Neilson Powless (born September 3, 1996) is an American and Oneida Nation professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost.[5] Powless is the first US Native American to compete in the Tour de France.[6][7]
.jpg) Powless in 2023 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Neilson Powless |
| Born | September 3, 1996 Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, U.S.[1] |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | EF Education–EasyPost |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Puncheur, Classics specialist |
| Professional teams | |
| 2016–2017 | Axeon–Hagens Berman |
| 2018–2019 | LottoNL–Jumbo[2][3] |
| 2020– | EF Pro Cycling[4] |
| Major wins | |
| One-day races and Classics | |
Career
editEarly career 2018–2021
editPowless turned professional with LottoNL–Jumbo in 2018. He competed in his first Grand Tour at the 2019 Vuelta a España.[8] Powless, along with Jumbo-Visma teammates Robert Gesink, George Bennett and Sepp Kuss, each finished between 27th and 33rd in the overall standings en route to assisting Primož Roglič in winning the race.
The next season he moved to EF Pro Cycling. He was named on the startlist for the 2020 Tour de France. He rode in support of GC contender and team leader Rigoberto Urán. During this tour he got involved in a breakaway and earned a top 5 stage finish.
Following his strong debut, Powless again was named as part of the EF Team for the 2021 Tour de France.[9] Early in the season he finished 5th in the 2021 UAE Tour, in July he won the 2021 Clásica de San Sebastián, becoming only the second American to do so, and late in the season he finished 5th in the UCI world championship.
2022–present
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During the 2022 Tour de Suisse Powless was active in several breakaways and stayed with the overall leaders throughout the entire race finishing in 4th place overall.
He was added to the start list for the 2022 Tour de France, joining Nairo Quintana as the other Indigenous American rider to start the race.[10] On stage 5 of the Tour, a particularly brutal stage with many cobbled sections, he joined a breakaway that survived to the finish. Overall leader Wout van Aert crashed multiple times giving Powless the chance to move into the yellow jersey. Van Aert was able to limit his losses, but Powless moved into 2nd place overall. At +0:13 this was the closest an American had come to wearing the leader's jersey since Tejay van Garderen tied for the lead in the first week of the 2018 edition.[11] The next day he came within +0:04 of the lead, but Tadej Pogačar seized control of the race and on stage 7 Powless began to fall back. Powless was active in other breakaways throughout the race including being the only rider to attack on kilometer zero of stage 12, which culminated on Alpe d'Huez. Several dozen riders attacked throughout the day but very few survived ahead of the GC favorites. Powless did survive, and placed fourth, he also advanced as high as 3rd place in the mountains classification by the start of the third week.[12] He ultimately finished the Tour in 13th (subsequently upgraded to 12th), the highest ranked rider on the team and the only Team EF rider inside the top 25.
He ended the 2022 season with a solo victory at the Japan Cup.[13]
Powless started the 2023 season with success, winning both the Étoile de Bessèges stage race and the single-day Grand Prix La Marseillaise. He then saw multiple top 10 finishes in the spring World Tour races, including the Tour of Flanders, Dwars door Vlaanderen, Paris–Nice and Milan–San Remo.
He was again selected to race in the Tour de France, where he led the mountains classification for all but one of the first thirteen stages. He ultimately lost the lead to Giulio Ciccone and finished fourth.[14]
Personal life
editHis mother Jen Allred ran the marathon for Guam at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[15] His older sister is fellow professional racing cyclist Shayna Powless.[16] Powless married Frances Powless (née Chae) in 2020.[17] The couple had their first child in 2023.[18]
Major results
edit- 2016
- 1st Overall Joe Martin Stage Race
- 1st Stage 8 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 3 Redlands Bicycle Classic
- 1st Stage 3a (ITT) Tour de Beauce
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Olympia's Tour
- 9th Overall Tour of California
- 1st Young rider classification
- 2017
- National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 1st Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 3rd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
- 1st Stage 3a (ITT)
- 4th Overall Tour of Utah
- 1st Young rider classification
- 6th Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
- 1st Stage 1
- 6th Giro del Belvedere
- 2018
- 7th Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 5 (TTT)
- 9th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 10th Raiffeisen Grand Prix
- 2019
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 7th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 7th Japan Cup
- 2020
- 4th Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 2021 (1 pro win)
- 1st Clásica de San Sebastián
- 5th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 5th Overall UAE Tour
- 6th Coppa Sabatini
- 2022 (1)
- 1st Japan Cup
- 3rd Maryland Cycling Classic
- 4th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 2023 (2)
- 1st Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 1st Grand Prix La Marseillaise
- 2nd Maryland Cycling Classic
- 3rd Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var
- 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 4th Clásica de San Sebastián
