Wout Poels

Wouter Lambertus Martinus Henricus Poels (born 1 October 1987) is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam.

Career
Poels was born in Venray. He almost lost a kidney after a massive crash on the sixth stage of the 2012 Tour de France.

After competing with the squad since 2009, Poels moved to the  squad for the 2014 season.

Team Sky (2015–19)
In September 2014, announced that Poels would join them from 1 January 2015. His first win for the team came in the 2015 Tirreno–Adriatico, where he led the team following the withdrawal of Chris Froome. Poels won stage 4 into Castelraimondo with an attack on the final climb and a solo descent to the finish line. He moved into the lead of the race and went on to finish seventh in the overall standings. He later finished second overall at the Tour of Britain, winning the toughest mountain stage with an uphill finish on Hartside Fell.

In 2016, Poels won his first one-day race after sprinting to victory from a four-man group in Liège–Bastogne–Liège. It was the first monument for Team Sky and for Poels himself.

Bahrain–McLaren (2020–present)
In September 2019, Poels announced that he was joining the team, later renamed as, for the 2020 season. In his first season with the team, Poels finished sixth overall at the Vuelta a España. The following year, he held the polka-dot jersey for four days at the 2021 Tour de France, and recorded his best finish at the race to that point – sixteenth overall. In 2022, Poels won the penultimate stage and the general classification at the Vuelta a Andalucía, his first overall stage race win since 2016. Poels then won his first Tour de France stage in 2023; having been part of a large breakaway on stage fifteen, Poels and three other riders went clear following the Col des Aravis, with Poels soloing away on the final climb towards Saint-Gervais-les-Bains and he ultimately won the stage by more than two minutes.

Major results
Source:


 * 2007
 * 10th Overall Vuelta a Extremadura
 * 1st Mountains classification


 * 2008
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta Ciclista a León
 * 3rd Overall Volta a Lleida
 * 3rd Rund um Düren
 * 9th Overall Circuit des Ardennes


 * 2010 (2 pro wins)
 * 1st Stage 4 Tour of Britain
 * 2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain
 * 1st Stage 4
 * 8th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
 * 9th Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop


 * 2011 (1)
 * 1st Stage 15 Vuelta a España
 * 2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain
 * 1st Stage 3
 * 3rd Overall Tour Méditerranéen
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
 * 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
 * 4th Overall Tour de Pologne


 * 2012 (1)
 * 2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
 * 1st Stage 3
 * 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
 * 8th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
 * 1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification


 * 2013 (1)
 * 7th Amstel Curaçao Race
 * 8th Overall Tour de l'Ain
 * 1st Stage 4
 * 9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
 * 10th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico


 * 2014 (1)
 * 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
 * 9th Strade Bianche
 * 10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
 * 1st Stage 4


 * 2015 (2)
 * 2nd Overall Tour of Britain
 * 1st Stage 5
 * 3rd Overall Abu Dhabi Tour
 * 5th Milano–Torino
 * 7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
 * 1st Stage 4
 * 8th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
 * 8th GP Ouest-France


 * 2016 (6)
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
 * 1st Jersey white dots on red.svg Mountains classification
 * 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 4
 * 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
 * 1st Stage 5 Volta a Catalunya
 * 1st Stage 6 Tour of Britain
 * 4th La Flèche Wallonne
 * 7th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía


 * 2017 (1)
 * 3rd Overall Tour de Pologne
 * 1st Stage 7
 * 4th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
 * 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
 * 6th Overall Vuelta a España
 * 6th Milano–Torino
 * 7th Overall Tour of Guangxi


 * 2018 (3)
 * 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Paris–Nice
 * 2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Points classification
 * 1st Stage 2
 * 2nd Overall Tour of Britain
 * 1st Stage 6


 * 2019 (1)
 * 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
 * 3rd Overall Volta ao Algarve
 * 4th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
 * 1st Stage 7
 * 7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
 * 10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège


 * 2020
 * 6th Overall Vuelta a España
 * 6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
 * Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 5 Tour de France


 * 2021
 * 4th Overall Tour de la Provence
 * Tour de France
 * Held Jersey polkadot.svg after Stages 8 & 15–17
 * Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 8


 * 2022 (2)
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
 * 1st Stage 4


 * 2023 (2)
 * 1st Stage 15 Tour de France
 * 1st Stage 20 Vuelta a España
 * 6th Overall UAE Tour
 * 9th Overall Tour of Slovenia


 * 2024 (1)
 * 3rd Overall Tour de Hongrie
 * 1st Stage 5
 * 6th Overall Tour of the Alps