Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional
road racing cyclist
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...
, who currently rides for
UCI WorldTeam
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...
.
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
The 2016 Vuelta a España was a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race that took place in Spain between 20 August and 11 September 2016. The race was the 71st edition of the Vuelta a España and the final Grand Tour of the 2016 cycling season.
...
,
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
The 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tours. The -long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 7 July in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, in western France, and concluding on 29 July with the ...
.
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
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Ion Izagirre
Ion Izagirre Insausti (born 4 February 1989) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer and cyclo-cross rider from the Basque Country, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is sometimes referred to as Jon Izagirre, to retain the correct ...
, 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
The 2021 Vuelta a España was a three-week cycling race which took place in Spain between 14 August and 5 September 2021. It was the 76th edition of the Vuelta a España and the third and final grand tour of the 2021 men's road cycling season. T ...
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
Primož Roglič (; born 29 October 1989) is a Slovenian racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He started as a ski jumper and switched to cycling several years after an accident suffered at Planica.
At the 2017 Tour de France, Roglič bec ...
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
Enric Mas Nicolau () (born 7 January 1995) is a Spanish racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a climber, and has finished in top 10 in world tour stage races, and has also won a stage at the Tour of the Basque Country.
Career
Mas wa ...
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
Gregory Lawson Craddock (born February 20, 1992) is an American professional road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is known for his achievement in finishing the 2018 Tour de France despite being seriously injur ...
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
Rui Filipe Alves Oliveira (born 5 September 1996) is a Portuguese cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He competed in the scratch event at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. His twin brother, Ivo Oliveira, is also an in ...
and
Quinn Simmons
Quinn Simmons (born May 8, 2001) is an American road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Simmons' first sport was ski mountaineering, for which he won the bronze medal in the cadet category in the 2017 World Championships. A ...
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
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he took every available mountain point, over the small hills of
Denmark
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, 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
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, 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
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Career
In August 2019, ...
, 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
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he ever entered that he did not finish.
Major results
;2011
: 1st
Road race, National Junior Road Championships
: 1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall Course de la Paix Juniors
::1st Stages 3b & 4
: 3rd Overall Kroz Istru
: 8th Overall
Trofeo Karlsberg
;2012
: 2nd
Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
: 3rd Post Cup Odder
: 3rd Tønder GP
;2013
:
Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
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::1st
![Jersey polkadot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Jersey_polkadot.svg)
Mountains classification
::1st Stage 6
: 1st Stage 1
Tour de la Province de Liège
: 3rd
Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
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: 3rd
Himmerland Rundt
The Himmerland Rundt is a one-day road cycling race held annually in the Danish region of Himmerland. It is organized as a part of the UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introd ...
: 9th Overall
Danmark Rundt
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::1st Stages 1 & 4
: 10th
Hadeland GP
;2014
: 1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Overall
Ronde de l'Oise
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions whi ...
::1st
![Jersey green](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Jersey_green.svg)
Points classification
::1st
![Jersey pink](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Jersey_pink.svg)
Young rider classification
::1st Stages 3 & 4
: 1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Istrian Spring Trophy
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::1st Stages 1 & 2
: 1st
Himmerland Rundt
The Himmerland Rundt is a one-day road cycling race held annually in the Danish region of Himmerland. It is organized as a part of the UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introd ...
: 1st
Destination Thy
The GP Viborg is a cycling race held in Denmark. It is part of UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing
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: 1st
Ringerike GP
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: 1st Stage 1
Danmark Rundt
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: 2nd Overall
Tour des Fjords
Tour des Fjords (known as the Rogaland Grand Prix until 2012) was a road bicycle race held annually between 2008 and 2018 in the region of western Norway. The race merged with the Tour of Norway
The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held an ...
::1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Young rider classification
::1st Stage 3
: 5th
Volta Limburg Classic
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: 6th
Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop U23
;2015
: 4th
Road race, National Road Championships
: 10th Overall
Danmark Rundt
Danmark Rundt is a Danish stage race for professional road bicycle racers organized as a part of the UCI Continental Circuits. It is currently sponsored by the Danish national postal agency, PostNord, and the race is therefore also known as PostN ...