- 5th Tour of Flanders
- 6th Overall Paris–Nice
- 7th Milan–San Remo
- Tour de France
- Held after Stages 1–4 & 6–13
- Combativity award Stage 2
- 2024 (2)
- 1st Gran Piemonte
- 1st Japan Cup
- National Road Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 4th Coppa Bernocchi
- 6th Clásica de San Sebastián
- 8th Giro di Lombardia
- 8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
General classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||
| Grand Tour | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Tour de France | — | — | 56 | 43 | 12 | 66 | 59 | ||
| Vuelta a España | — | 31 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Major stage race general classification results | |||||||||
| Race | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||
| Paris–Nice | — | — | — | 25 | DNF | 6 | — | ||
| Tirreno–Adriatico | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | ||
| Volta a Catalunya | — | — | NH | — | DNF | — | — | ||
| Tour of the Basque Country | DNF | 79 | — | — | — | — | |||
| Tour de Romandie | — | DNF | 87 | 14 | — | — | |||
| Critérium du Dauphiné | 82 | 24 | — | — | — | — | DNF | ||
| Tour de Suisse | — | — | NH | 14 | 4 | 20 | — | ||
Classics results timeline
edit| Monument | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | 83 | — | — | — | — | 7 | — |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | NH | — | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | 92 | — | 8 | 65 | — |
| Giro di Lombardia | — | 62 | — | 51 | 34 | — | 8 |
| Classic | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Strade Bianche | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | 86 |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — |
| Amstel Gold Race | — | — | NH | — | — | DNF | — |
| La Flèche Wallonne | — | — | — | — | 19 | DNF | — |
| Clásica de San Sebastián | — | — | NH | 1 | — | 4 | 6 |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec | — | — | Not held | 23 | 20 | 8 | |
| Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal | — | — | DNF | 33 | 23 | ||
| Gran Piemonte | — | — | — | — | 19 | — | 1 |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
edit- ^ "BIO - NEILSON POWLESS USA CYCLING". Archived from the original on March 9, 2023. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
- ^ "Powless signs two-year deal with LottoNL-Jumbo". Cyclingnews.com. September 10, 2017. Archived from the original on April 5, 2019. Retrieved January 4, 2018.
- ^ "Cheery Christmas for ambitious Team Jumbo-Visma". Team Jumbo–Visma. Team Oranje Road BV. December 21, 2018. Archived from the original on April 13, 2019. Retrieved January 4, 2019.
- ^ Bacon, Ellis (January 1, 2020). "2020 Team Preview: EF Education First". Cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on January 2, 2020. Retrieved January 2, 2020.
- ^ "EF Education – Nippo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on January 1, 2021. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ^ Ninham, Dan (September 28, 2019). "Catching Up With World Class Cyclists Shayna and Neilson Powless (Oneida) at the UCI Road World Championships". NDNSPORTS. Archived from the original on October 1, 2019. Retrieved August 30, 2020.
- ^ Kerber, Jasmine (August 29, 2020). "Roseville 23-year-old will make history in his Tour de France debut this weekend". The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on August 31, 2020. Retrieved August 29, 2020.
- ^ "2019: 74th La Vuelta ciclista a España". ProCyclingStats. Archived from the original on July 29, 2019. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
- ^ "107th Tour de France: Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Archived from the original on August 28, 2020. Retrieved August 27, 2020.
- ^ "Neilson Powless, Nairo Quintana show Indigenous Strength at the 2022 Tour de France". Yahoo! News. July 26, 2022. Archived from the original on July 27, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2022 – via Native News Online.
- ^ Talk, Olympic (July 6, 2022). "American Neilson Powless nearly rides into Tour de France lead". NBC. Archived from the original on July 6, 2022. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
- ^ Biderman, Chris (July 13, 2022). "Roseville's Neilson Powless ascends peaks of Tour de France pecking order". The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on September 18, 2023. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
- ^ "Startlist for Japan Cup 2022". ProCyclingStats. Archived from the original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
- ^ Stokes, Shane (July 23, 2023). "Tour de France: How Giulio Ciccone edged past Neilson Powless in race for the King of the Mountains". velo.outsideonline.com. Archived from the original on September 18, 2023. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ^ "Neilson Powless: A name to remember". May 17, 2016. Archived from the original on September 29, 2020. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
- ^ George, Sue (August 29, 2013). "High school cycling produces world class athletes". cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved September 3, 2020.
- ^ "A Romantic Cliffside Wedding with Breathtaking Views of Big Sur". May 10, 2021. Archived from the original on July 8, 2023. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
- ^ Powless, Neilson (September 25, 2023). "Instagram Post - September 25, 2023". Instagram. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
External links
edit- Neilson Powless at UCI
- Neilson Powless at Cycling Archives
- Neilson Powless at ProCyclingStats
- Neilson Powless at Cycling Quotient
- Neilson Powless at CycleBase
- Neilson Powless on Strava