Julien Vermote
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Julien Vermote is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province West Flanders...
, Belgium
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) is a Belgian professional cyclist for . He currently lives in Stasegem, outside of Harelbeke
Harelbeke
Harelbeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Harelbeke proper and the towns of Bavikhove and Hulste. On January 1, 2006 Harelbeke had a total population of 26,172...
. His brother is Alphonse Vermote, a top U-23 cyclist in Belgium.
Juniors
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/U-23
In his first year in the U-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 Jan BakelantsJan Bakelants
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and Jan Ghyselinck
Jan Ghyselinck
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.
In his 2nd year in the U23 ranks, Vermote kept pulling very strong results. He shocked the field in the U-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 U-23 stalwarts Tejay Van Garderen
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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 U-23 races such as the U-23 Ronde van Vlaanderen (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 Quick Step for one year + a 1 year option in the late summer of 2010.