Justin Jules

Justin Jules

Jules at the 2014 Paris–Arras Tour
Personal information
Full name Justin Jules
Born (1986-09-20) 20 September 1986
Sartrouville, France
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb)
Team information
Current team Veranclassic-Ekoi
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter
Amateur team(s)
2006 VC Les Mureaux
2007 CA Mantes
2008–2009 OC Val d'Oise
2010 Vendée U-Pays de la Loire
Professional team(s)
2011 La Pomme Marseille
2012 Véranda Rideau-Super U
2013–2014 La Pomme Marseille[1]
2015– Veranclassic-Ekoi
Major wins
Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise (2013)
Infobox last updated on
22 March 2015

Justin Jules (born 20 September 1986) is a French professional road bicycle racer, who as of 2015 rides for UCI Continental Team Veranclassic-Ekoi.

Personal life

Born in Sartrouville, he is the son of Pascal Jules,[2] a professional cyclist who was active during the 1980s – achieving one Tour de France stage victory in 1984[3] – 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 murder of his step-father in 2004.[4] The sentence had been reduced due to a complicated upbringing and his step-father's troubles with alcoholism.[5][6]

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,[7] 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.[8] 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.[5][9]

Palmarès

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 U Classic 35
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
2nd Nokere Koerse[10]
7th Omloop van het Waasland

References

  1. ↑ "La Pomme Marseille (LPM) – FRA". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Jules s'offre un destin" [Jules offers destiny]. L'Équipe (in French) (Éditions Philippe Amaury). 27 January 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. 1 2 "Justin Jules fastest in first Euro sprint finish". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 27 January 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ "Jules captures Hainan opener". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 20 October 2011. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "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. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  9. ↑ Atkins, Ben (27 January 2013). "Justin Jules sprints to his biggest win to open the European season". VeloNation (VeloNation LLC). Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  10. ↑ Weislo, Laura (18 March 2015). "Boeckmans wins Nokere Koerse". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 20 March 2015.

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