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
Junior career
Dominance in cyclo-cross and first road race wins
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]
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
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
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]
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.
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
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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.
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^Weislo, Laura (4 February 2013). "Dutch top medal count at Louisville 'cross Worlds". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 3 November 2013. Aside from Marianne Vos's sixth rainbow jersey in the women's race, the Dutch were top two in the juniors with Mathieu van der Poel and Martijn Budding, won the U23s thanks to a tenacious ride by Mike Teunissen, and Lars van der Haar was third in the elites.
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^Gachet, Frédéric (14 July 2013). "Ain'Ternational Valromey Tour — Et. 4: Classements" [Ain'Ternational Valromey Tour — Stage 4 Classification]. Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
^"Welten beste nieuweling in Chaam" [Welten best newcomer in Chaam]. Brabants Dagblad (in Dutch). Koninklijke Wegener NV. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2013. Bij de junioren ging de titel naar Mathieu van der Poel, de zoon van oud-prof Adrie van der Poel. [In the juniors, the title went to Mathieu van der Poel, the son of former professional Adrie van der Poel.]
^Ostanek, Daniel (24 March 2019). "Van der Poel wins Grand Prix de Denain". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 14 October 2021. Van der Poel went for it again with a brutal attack on the final sector. His companions were left floundering in his wake and were swallowed up by the peloton on the run-in. The 20-second gap looked fragile but Van der Poel was in full solo time trial mode and held strong on the run-in to secure an impressive victory.
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