The Wolfpack leaves the race with four wins, for a total of nine Grand Tour stage victories this season.

Deceuninck – Quick-Step wrote history again, this time by becoming the first team ever to win the points classification at the Tour de France and Vuelta a España in the same season with two different riders. After Mark Cavendish captured the green jersey in July on the iconic Champs-Élysées, Fabio Jakobsen did the same a couple of weeks later at the last Grand Tour of the season, in Santiago de Compostela, at the 76th edition of La Vuelta.

The Dutchman made one of the most amazing and memorable comebacks in the history of the sport, just one year after the Tour de Pologne crash which marked the road of a long and arduous recovery, that in the words of Fabio, concluded with his victory in Molina de Aragon. Two more successes followed shortly after, in La Manga del Mar Menor and Santa Cruz de Bezana, the latter coming on his birthday and giving the 25-year-old enough of a buffer in the points classification ahead of the race’s final week.

From there on it was all about surviving the brutal mountains, which Fabio did thanks to an incredible team effort, with all his seven Deceuninck – Quick-Step teammates constantly shepherding and bringing him home safely, a laborious and fully committed effort for which he was full of praise in Santiago de Compostela, where he took to the podium after the final individual time trial to receive the points classification jersey, a first for a Dutchman at La Vuelta in 10 years.

“To finish here in Santiago de Compostela is my biggest victory. Who would have thought about this one year ago? As I came closer to the finish, I was waving to the fans who were shouting my name, seeing them do this was really beautiful. A hat-trick of stages and the green jersey is something I would have never dreamed of three weeks ago. This achievement was possible with the help of my teammates.”

“They were with me everywhere – on the climbs, on the descents, in the valley – they rode themselves inside out for me and I’m incredibly grateful to them. This jersey represents the Wolfpack, everything what this stands for and our strong connection. I want to say a big thank you to everybody involved: the guys, the staff, the sponsors. It’s a fairy tale!”, said Fabio, one of Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s two riders to win a stage at the last Grand Tour of the season, alongside Florian Sénéchal.

 

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Race details

1 Primož Roglič
Team Jumbo-Visma
44:02
2 Magnus Cort Nielsen
EF Education - Nippo
0:14
3 Thymen Arensman
Team DSM
0:52
4 Josef Černý
Deceuninck - Quick Step
1:16
5 Chad Haga
Team DSM
1:43
6 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
1:49
7 Felix Großschartner
BORA - hansgrohe
1:52
8 Steven Kruijswijk
Team Jumbo-Visma
1:52
9 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
2:04
10 Ion Izagirre Insausti
Astana - Premier Tech
2:06
61 Andrea Bagioli
Deceuninck - Quick Step
4:39
68 Zdeněk Štybar
Deceuninck - Quick Step
4:47
71 Florian Sénéchal
Deceuninck - Quick Step
4:55
89 Mauri Vansevenant
Deceuninck - Quick Step
5:40
99 James Knox
Deceuninck - Quick Step
5:57
106 Bert Van Lerberghe
Deceuninck - Quick Step
6:15
139 Fabio Jakobsen
Deceuninck - Quick Step
8:30
1 Primož Roglič
Team Jumbo-Visma
83:55:29
2 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
4:42
3 Jack Haig
Bahrain - Victorious
7:40
4 Adam Yates
INEOS Grenadiers
9:06
5 Gino Mäder
Bahrain - Victorious
11:33
6 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
13:27
7 David de la Cruz Melgarejo
UAE Team Emirates
18:33
8 Sepp Kuss
Team Jumbo-Visma
18:55
9 Guillaume Martin Guyonnet
Cofidis
20:27
10 Felix Großschartner
BORA - hansgrohe
22:22
90 Andrea Bagioli
Deceuninck - Quick Step
3:58:45
100 James Knox
Deceuninck - Quick Step
4:20:47
101 Mauri Vansevenant
Deceuninck - Quick Step
4:21:19
118 Florian Sénéchal
Deceuninck - Quick Step
4:48:14
132 Zdeněk Štybar
Deceuninck - Quick Step
5:34:14
136 Bert Van Lerberghe
Deceuninck - Quick Step
5:48:13
140 Fabio Jakobsen
Deceuninck - Quick Step
6:01:24
141 Josef Černý
Deceuninck - Quick Step
6:03:50
1 Fabio Jakobsen
Deceuninck - Quick Step
250 pt
2 Primož Roglič
Team Jumbo-Visma
199 pt
3 Magnus Cort Nielsen
EF Education - Nippo
161 pt
4 Matteo Trentin
UAE Team Emirates
145 pt
5 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
120 pt
6 Alberto Dainese
Team DSM
120 pt
7 Michael Matthews
Team BikeExchange
114 pt
8 Andrea Bagioli
Deceuninck - Quick Step
101 pt
9 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
96 pt
10 Arnaud Démare
Groupama - FDJ
91 pt
45 Bert Van Lerberghe
Deceuninck - Quick Step
33 pt
50 Mauri Vansevenant
Deceuninck - Quick Step
25 pt
53 Josef Černý
Deceuninck - Quick Step
24 pt
63 Florian Sénéchal
Deceuninck - Quick Step
19 pt
1 Michael Storer
Team DSM
80 pt
2 Romain Bardet
Team DSM
61 pt
3 Primož Roglič
Team Jumbo-Visma
51 pt
4 Damiano Caruso
Bahrain - Victorious
33 pt
5 Rafał Majka
UAE Team Emirates
33 pt
6 Jack Haig
Bahrain - Victorious
23 pt
7 Sepp Kuss
Team Jumbo-Visma
19 pt
8 Enric Mas Nicolau
Movistar Team
17 pt
9 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
16 pt
10 Fabio Aru
Team Qhubeka NextHash
16 pt
31 Andrea Bagioli
Deceuninck - Quick Step
5 pt
57 Bert Van Lerberghe
Deceuninck - Quick Step
-2 pt
1 Gino Mäder
Bahrain - Victorious
84:07:02
2 Egan Bernal Gómez
INEOS Grenadiers
1:54
3 Juan Pedro López Pérez
Trek - Segafredo
19:48
4 Rémy Rochas
Cofidis
40:59
5 Clément Champoussin
AG2R Citroën Team
45:56
6 Steff Cras
Lotto Soudal
1:10:33
7 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda Hernandez
Caja Rural - Seguros RGA
1:47:21
8 Pavel Sivakov
INEOS Grenadiers
1:53:14
9 Gotzon Martín Sanz
Euskaltel - Euskadi
1:59:06
10 Michael Storer
Team DSM
2:11:12
26 Andrea Bagioli
Deceuninck - Quick Step
3:47:12
29 Mauri Vansevenant
Deceuninck - Quick Step
4:09:46
42 Fabio Jakobsen
Deceuninck - Quick Step
5:42:03
1 Bahrain - Victorious 252:19:35
2 Team Jumbo-Visma 7:26
3 INEOS Grenadiers 32:18
4 UAE Team Emirates 1:05:10
5 Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux 1:15:05
6 Movistar Team 1:17:16
7 AG2R Citroën Team 1:43:04
8 Cofidis 2:15:39
9 Trek - Segafredo 2:38:20
10 Team DSM 2:59:49

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