Max Poole
| File:Rund um Köln 2022 022.jpg Poole, Rund um Köln, 2022 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Max David Poole |
| Born | 1 March 2003 Scunthorpe, England |
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Team Picnic–PostNL |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Professional teams | |
| 2022 | Development Team DSM[1] |
| 2023– | Team DSM–Firmenich |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Max David Poole (born 1 March 2003) is a British cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Picnic–PostNL.[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]As a junior rider, Poole won the British National Road Race Championships and the Tour of Yorkshire Juniors in 2021. In 2022, he joined the Development Team DSM, and competed up a level in several professional races with Team DSM–Firmenich, before joining them full time the following season. In 2023, he competed in his first Grand Tour: the Vuelta a España, winning the stage one team time trial.[3] He saw success in other stage races as well, taking fourth in the Tour de Romandie and the Tour de Hongrie and winning the young rider classification in the Tour of the Alps.
Poole started the 2024 season at the UAE Tour, placing 7th overall. He fractured his elbow in March and did not return to competition until the Vuelta a Burgos in August, where he finished 2nd.[4] He again competed in the Vuelta a España, finishing second on one stage and third on three others. In October, he took his first professional win on stage three of the Tour de Langkawi. In the process, he also took the race lead, which he held until the end.[5]
Major results
[edit | edit source]- 2019
- 1st Coppa d'Oro
- 2020
- 4th Overall La Philippe Gilbert Juniors
- 5th Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
- 2021
- 1st File:Jersey of Great Britain.svg Road race, National Junior Road Championships
- 1st File:Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Yorkshire Juniors
- 2nd Overall La Philippe Gilbert Juniors
- 1st File:Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
- 1st Stage 2
- 7th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
- 9th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
- 10th Overall Grand Prix Rüebliland
- 1st File:Jersey green.svg Points classification
- 1st Stage 1
- 2022
- 5th Giro del Medio Brenta
- 6th Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
- 7th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
- 10th Overall Sazka Tour
- 2023
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
- 1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification, Tour of the Alps
- 4th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 4th Overall Tour de Hongrie
- 2024 (2 pro wins)
- 1st File:Jersey teal Cape Epic.svg Overall Tour de Langkawi
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
- 7th Overall UAE Tour
- 2025
- 7th Overall Tour of the Alps
- 1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit | edit source]| Grand Tour | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia | — | — | 11 |
| File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France | — | — | |
| File:Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España | 49 | 35 |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
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External links
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