Justin Jules

Justin Jules (born 20 September 1986) is a French professional road bicycle racer, who most recently rode for UCI ProTeam .

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

Career Jules has competed as a professional since the start of the 2011 season, as the 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, and held the overall race lead for a week. After a spell with the Véranda Rideau-Super U squad in 2012, Jules rejoined for the 2013 season. 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 's Samuel Dumoulin and rider Thomas Damuseau, for victory.

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 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

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