# Fabio Jakobsen

Fabio Jakobsen (born 31 August 1996) is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team DSM–Firmenich PostNL.

## Career
### 2019–2020

During the 2019 Vuelta a España Jakobsen won two stages, including the final stage of the race on stage 21 in Madrid.
A few metres before the finish of the 1st stage in the 2020 Tour de Pologne he heavily crashed after Dylan Groenewegen deviated from his line, forcing Jakobsen into the barriers. The race doctor initially reported that Jakobsen had suffered several major injuries, including serious brain trauma and damage to the upper respiratory tract, a broken palate, and heavy blood loss, and was in life-threatening condition. On 7 August 2020, the race organisers announced that Jakobsen was out of the induced coma and in "good condition". On 18 August 2020, Jakobsen said that he was "glad to be alive" following the crash. Groenewegen received a nine-month suspension.

### 2021–present

Jakobsen returned to professional racing at the Presidential Tour of Turkey on 11 April 2021, eight months after the crash.
Jakobsen raced the 2021 Vuelta a España, where he improved on his 2019 result by winning three stages on this occasion: stages four, eight and sixteen. The early part of the race saw him battle with Jasper Philipsen for the green Points Classification jersey. Philipsen abandoned the race after stage 10 due to illness, which left Magnus Cort and overall GC contender Primož Roglič as Jakobsen's closest points rivals. However, stage 16 proved to be decisive, when Jakobsen won the sprint finish on his 25th birthday. Although he was unable to increase his points total following this stage victory, he remained the overall leader in the points competition until the completion of the race, earning him his first Grand Tour jersey.
At the end of the 2021 season, Jakobsen was nominated for Comeback Rider of the Year award on CyclingnewsForum. Jakobsen won the award, gaining the majority of the votes over the other nine riders.
In 2022 he won Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, a stage in Paris-Nice and the Tour of Belgium. He also won the points classification as well as multiple stages in Volta ao Algarve, the Tour of Hungary and Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. In the 2022 Tour de France, which was his first entry in the Tour, he won the sprint finish on stage 2. On stage 17, which was a major mountain stage with a summit finish in Peyragudes, Jakobsen's entire team returned to the finish line to cheer when they realized he was going to make it inside the time cut. He was the final surviving rider to cross the finish line, and then collapsed up against the barriers with the Broom wagon driving across the line fifteen seconds later. He survived the next day in the high mountains and the rest of the race, however a mechanical problem on the last hundred meters of the Champs-Élysées stage didn't allow him to compete in the sprint. His overall result were still positive, making his first Tour de France a successful one.

## Major results
### 2014

    4th Overall Driedaagse van Axel

### 2015

    2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

### 2016

    1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
    1st Slag om Norg
    1st Stage 2 ZLM Tour

### 2017

    1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
    1st Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23
    1st Craft Ster van Zwolle
    1st Ronde van Noord-Holland
    Olympia's Tour
       1st Stages 3 & 4
    1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Avenir
    1st Stage 2 Tour de Normandie
    1st Stage 4 Tour Alsace
    2nd Dorpenomloop Rucphen
    4th Arno Wallaard Memorial
    5th Slag om Norg
    6th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
    8th Zuid Oost Drenthe Classic

### 2018 (7 pro wins)

    1st Scheldeprijs
    1st Nokere Koerse
    Tour of Guangxi
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 3 & 6
    1st Stage 1 BinckBank Tour
    1st Stage 1 Tour des Fjords
    1st Stage 4 Okolo Slovenska
    2nd Halle–Ingooigem
    4th Dwars door West–Vlaanderen
    6th Great War Remembrance Race
    10th Bretagne Classic

### 2019 (7)

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    1st Scheldeprijs
    Vuelta a España
       1st Stages 4 & 21
    1st Stage 1 Volta ao Algarve
    1st Stage 3 Tour of Turkey
    1st Stage 4 Tour of California
    2nd Elfstedenronde

### 2020 (4)

    1st Grote Prijs Jean-Pierre Monseré
    Volta ao Algarve
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 1
    1st Stage 1 Tour de Pologne
    1st Stage 5 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
    4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

### 2021 (7)

    1st Eurométropole Tour
    1st Gooikse Pijl
    Vuelta a España
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 4, 8 & 16
    Tour de Wallonie
       1st Stages 2 & 5

### 2022 (13)

    1st Road race, UEC European Road Championships
    1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    1st Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
    1st Elfstedenronde
    Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 2 & 5
    Volta ao Algarve
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1 & 3
    Tour de Hongrie
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2 & 3
    1st Stage 2 Tour de France
    1st Stage 2 Paris–Nice
    1st Stage 5 Tour of Belgium
    6th Münsterland Giro

### 2023 (7)

    Tour of Belgium
       1st Stages 2 & 5
    Danmark Rundt
       1st Stages 2 & 4
    1st Stage 2 Tirreno–Adriatico
    1st Stage 2 Tour de Hongrie
    1st Stage 2 Vuelta a San Juan
    3rd Elfstedenronde
    3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    5th Classic Brugge–De Panne
    6th Gooikse Pijl
    9th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

### 2024 (1)

    1st Stage 1 Tour of Turkey
    2nd Nokere Koerse

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | DNF |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | 129 | DNF | DNF |
| Vuelta a España | 145 | — | 141 | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |