Justin Jules

Justin Jules (born 20 September 1986) is a French professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Delko.[4]

Justin Jules
Jules at the 2014 Paris–Arras Tour
Personal information
Full nameJustin Jules
Born (1986-09-20) 20 September 1986
Sartrouville, France
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Team information
Current teamDelko
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Amateur teams
2006VC Les Mureaux
2007CA Mantes
2008–2009OC Val d'Oise
2010Vendée U–Pays de la Loire
Professional teams
2011La Pomme Marseille
2012Véranda Rideau–Super U
2013–2014La Pomme Marseille[1]
2015–2016Veranclassic–Ekoi
2017–2019WB Veranclassic Aqua Protect[2]
2020–Nippo–Delko–One Provence[3]

Personal life

Born in Sartrouville, he is the son of Pascal Jules,[5] a professional cyclist who was active during the 1980s – achieving one Tour de France stage victory in 1984[6] – who died in a road traffic accident when Justin was just over a year old.

In 2008, Jules was sentenced to three years in prison for the manslaughter of his step-father in 2004.[7] The sentence had been reduced due to a complicated upbringing and his step-father's troubles with alcoholism.[8][9]

Career

Jules has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, as the La Pomme Marseille team he had joined from the Vendée U-Pays de la Loire team, successfully became a Continental team. Jules achieved his first professional victory at the 2011 Tour of Hainan, when he won the first stage of the race,[10] and held the overall race lead for a week. After a spell with the Véranda Rideau-Super U squad in 2012, Jules rejoined La Pomme Marseille for the 2013 season.[11] In his first race since rejoining, Jules won a bunch sprint for the honours in the season-opening race of the 2013 UCI Europe Tour, the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise; he managed to hold off the advances of Ag2r–La Mondiale's Samuel Dumoulin and Argos–Shimano rider Thomas Damuseau, for victory.[8][12]

Major results
2009
5th Tour du Gâtinais
2010
3rd Overall Circuit des Plages Vendéennes
1st Stage 7
3rd GP Christian Fenioux
4th Overall Saint Brieuc Agglo-Tour
2011
1st Stage 1 Tour of Hainan
5th Tour du Finistère
8th Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise
2012
5th Overall Circuit des Plages Vendéennes
8th Tour du Finistère
2013
1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
3rd Route Adélie
5th Classic Loire Atlantique
6th Val d'Ille Classic
8th Overall Tour du Haut Var
10th Tour of Nanjing
2014
1st Stage 5 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
5th Overall Ronde de l'Oise
10th Châteauroux Classic
2015
1st Stage 1 Tour de Tunisie
2nd Nokere Koerse
4th Overall Tour de Gironde
5th Overall Tour du Maroc
1st Points classification
1st Stage 5
6th Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise
6th Halle–Ingooigem
7th Omloop van het Waasland
10th Cholet-Pays de Loire
10th Grand Prix Criquielion
2016
1st Grote Prijs Stad Sint-Niklaas
1st Stage 8 Tour du Maroc
1st Stage 2 Tour de Tunisie
5th Antwerpse Havenpijl
5th UAE Cup
7th Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
8th Memorial Van Coningsloo
9th Gooikse Pijl
2017
1st Stage 1 Circuit de la Sarthe
2nd Tour de Vendée
3rd Overall Tour de Normandie
1st Points classification
1st Stage 4
3rd Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
3rd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
4th Druivenkoers Overijse
4th Paris–Bourges
6th Paris–Troyes
6th Grand Prix de Fourmies
7th Overall Tour La Provence
1st Stage 1
2018
3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
1st Stage 1
3rd Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde
4th Grand Prix Criquielion
5th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
6th Druivenkoers Overijse
7th Overall Tour of Norway
8th Overall Volta ao Alentejo
2019
2nd Volta Limburg Classic
5th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne
6th Grand Prix de Denain
7th Nokere Koerse
9th Overall Vuelta a Aragón
1st Points classification
1st Stage 1

References
  1. "La Pomme Marseille (LPM) – FRA". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  2. "Pro Team 2019". Wallonie Bruxelles. Cycling Team Wallonie-Bruxelles. Archived from the original on 12 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  3. "Nippo Delko Provence". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  4. "Delko". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 5 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  5. "Jules s'offre un destin" [Jules offers destiny]. L'Équipe (in French). Éditions Philippe Amaury. 27 January 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  6. Roth, Dan (7 July 1984). "Jules wins Stage 8 of Tour de France". The Palm Beach Post. Cox Enterprises. p. D5. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  7. "Justin Jules condamné à trois ans de prison" [Justin Jules sentenced to three years in prison]. Le Parisien (in French). Éditions Philippe Amaury. 11 January 2008. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  8. "Justin Jules fastest in first Euro sprint finish". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 27 January 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  9. Quivoron, François (27 January 2013). "Jules, une histoire pas comme les autres" [Jules, a story like no other]. Sports.fr (in French). Newsweb. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  10. "Jules captures Hainan opener". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  11. "L'effectif du Team LPM complété" [The staff of the LPM Team is complete]. La Pomme Marseille (in French). Team La Pomme Marseille. 19 December 2012. Archived from the original on 16 February 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  12. Atkins, Ben (27 January 2013). "Justin Jules sprints to his biggest win to open the European season". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
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