Justin Jules
 Jules at the 2014 Paris–Arras Tour | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Justin Jules |
| Born | 20 September 1986 Sartrouville, France |
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2006 | VC Les Mureaux |
| 2007 | CA Mantes |
| 2008–2009 | OC Val d'Oise |
| 2010 | Vendée U–Pays de la Loire |
| Professional teams | |
| 2011 | La Pomme Marseille |
| 2012 | Véranda Rideau–Super U |
| 2013–2014 | La Pomme Marseille[1] |
| 2015–2016 | Veranclassic–Ekoi |
| 2017–2019 | WB Veranclassic Aqua Protect[2] |
| 2020–2021 | Nippo–Delko–One Provence[3] |
Justin Jules (born 20 September 1986) is a French professional road bicycle racer, who most recently rode for UCI ProTeam Delko.[4]
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
- 1st
- 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
- 1st
References
- ^ "La Pomme Marseille (LPM) – FRA". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ "Pro Team 2019". Wallonie Bruxelles. Cycling Team Wallonie-Bruxelles. Archived from the original on 12 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
- ^ "Nippo Delko Provence". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 8 January 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Delko". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 5 January 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
- ^ "Jules s'offre un destin" [Jules offers destiny]. L'Équipe (in French). Éditions Philippe Amaury. 27 January 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b "Justin Jules fastest in first Euro sprint finish". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 27 January 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Jules captures Hainan opener". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Atkins, Ben (27 January 2013). "Justin Jules sprints to his biggest win to open the European season". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
External links
- La Pomme Marseille profile
- Justin Jules at UCI
- Justin Jules at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Justin Jules at ProCyclingStats
- Justin Jules at Cycling Quotient
- Justin Jules at CycleBase
- Justin Jules at UCI
