# Magnus Cort

Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Uno-X Mobility.

## Career
### Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17)

In June 2014, World Tour team Orica–GreenEDGE signed Cort for three years, starting from the 2015 season. He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España, where he won stages 18 and 21.

### Astana (2018–19)

Cort rode for Astana in 2018. He was named in the start list for the 2018 Tour de France. On 22 July 2018, Cort won stage 15 of the race after being in a breakaway for most of the day. Cort attacked with 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) to go, and ended up in a breakaway together with Bauke Mollema and Ion Izagirre, where he was the fastest man in the final sprint and won the first Tour de France stage of his career.

### EF Education First (2020-2023)

In August 2019, it was announced that Cort would be joining the EF Pro Cycling team on a two-year contract, from the 2020 season.
During the 2021 Vuelta a España he won three individual stages and was named the most combative rider of the race. He won the intermediate stage 6, where he just edged overall race leader Primož Roglič for the win. On stage 11 he dropped the surviving breakaway riders and was within less than 300 meters from his second stage win, but he was caught by Roglič, Enric Mas and other riders fighting for the general classification. The very next day Cort survived the two climbs and won his second stage of the Vuelta, crediting his team with setting him up perfectly for the sprint finish. On stage 19 Cort once again found himself at the front of the race near the end of the stage. With less than a kilometer to go his teammate Lawson Craddock rode at the front of the group to control the pace and put Cort in position to time his attack perfectly, which he then did defeating Rui Oliveira and Quinn Simmons in the sprint. Craddock came across the line five seconds later with his arms in the air celebrating the victory of his teammate.
At the start of the 2022 Tour de France he took every available mountain point, over the small hills of Denmark, to earn the polka dot jersey early in the race. After the rest day when the race moved to France, he broke the record of the great Federico Bahamontes, for finishing first at the most consecutive mountain checkpoints. On stage 5 the following day he once again joined the breakaway, with teammate Neilson Powless, who had a chance to take the yellow jersey. He fell slightly behind towards the end of the stage but won his second Most Combative Rider award in three stages. He lost the polka dot jersey after stage 9, but on stage 10 he joined the breakaway yet again; and survived to the finish where he won the eighth grand tour stage and second Tour de France stage of his career, in a photo finish. As the third week began he was forced to abandon the race due to a positive COVID test. As a result, this became the first grand tour he ever entered that he did not finish.

## Major results
### Cyclo-cross
#### 2010-2011

    1st National Junior Championships

### Gravel
#### 2023

    6th UCI World Championships

### Road
#### 2011

    1st Road race, National Junior Championships
    1st Overall Course de la Paix Juniors
       1st Stages 3b & 4
    3rd Overall Kroz Istru
    5th Overall Tour de la Région de Lodz
    8th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
    9th Overall Rothaus Regio-Tour International

#### 2012

    2nd Road race, National Under-23 Championships
    3rd Post Cup Odder
    3rd Tønder GP

#### 2013 (2 pro wins)

    Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stage 6
    1st Stage 1 Tour de la Province de Liège
    3rd Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
    3rd Himmerland Rundt
    9th Overall Danmark Rundt
       1st Stages 1 & 4
    10th Hadeland GP

#### 2014 (2)

    1st Overall Ronde de l'Oise
       1st Points classification
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stages 3 & 4
    1st Overall Istrian Spring Trophy
       1st Stages 1 & 2
    1st Himmerland Rundt
    1st Destination Thy
    1st Ringerike GP
    1st Stage 1 Danmark Rundt
    2nd Overall Tour des Fjords
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 3
    5th Volta Limburg Classic
    6th Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop U23

#### 2015

    4th Road race, National Championships
    10th Overall Danmark Rundt
    10th GP Ouest–France

#### 2016 (3)

    Vuelta a España
       1st Stages 18 & 21
    2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
       1st Stage 2
    4th Road race, National Championships
    5th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem
    7th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    9th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

#### 2017 (2)

    1st Clásica de Almería
    1st Stage 3 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
    2nd London–Surrey Classic
    10th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

#### 2018 (4)

    1st Stage 15 Tour de France
    1st Stage 5 BinckBank Tour
    1st Stage 2 Tour de Yorkshire
    1st Stage 4 Tour of Oman
    2nd Overall Dubai Tour
       1st Young rider classification
    8th Milan–San Remo

#### 2019 (1)

    1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice
    1st Mountains classification, Deutschland Tour

#### 2020 (2)

    Étoile de Bessèges
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2
    1st Stage 16 Vuelta a España

#### 2021 (5)

    Vuelta a España
       1st Stages 6, 12 & 19
       Overall Combativity award
    1st Stage 8 Paris–Nice
    1st Stage 4 Route d'Occitanie

#### 2022 (2)

    Tour de France
       1st Stage 10
       Held after Stages 2–8
       Combativity award Stages 3 & 5
    1st Stage 1 O Gran Camiño
    2nd Time trial, National Championships
    5th Overall Danmark Rundt
    6th Maryland Cycling Classic

#### 2023 (3)

    1st Stage 10 Giro d'Italia
    3rd Overall Danmark Rundt
    7th Figueira Champions Classic
    9th Overall Volta ao Algarve
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 2 & 3

#### 2024 (5)

    1st Overall Arctic Race of Norway
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 4
    1st Veneto Classic
    1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné
    2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
       1st Stage 2
    3rd Bretagne Classic
    5th Road race, National Championships
    8th Overall Tour of Norway
    Combativity award Stage 13 Tour de France

#### 2025 (3)

    3rd Overall O Gran Camiño
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1, 2 & 5
    6th Strade Bianche

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | 95 | 62 | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | 68 | 104 | — | 56 | DNF | 96 | 57 |
| Vuelta a España | 133 | 126 | — | — | 67 | 77 | — | — | — |