Justin Jules

Justin Jules (born 20 September 1986) is a French professional road bicycle racer, who most recently rode for UCI ProTeam.

Personal life
Born in Sartrouville, he is the son of Pascal Jules, a professional cyclist who was active during the 1980s – achieving one Tour de France stage victory in 1984 – who died in a road traffic accident when Justin was just over a year old.

In 2008, Jules was sentenced to three years in prison for the manslaughter of his step-father in 2004. The sentence had been reduced due to a complicated upbringing and his step-father's troubles with alcoholism.

Career
Jules has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, as the team he had joined from the Vendée U-Pays de la Loire team, successfully became a Continental team. Jules achieved his first professional victory at the 2011 Tour of Hainan, when he won the first stage of the race, and held the overall race lead for a week. After a spell with the Véranda Rideau-Super U squad in 2012, Jules rejoined for the 2013 season. In his first race since rejoining, Jules won a bunch sprint for the honours in the season-opening race of the 2013 UCI Europe Tour, the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise; he managed to hold off the advances of 's Samuel Dumoulin and rider Thomas Damuseau, for victory.

Major results

 * 2009
 * 5th Tour du Gâtinais


 * 2010
 * 3rd Overall Circuit des Plages Vendéennes
 * 1st Stage 7
 * 3rd GP Christian Fenioux
 * 4th Overall Saint Brieuc Agglo-Tour


 * 2011
 * 1st Stage 1 Tour of Hainan
 * 5th Tour du Finistère
 * 8th Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise


 * 2012
 * 5th Overall Circuit des Plages Vendéennes
 * 8th Tour du Finistère


 * 2013
 * 1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
 * 3rd Route Adélie
 * 5th Classic Loire Atlantique
 * 6th Val d'Ille Classic
 * 8th Overall Tour du Haut Var
 * 10th Tour of Nanjing


 * 2014
 * 1st Stage 5 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
 * 5th Overall Ronde de l'Oise
 * 10th Châteauroux Classic


 * 2015
 * 1st Stage 1 Tour de Tunisie
 * 2nd Nokere Koerse
 * 4th Overall Tour de Gironde
 * 5th Overall Tour du Maroc
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 1st Stage 5
 * 6th Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise
 * 6th Halle–Ingooigem
 * 7th Omloop van het Waasland
 * 10th Cholet-Pays de Loire
 * 10th Grand Prix Criquielion


 * 2016
 * 1st Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas
 * 1st Stage 8 Tour du Maroc
 * 1st Stage 2 Tour de Tunisie
 * 5th Antwerpse Havenpijl
 * 5th UAE Cup
 * 7th Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
 * 8th Memorial Van Coningsloo
 * 9th Gooikse Pijl


 * 2017
 * 1st Stage 1 Circuit de la Sarthe
 * 2nd Tour de Vendée
 * 3rd Overall Tour de Normandie
 * 1st Points classification
 * 1st Stage 4
 * 3rd Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
 * 3rd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
 * 4th Druivenkoers Overijse
 * 4th Paris–Bourges
 * 6th Paris–Troyes
 * 6th Grand Prix de Fourmies
 * 7th Overall Tour La Provence
 * 1st Stage 1


 * 2018
 * 3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
 * 1st Stage 1
 * 3rd Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
 * 4th Grand Prix Criquielion
 * 5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
 * 6th Druivenkoers Overijse
 * 7th Overall Tour of Norway
 * 8th Overall Volta ao Alentejo


 * 2019
 * 2nd Volta Limburg Classic
 * 5th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
 * 6th Grand Prix de Denain
 * 7th Nokere Koerse
 * 9th Overall Vuelta a Aragón
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 1st Stage 1