: 10th
GP Ouest–France
;2016
:
Vuelta a España
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::1st Stages 18 & 21
: 2nd Overall
Danmark Rundt
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::1st Stage 2
: 4th
Road race, National Road Championships
: 5th
Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem
The GP Impanis-Van Petegem (also known as the Primus Classic) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually since 1982 in the region of Flemish Brabant, Belgium. The race was originally organized as a tribute to Raymond Impanis in and around Kam ...
: 7th
Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
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The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town o ...
: 9th
Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
The Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli (also known as GP Beghelli) is a late season men's road bicycle race held annually in Monteveglio, near the city of Bologna, Italy. From 2005 to 2013, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe T ...
;2017
: 1st
Clásica de Almería
The Clásica de Almería ( en, Classic of Almería) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in February or March in Almería, Spain, starting and finishing in Almería itself. Established in 1986, the race was run as an amateur event in i ...
: 1st Stage 3
Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; en, Tour of the Valencian Community or Tour of Valencia) is a road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calendar means it is often ...
: 2nd
London–Surrey Classic
The London–Surrey Classic (also known as the RideLondon–Surrey Classic) was an annual men's professional one-day road cycling race, starting and finishing in London and routed via the picturesque Surrey Hills. The first race of its kind wa ...
: 10th
Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
The Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli (also known as GP Beghelli) is a late season men's road bicycle race held annually in Monteveglio, near the city of Bologna, Italy. From 2005 to 2013, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe T ...
;2018
: 1st Stage 15
Tour de France
The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...
: 1st Stage 5
BinckBank Tour
The Benelux Tour (previously known as the Eneco Tour and the BinckBank Tour) is a road bicycle racing stage-race that is part of the UCI World Tour. The race was established in 2005 and was originally known as the Eneco Tour, named after the ori ...
: 1st Stage 2
Tour de Yorkshire
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...
: 1st Stage 4
Tour of Oman
The Tour of Oman is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Oman since 2010 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It was scheduled to become part of the new UCI ProSeries in 2020, but both the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled d ...
: 2nd Overall
Dubai Tour
The Dubai Tour is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Dubai, which began in 2014 as part of the UCI Asia Tour.
History
The race was classified as a 2.1. in 2014. The race is organized by the Dubai Sports Council in partn ...
::1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Young rider classification
: 8th
Milan–San Remo
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;2019
: 1st
![Jersey blue](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Jersey_blue.svg)
Mountains classification,
Deutschland Tour
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: 1st Stage 4
Paris–Nice
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;2020
:
Étoile de Bessèges
The Étoile de Bessèges () is an early-season five-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a sta ...
::1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Points classification
::1st Stage 2
: 1st Stage 16
Vuelta a España
The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the r ...
;2021
:
Vuelta a España
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::1st Stages 6, 12 & 19
::
![Jersey yellow number](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Jersey_yellow_number.svg)
Overall Combativity award
: 1st Stage 8
Paris–Nice
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: 1st Stage 4
Route d'Occitanie
The Route d'Occitanie is a road bicycle race with 4 stages held annually in Southern France. It was first held in 1977 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually held a week before the Tour de France ...
;2022
:
Tour de France
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::1st Stage 10
::Held
![Jersey polkadot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Jersey_polkadot.svg)
after Stages 2–8
::
Combativity award
The combativity award is a prize given in road bicycle racing
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Stages 3 & 5
: 1st Stage 1
O Gran Camiño
: 2nd
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, National Road Championships
: 5th Overall
Danmark Rundt
Danmark Rundt is a Danish stage race for professional road bicycle racers organized as a part of the UCI Continental Circuits. It is currently sponsored by the Danish national postal agency, PostNord, and the race is therefore also known as PostN ...
: 6th
UCI World Gravel Championships
: 6th
Maryland Cycling Classic
The Maryland Cycling Classic is a one-day road cycling race in the state of Maryland. The inaugural race was September 4, 2022. The category 1.Pro race is a part of the UCI America Tour and the UCI ProSeries calendars.
History
The race was ori ...
: 10th
Coppa Bernocchi
The Coppa Bernocchi is a European bicycle race held in Legnano, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.
In 1919 the business magnate Antonio Bernocchi founded the Coppa Bernocchi (or Bernocchi Cup) ...
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
References
External links
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CQ Ranking Profile*
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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
Sportspeople from the Capital Region of Denmark
20th-century Danish people
21st-century Danish people