2011 Quick-Step season
Date Race Competition Rider Country Location
February 7 Tour of Qatar , Stage 1 UCI Asia Tour Tom Boonen ( BEL ) Qatar Al Khor Corniche
February 11 Tour of Qatar , Young rider classification UCI Asia Tour Nikolas Maes ( BEL ) Qatar
March 15 Tirreno-Adriatico , Mountains classification UCI World Tour Davide Malacarne ( ITA ) Italy
March 16 Nokere Koerse UCI Europe Tour Gert Steegmans ( BEL ) Belgium Nokere
March 27 Gent-Wevelgem UCI World Tour Tom Boonen ( BEL ) Belgium Wevelgem
May 29 Giro d'Italia , Fair Play Teams classification UCI World Tour Italy
September 4 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens UCI Europe Tour Jérôme Pineau ( FRA ) Belgium Leuven
September 21 Omloop van het Houtland UCI Europe Tour Guillaume Van Keirsbulck ( BEL ) Belgium Lichtervelde
Season victories
The 2011 season for began in January at the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour. With just five victories, the season was easily the worst in Quick Step's history. They were all but invisible at the Grand Tours other than a brief run in the leader's jersey for Sylvain Chavanel at the Vuelta a España. The same, bar Tom Boonen's Gent-Wevelgem win, was true of the classic cycle races. They were the last eligible team to score any points toward the UCI World Tour rankings, and finished third-from-last in those rankings, better only than and . During the season, the team announced that Omega Pharma would be rejoining them as a title sponsor for the 2012 season, as .