Wout Poels, whose full name is Wouter Lambertus Martinus Henricus Poels, was born on 1 October 1987 in Venray and is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer. He rode for Vacansoleil-DCM from 2009 and for Omega Pharma-Quick-Step in 2014, then for Team Sky from 2015 to 2019, Bahrain-McLaren from 2020 to 2024, XDS Astana in 2025 and Unibet Rose Rockets from 2026. In 2016 he won Liege-Bastogne-Liege, the first monument victory for both Poels and Team Sky. At the 2021 Tour de France he held the polka-dot jersey for four days, and in 2023 he won his first Tour de France stage, soloing away on the final climb to Saint-Gervais-les-Bains. He also won the Vuelta a Andalucia in 2022 and the Presidential Tour of Turkey in 2025. He almost lost a kidney in a crash at the 2012 Tour de France.
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