Jean-Paul van Poppel
Personal information
Full nameJean-Paul van Poppel
NicknamePopeye
Born (1962-09-30) 30 September 1962
Tilburg, the Netherlands
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
Role
  • Rider
  • Sports director
Rider typeSprinter
Professional teams
1985–1986Skala–Gazelle
1987–1988Superconfex–Kwantum–Yoko–Colnago
1989–1990Panasonic–Isostar–Colnago–Agu
1991–1992PDM–Concorde–Ultima
1993–1994Festina–Lotus
1995Le Groupement
Managerial teams
2000Dutch national women's team
2001Acca Due O
2003American national women's team
2004Farm Frites–Hartol
2005–2006Buitenpoort–Flexpoint
2007–2008Team Flexpoint
2009–2010Cervélo TestTeam
2011–2014Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team
2015–2019Roompot–Charles
Major wins
Grand Tours
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
9 individual stages (1991–1994)

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
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

  1. ↑ Nederlandse helden: Jean-Paul van Poppel (in Dutch) Archived 8 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Jean-Paul van Poppel Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Intermarché – Wanty – Gobert Matériaux". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Rob Lampard (13 September 2012). "De Maar wins alone in Stoke". Cycling News. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
  5. ↑ Van Poppel signs with Cervelo
  6. ↑ Jean-Paul van Poppel at Cycling Archives
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