Julien Vermote (born 26 July 1989) is a Belgian professional cyclist, who currently rides for

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. His brother is Alphonse Vermote, who rode for the squad. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.

Juniors

Born in

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, Belgium, Vermote started racing at a young age and joined the KSV Deerlijk team in 2002 and stayed on that team for the rest of his junior career. He was the national champion in the novice category in 2004. Going through the years, Vermote had results on all levels and his time trialling skills started to develop with multiple wins in the discipline. In his final year in the junior ranks, he won 10 races including Ledegem-Kemmel-Ledegem and a 2nd place in the junior's Ronde van Vlaanderen.

Beveren 2000/Under-23

In his first year in the Under-23 ranks, Vermote came up with a huge win in the time trial in the Le Tryptique des Monts et Chateaux over multiple strong time trialists in

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and

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. In his 2nd year in the Under-23 ranks, Vermote kept pulling very strong results. He shocked the field in the Under-23 Belgian Time Trial Championships with beating defending champion Ghyselinck (who finished in 4th) and won by 23 seconds. He had another strong time trialing result with winning the stage 2 time trial in the Tour du Haut Anjou beating Under-23 stalwarts

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and Marcel Kittel. He hung on for 2nd place overall in the stage race just 4 seconds behind van Garderen. 2010 was a solid year for Vermote though in some peoples eyes, not as strong as his previous U-23 years. He had multiple strong results in big Under-23 races such as the

Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften ( en, Tour of Flanders U23) is a Flanders Classics road bicycle race. It is the version of the Tour of Flanders for under-23 riders and is usually contested a week after the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Ludovic Capelle is t ...

(12th), La Cote de Picardie (4th) and Triptyque des Monts et Chateaux (7th overall) though he had one great win in Brussel-Opwijk, breaking away solo and winning alone. Vermote signed with for one year and a 1-year option in the late summer of 2010.

Private life

Vermote is Roman Catholic and gave testimonial in different Schools, he says the rosary gives him strengths during his career as sportsman. He lives in Stasegem, outside

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Major results

;2006 : 3rd

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, National Junior Road Championships ;2008 : 1st Stage 2 ( ITT)

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;2009 : 1st MaillotBélgica

, National Under-23 Road Championships : 2nd Overall

Tour du Haut-Anjou The Tour du Haut-Anjou was a road bicycle race held annually in France. It was organized as a 2.2U event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of ...

::1st Stage 2 ( ITT) : 8th

Ronde van Vlaanderen U23 Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften ( en, Tour of Flanders U23) is a Flanders Classics road bicycle race. It is the version of the Tour of Flanders for under-23 riders and is usually contested a week after the Ronde van Vlaanderen. Ludovic Capelle L ...

;2010 : 3rd Zellik–Galmaarden : 3rd

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: 4th

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: 6th

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: 7th Overall

;2012 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ;2013 : 1st GP Briek Schotte : 3rd

, National Road Championships : 3rd

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(with

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) ;2014 : 1st Stage 7

Tour of Britain The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time. The event dates back to the first British stage races held just after the S ...

: 3rd

Team time trial,

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: 5th

Omloop van het Houtland Omloop van het Houtland ("Circuit of Houtland") is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Lichtervelde in the region of West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2007, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2002 it was hel ...

: 8th

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;2015 : 8th Overall

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;2016 : 1st Gold medal blank

Team time trial,

: 1st Textielprijs Vichte : 9th Overall

::1st Stage 2 ;2017 : 2nd Gullegem Koerse : 5th Overall

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;2018 : 8th

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: 9th

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;2019 : 10th Paris–Tours

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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