# Justin Jules

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

## 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 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, 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. 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.

## 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 Points classification
       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
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 1