix, Van der Poel won the opening stage[19] in a six-rider select group; he held the race lead into the following day, where Mads Pedersen assumed the race lead for the remainder of the race in an individual time trial around Třebenice. Van der Poel finished third, behind Pedersen and Logan Owen.[20] His next appearance came at the Grand Prix Général Patton, where he soloed – from 14 km (8.7 mi) remaining[21] – to a six-second victory on the race's second and final stage in Wincrange, en route to finishing second place overall, five seconds adrift of race-winner Christoffer Lisson of Denmark.[21][22] In the process, he also won the points and mountains sub-classifications.[22]

Van der Poel booked stage victories at the Ain'Ternational–Rhône Alpes–Valromey Tour; riding for Enerthem-BKCP, he won a five-rider sprint on the opener,[23] and defeated France's Élie Gesbert in a head-to-head finish on the final stage,[24] to take the overall race victory by almost half a minute from Gesbert.[25] Prior to his next Nations Cup appearance, Van der Poel won the Dutch National Junior Road Race Championships in Chaam.[26] At the Trophée Centre Morbihan, Van der Poel won the race overall,[27] having defended the race lead from the start, after winning a head-to-head sprint against Belarus' Aleksandr Riabushenko on the opening stage.[27] In the lead up to the World Championships, Van der Poel dominated the Grand Prix Rüebliland event, as he won the opening three of the race's four stages.[28] He won a three-rider sprint in Bettwil to win the opening stage,[28] before a solo victory the following day in Leutwil,[28] and a victory in a 9 km (5.6 mi) individual time trial in Hunzenschwil.[28] Pedersen got the better of Van der Poel in a bunch sprint on the final stage, but Van der Poel had done enough to win the race overall by 46 seconds over Pedersen.[28]

This form made Van der Poel one of the favourites for the World Championships,[29] where he would lead the Dutch squad. In addition to competing in the road race, Van der Poel contested the junior time trial race for the Netherlands, along with Sam Oomen. Van der Poel finished 50th out of the 84 riders to complete the course, over two minutes down on the eventual world champion Igor Decraene of Belgium.[30] In the road race, Van der Poel attacked on the final lap,[31] and bridged up to the race leader Franck Bonnamour of France; he later distanced him on the final climb of Via Salviati – around 5 km (3.1 mi) from the finish – and soloed away to win the gold medal,[6] ahead of Pedersen and Albania's Nikaj Iltjan.[32][33]

Senior career

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Van der Poel (right) in front of Wout Van Aert at the UCI Cyclocross World Cup, Namur, 2015

Van der Poel moved into the under-23 category ahead of the 2013–14 cyclo-cross season.[34] In his first race in the class, Van der Poel won the GP Mario De Clercq – in the BPost Bank Trophy – at Ronse, defeating nearest rival Gianni Vermeersch by twelve seconds.[35] After he finished third in his first World Cup race,[36] Van der Poel won the second round of the season at Tábor in the Czech Republic, beating Vermeersch once again by three seconds.[37] In the process, Van der Poel became the first rider since Niels Albert in 2004 to take an under-23 race victory as a first-year rider.[38] He completed a clean sweep of victories in the major cyclo-cross competitions, by winning at Ruddervoorde in the Superprestige the following day, leading home his rivals by almost a minute.[39] He won a silver medal at the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships in Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic,[40] finishing 23 seconds behind winner Michael Vanthourenhout.

Van der Poel turned professional with the BKCP–Powerplus team at the start of the 2014 season, joining brother David at the squad, having signed a four-year contract.[41] Prior to doing so, Van der Poel made his elite debut in the Scheldecross Antwerpen,[42] in December 2013; Van der Poel was competing alongside professionals as there was no under-23 race. He finished second in the race, five seconds behind his future teammate Niels Albert,[43] having dropped Philipp Walsleben and Rob Peeters in the closing stages.[44] He again finished second to Albert ten days later in the Grand Prix De Ster Sint-Niklaas, losing out in a two-man sprint finish.[45] He ended 2013 with his fourth Superprestige victory of the season at Diegem.[46]

Van der Poel at the 2018 Cross-country World Cup in Albstadt

After finishing second to Wout van Aert in his opening race of 2014 at the Grand Prix Sven Nys,[47] Van der Poel secured the overall under-23 World Cup title with his fourth win of the season, at the Memorial Romano Scotti in Rome.[48] He achieved his first professional victory at the Boels Classic Internationale Cyclo-cross in Heerlen, beating closest rivals Thijs van Amerongen and Rob Peeters.[49] In his first senior road race, Van der Poel finished seventh in the Omloop der Kempen, which had finished in a sprint to the line in Veldhoven. Just a few weeks later he secured his first professional victory on the road, winning the Ronde van Limburg.[50]

He began to compete in the cross-country cycling discipline of the sport having set his sights on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In 2017 he placed 2nd in the World Cup at Albstadt behind world champion Nino Schurter. In 2018 he raced a full World Cup season finishing 2nd in the series overall and 3rd at the World Championships in Lenzerheide, as well as winning the Dutch National Championship.

At the 2018 European Cycling Championships in Glasgow, Van der Poel competed in the cross-country mountain bike and the road race, winning a silver medal in the latter.

