Jean-Paul van Poppel
- Rider
- Sports director
- Tour de France
- Points classification (1987)
- 9 individual stages (1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994)
- Giro d'Italia
- 4 individual stages (1986, 1989)
- Vuelta a España
Jean-Paul van Poppel (born 30 September 1962 in Tilburg, North Brabant) is a Dutch former racing cyclist, who was nicknamed Popeye.
Van Poppel was one of the most successful Dutch road sprinters. He won stages in mass sprints in all three Grand Tours, sometimes from positions that appeared lost. In the Tour de France he won 9 stages altogether. In 1988 he won 4 stages, the highest won number by a Dutch cyclist in one tour.[1] He also competed in the individual road race event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[2]
Van Poppel won the points classification in the 1987 Tour de France. After he ended his career in 1995, he became a directeur sportif in women's cycling. With his first wife, cyclist Leontine van der Lienden, Jean-Paul van Poppel has two sons, Boy van Poppel who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty.,[3] and Danny van Poppel currently riding for BORA-Hansgrohe and a daughter Kim.[4] Van der Lienden and Van Poppel have since divorced. Van Poppel remarried in 2004 with one of his team members, cyclist Mirjam Melchers.
From 2009 to 2010 he was one of the sports directors at the Cervélo Test Team based in Switzerland.[5] From 2011, he has served as a sports director for the Vacansoleil–DCM until 2014. From 2015 till the team folded in 2019, van Poppel serves as a sports director for the Dutch ProContinental Team Team Roompot, together with Erik Breukink and Michael Boogerd.
Major results
Source:[6]
- 1985
- 1st Stage 7 Danmark Rundt
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 3a Tour of Belgium
- 1986
- 1st Scheldeprijs
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 2 & 13
- 1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1987
- Tour de France
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st Stages 8 & 17
- 1st
- Tour of Sweden
- 1st Stages 5, 6a & 7
- 1988
- 1st Scheldeprijs
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 3, 10, 17 & 22
- 1989
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 1 & 15
- 1st Veenendaal–Veenendaal
- 1991
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 6, 9, 13 & 21
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 5 Paris–Nice
- 1992
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 3 & 5
- 1st Stage 10 Tour de France
- 1993
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 4 & 8
- 1994
- 1st
Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 9 Vuelta a España
See also
References
- ^ Nederlandse helden: Jean-Paul van Poppel (in Dutch) Archived 8 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Jean-Paul van Poppel Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
- ^ "Intermarché – Wanty – Gobert Matériaux". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ Rob Lampard (13 September 2012). "De Maar wins alone in Stoke". Cycling News. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^ Van Poppel signs with Cervelo
- ^ Jean-Paul van Poppel at Cycling Archives
External links
- Jean-Paul van Poppel at Cycling Archives
- Jean-Paul van Poppel at ProCyclingStats
- Jean-Paul van Poppel at CycleBase
- Jean-Paul van Poppel at Olympedia
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- 1953: Fritz Schär
- 1954: Ferdinand Kübler
- 1955–1956: Stan Ockers
- 1957: Jean Forestier
- 1958: Jean Graczyk
- 1959: André Darrigade
- 1960: Jean Graczyk
- 1961: André Darrigade
- 1962: Rudi Altig
- 1963: Rik Van Looy
- 1964–1965: Jan Janssen
- 1966: Willy Planckaert
- 1967: Jan Janssen
- 1968: Franco Bitossi
- 1969: Eddy Merckx
- 1970: Walter Godefroot
- 1971–1972: Eddy Merckx
- 1973: Herman Vanspringel
- 1974: Patrick Sercu
- 1975: Rik Van Linden
- 1976: Freddy Maertens
- 1977: Jacques Esclassan
- 1978: Freddy Maertens
- 1979: Bernard Hinault
- 1980: Rudy Pevenage
- 1981: Freddy Maertens
- 1982–1983: Sean Kelly
- 1984: Frank Hoste
- 1985: Sean Kelly
- 1986: Eric Vanderaerden
- 1987: Jean-Paul van Poppel
- 1988: Eddy Planckaert
- 1989: Sean Kelly
- 1990: Olaf Ludwig
- 1991: Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
- 1992: Laurent Jalabert
- 1993–1994: Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
- 1995: Laurent Jalabert
- 1996–2001: Erik Zabel
- 2002: Robbie McEwen
- 2003: Baden Cooke
- 2004: Robbie McEwen
- 2005: Thor Hushovd
- 2006: Robbie McEwen
- 2007: Tom Boonen
- 2008: Óscar Freire
- 2009: Thor Hushovd
- 2010: Alessandro Petacchi
- 2011: Mark Cavendish
- 2012–2016: Peter Sagan
- 2017: Michael Matthews
- 2018–2019: Peter Sagan
- 2020: Sam Bennett
- 2021: Mark Cavendish
- 2022: Wout van Aert
- 2023: Jasper Philipsen
- 2024: Biniam Girmay