Jean-Paul van Poppel

{{Infobox cyclist

| name = Jean-Paul van Poppel

| image = Jean-Paul van Poppel.jpg

| fullname = Jean-Paul van Poppel

| nickname = Popeye

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|9|30|df=y}}

| birth_place = Tilburg, the Netherlands

| currentteam = Retired

| discipline = Road

| role = {{ubl|Rider|Sports director}}

| ridertype = Sprinter

| proyears1 = 1985–1986

| proteam1 = Skala–Gazelle

| proyears2 = 1987–1988

| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|TJV|1987}}

| proyears3 = 1989–1990

| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|Panasonic|1989}}

| proyears6 = 1991–1992

| proteam6 = {{UCI team code|PDM|1991}}

| proyears7 = 1993–1994

| proteam7 = {{UCI team code|FES|1993}}

| proyears8 = 1995

| proteam8 = Le Groupement

| manageyears1 = 2000

| manageteam1 = Dutch national women's team

| manageyears2 = 2001

| manageteam2 = Acca Due O

| manageyears3 = 2003

| manageteam3 = American national women's team

| manageyears4 = 2004

| manageteam4 = Farm Frites–Hartol

| manageyears5 = 2005–2006

| manageteam5 = Buitenpoort–Flexpoint

| manageyears6 = 2007–2008

| manageteam6 = Team Flexpoint

| manageyears7 = 2009–2010

| manageteam7 = Cervélo TestTeam

| manageyears8 = 2011–2014

| manageteam8 = Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team

| manageyears9 = 2015–2019

| manageteam9 = Roompot–Charles

| majorwins =

Grand Tours

:Tour de France

::Points classification (1987)

::9 individual stages (1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1994)

:Giro d'Italia

::4 individual stages (1986, 1989)

:Vuelta a España

::9 individual stages (1991–1994)

}}

Jean-Paul van Poppel (born 30 September 1962 in Tilburg, North Brabant) is a Dutch former racing cyclist, who was nicknamed Popeye.

Van Poppel was one of the most successful Dutch road sprinters. He won stages in mass sprints in all three Grand Tours, sometimes from positions that appeared lost. In the Tour de France he won 9 stages altogether. In 1988 he won 4 stages, the highest won number by a Dutch cyclist in one tour.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120308104512/http://www.wielercentrum.com/tourdefrance/achtergronden/nederlandsehelden/Jean-Paul-van-Poppel-613.html Nederlandse helden: Jean-Paul van Poppel {{in lang{{!}}nl}}]}} He also competed in the individual road race event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/jean-paul-van-poppel-1.html |title=Jean-Paul van Poppel Olympic Results |access-date=24 May 2015 |work=Sports Reference |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524135239/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/jean-paul-van-poppel-1.html |archive-date=24 May 2015 }}

Van Poppel won the points classification in the 1987 Tour de France. After he ended his career in 1995, he became a directeur sportif in women's cycling. With his first wife, cyclist Leontine van der Lienden, Jean-Paul van Poppel has two sons, Boy van Poppel who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam {{UCI team code|IWG}}.,{{cite web|url=https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15230/1001372/279|title=Intermarché – Wanty – Gobert Matériaux|work=UCI.org|publisher=Union Cycliste Internationale|access-date=3 January 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210103151928/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15230/1001372/279|archive-date=3 January 2021}} and Danny van Poppel currently riding for BORA-Hansgrohe and a daughter Kim.{{cite news|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-britain-2012-2-1/stage-5/results|title=De Maar wins alone in Stoke|website=Cycling News|date=13 September 2012|access-date=14 September 2012|author=Rob Lampard}} Van der Lienden and Van Poppel have since divorced. Van Poppel remarried in 2004 with one of his team members, cyclist Mirjam Melchers.

From 2009 to 2010 he was one of the sports directors at the Cervélo Test Team based in Switzerland.[http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/van-poppel-signs-with-cervelo Van Poppel signs with Cervelo] From 2011, he has served as a sports director for the {{UCI team code|VCD|2013}} until 2014. From 2015 till the team folded in 2019, van Poppel serves as a sports director for the Dutch ProContinental Team {{UCI team code|RNL|2015}}, together with Erik Breukink and Michael Boogerd.