Magnus Cort

Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17)
In June 2014, World Tour team 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 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 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-present)
In August 2019, it was announced that Cort would be joining the 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 Mountains classification, Deutschland Tour
1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice
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
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
References
External links
CQ Ranking Profile
1993 births
Living people
People from Bornholm
Danish male cyclists
Cyclists at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
Danish Tour de France stage winners
Danish Vuelta a España stage winners
Danish Giro d'Italia stage winners
Cyclists from the Capital Region of Denmark
21st-century Danish people