Jakob Fuglsang

Jakob Fuglsang

Fuglsang at the 2015 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Jakob Diemer Fuglsang
Born	(1985-03-22) 22 March 1985 Silkeborg, Denmark
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight	68 kg (150 lb; 11 st)[1]
Team information
Current team	Astana
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2006–2008	Cannondale-Vredestein MTB
2006–2008	Team Designa Køkken
2009–2010	Team Saxo Bank
2011–2012	Leopard Trek
2013–	Astana
Major wins
Grand Tours Vuelta a España 2 TTT stages (2011, 2013) Stage races Danmark Rundt (2008, 2009, 2010) Tour de Luxembourg (2012) Tour of Austria (2012) One-day races and Classics National Time Trial Championships (2010, 2012)
Medal record Representing  Denmark Road bicycle racing Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Men's road race
Infobox last updated on 6 August 2016

Jakob Diemer Fuglsang (born 22 March 1985) is a Danish professional racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam Astana.^[2] Before turning professional for Team Saxo Bank, he was a mountain biker racing for Team Cannondale-Vredestein. He has won the U23 World Cup. He got his contract with Team Saxo Bank during the 2008 Danmark Rundt.

Career

Fuglsang won the Danmark Rundt three years in a row (2008, 2009, and 2010). He also won the Tour of Slovenia in 2009. In 2007 Fuglsang competed in the Absa Cape Epic with team mate Roal Paulissen, placing 2nd overall. He then came back to compete in the marathon stage race with Paulissen again in 2008, this time claiming the overall win. In 2010, he finished third in the Tour de Suisse and won the Denmark National Time Trial Championships which he later won it again in 2012. In 2011, he finished 4th in the Tour de Suisse and 11th in the Vuelta a España.

In 2012, Fuglsang followed the Schleck brothers to RadioShack–Nissan. He was slated to be his team's leader in the Giro d'Italia, but had to withdraw due to knee problems and was replaced with Fränk Schleck.^[3] Fuglsang later won the Tour de Luxembourg, taking the overall classification jersey in the queen stage to Differdange and then defending his lead with the help of his team for the fourth and final stage in Luxembourg City. The last stage had to be shortened by 47 km (29 mi) by the organizers due to heavy rain.^[4] He was then excluded from the Tour de France by the RadioShack–Nissan team management after he criticized them. He stated that he wanted to race for another squad in the next season since he was not happy with the way things were going within the team.^[5] Instead of competing in France, he went on to win the Tour of Austria Overall Classification and the fourth stage of the race. His lead over the second placed rider Steve Morabito of BMC Racing Team was a minute and 24 seconds when the Tour concluded.^[6]

Fuglsang left RadioShack–Nissan at the end of the 2012 season, and joined Astana on a three-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.^[2] In the 2013 Tour de France, Fuglsang became the team leader of Astana after the abandonment of Janez Brajkovic. He ended up finishing 7th overall, after a good performance in the mountains and the time trials.

In 2015, Fuglsang cracked the top ten in two of the three Ardennes Classics, finishing eighth at La Flèche Wallonne^[7] and ninth at Liège–Bastogne–Liège.^[8]

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Fuglsang won the silver medal in the road race after a three-man sprint with winner Greg Van Avermaet and bronze medalist Rafał Majka.^[9]

Career achievements

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	12
Tour	–	50	49	–	7	36	23	52
Vuelta	56	–	11	–	29	–	–	–

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

Other major stage races

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jakob Fuglsang.

• Jakob Fuglsang profile at Cycling Archives
• Official website
• Palmares on CyclingBase (French)
• ProCyclingStats: Jakob Fuglsang