2019 - first classics victories

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Van der Poel celebrating victory in the 2019 Dwars door Vlaanderen

Van der Poel won the 2019 Dwars door Vlaanderen.[51]

In March 2019, van der Poel won the 2019 Grand Prix de Denain. He attacked from a leading group of three riders, including Alex Kirsch of Luxembourg and Trek–Segafredo and Estonian Mihkel Räim of Israel Cycling Academy, and rode over eight kilometers solo to the finish.[52]

At the 2019 Amstel Gold Race, van der Poel was the first of the favourites to attack at 43 km to the finish together with Gorka Izagirre, but their attempt was brought back by the peloton soon after. After the final ascent of the Cauberg, Julian Alaphilippe and Jakob Fuglsang had a lead of 30 seconds over the two chasers and nearly a minute over the group behind. With 3 km to go their lead was up to 40 seconds over Michał Kwiatkowski. At that point, the two in front stopped collaborating with each other, attempting to conserve energy for their final sprint. However, they were then caught in the last kilometer, first by Kwiatkowski and then by the other chase group led by Van der Poel. In the ensuing sprint, Van der Poel proved to be the strongest[53][54]

2020 - first Tour of Flanders win

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In October, van der Poel won the 2020 Tour of Flanders, by outsprinting Wout van Aert. The pair had broken away with Julian Alaphillipe before the latter crashed out in an incident involving a race motorcycle.[55]

2021 - Tour de France stage win and yellow jersey

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Van der Poel in the yellow jersey in the 2021 Tour de France

In 2021, Van der Poel competed in his first grand tour, the 2021 Tour de France. Here he succeeded in winning the second stage and acquired the yellow jersey, which he wore for six days. He also secured the King of the Mountain jersey on that stage, which he held for a single day.

Van der Poel participated in the Mountain Biking event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The event had seven laps, but he crashed on a descent in the first lap, as he was apparently unaware that a ramp, present during practice, had been removed.[56] He managed to continue racing, but eventually pulled out after the sixth lap, unable to make up lost time.

Due to persistent back problems, worsened by his Olympic crash, Van der Poel did not defend his title at the 2021 Tour of Britain.[57] He won the 2021 edition of the Antwerp Port Epic, which he used as a trial run for the UCI World Championships.

He came eighth at the 2021 UCI Road World Championships and finished his road season in the 2021 Paris–Roubaix where he took the final podium place covered head to toe in mud.[58] He put an initial hold on his cyclocross season due to his continued back pain, and eventually raced twice before pulling out altogether. At his first race, the Dendermonde World Cup, he finished second behind Wout van Aert. In his second and final race of the season, he crashed early on and pulled out after seven laps.[59]

In September 2021, he renewed his contract with Alpecin–Fenix until 2025.[60]

2022 - second Tour of Flanders win

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Van der Poel at the 2022 Giro d'Italia

After three months of rest due to his back pain, Van der Poel began his 2022 season at Milan–San Remo, where he finished third.[61] He rode in the Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali, a five-day stage race, where he won the fourth stage.[62]

He won the Dwars door Vlaanderen.[63]

At the Ronde van Vlaanderen, Tadej Pogačar, making his debut at the race, attacked on the second ascent of Oude Kwaremont and the Koppenberg to pull ahead of the peloton with a select group of riders including van der Poel. Pogačar accelerated twice more on the final ascent of Oude Kwaremont and the Paterberg with only van der Poel able to go with him. The duo rode slowly inside the final kilometre as they prepared for the sprint but this action allowed Dylan van Baarle and Valentin Madouas to come back in the final few hundred metres before van der Poel took the win in the sprint finish.[64]

After a fourth in Amstel Gold Race[65] and a ninth in Paris–Roubaix,[66] Van der Poel made his first appearance at the Giro d'Italia,[67] the second Grand Tour participation of his career. He won the opening stage and wore the pink leader's jersey for three stages.[68] He also won the overall Combativity Award.[69]

In September, Van der Poel was convicted of common assault against two girls aged 13 and 14, after an incident in a hotel in Sydney the night before the Road World Championship; the conviction was overturned following appeal in December.[70]

2023 - Road World Champion

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Van der Poel after winning the 2023 Milan–San Remo

Van der Poel began his 2023 season with a win at the X20 Trofee Herentals cyclocross race.[71] He followed this up with two further wins and two silver medals before taking part in the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships, which he won for a fifth time after a tight sprint against Wout van Aert.[72]

At Milan–San Remo, Van der Poel attacked at the top of the Poggio di San Remo, leaving his main rivals Wout van Aert, Tadej Pogačar and Filippo Ganna behind and soloing into the finish in San Remo.[73]

In April, Van der Poel won Paris-Roubaix, setting a new record of 46.841 km/h, an improvement of more than 1 km/h over the previous record, and finished second in the Tour of Flanders.[74]

On 6 August 2023, van der Poel won the elite men's road race at the 2023 UCI Road World Championships, held in Glasgow as part of the inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships. van der Poel attacked the leading group of riders including van Aert, Pogacar and Mads Pedersen (cyclist) in the closing laps and despite suffering a crash and damaging his shoe was able to extend his lead to take solo victory.[75][76]

2024 - Roubaix-Flanders double

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Van der Poel began his 2024 road season at Milan-San Remo, where Van der Poel rode for his teammate Jasper Philipsen, following Tadej Pogačar's attacks over the top of the Poggio and pacing the final lead in to San Remo, where Philipsen sprinted for the win.[77]

Van der Poel had a strong cobbled classics season, winning the E3 Saxo Classic, finishing second at Gent–Wevelgem, and then winning the Tour of Flanders for a record-tying third time.[78][79] The next week, Van der Poel won Paris-Roubaix for the second consecutive year.[80]

In October, Van der Poel won the UCI Gravel World Championships, dropping breakaway companion Florian Vermeersch with 13 km to go and winning solo with over a minute gap.[81] This marked Van der Poel's eighth world championship across three different disciplines.

Career achievements

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See also: List of career achievements by Mathieu van der Poel

References

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