Fabio Jakobsen wins BinckBank Tour opener in close bunch sprint

Quick-Step Floors executed a picture perfect lead out

Fabio Jakobsen takes the win (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

Fabio Jakobson (Quick-Step Floors) won stage one of the 2018 BinckBank Tour in a close bunch sprint finish.

The 21-year old Dutchman sprinted to victory ahead of Marcel Kittel (Katusha-Alpecin) and Caleb Ewan (Mitchelton-Scott) after a typically excellent Quick-Step Floors lead-out.

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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance journalist for Cycling Weekly, who regularly contributes to our World Tour racing coverage with race reports, news stories, interviews and features. Outside of cycling, he also enjoys writing about film and TV - but you won't find much of that content embedded into his CW articles.