Danish road bicycle racer

Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost.

Contents

• 1 Career
  • 1.1 Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17)
  • 1.2 Astana (2018–19)
  • 1.3 EF Education First (2020-present)
• 2 Major results
  • 2.1 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17)

In June 2014, World Tour team Orica–GreenEDGE announced that they had 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)

It was confirmed that he was going to be riding for Astana in 2018. In July 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-present)

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 cl*ification. 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.

Major results

20111st Road race, National Junior Road Championships1st Overall Course de la Paix Juniors1st Stages 3b & 43rd Overall Kroz Istru8th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg20122nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships3rd Post Cup Odder3rd Tønder GP2013Thüringen Rundfahrt der U231st Mountains cl*ification1st Stage 61st Stage 1 Tour de la Province de Liège3rd Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften3rd Himmerland Rundt9th Overall Danmark Rundt1st Stages 1 & 410th Hadeland GP20141st Overall Ronde de l'Oise1st Points cl*ification1st Young rider cl*ification1st Stages 3 & 41st Overall Istrian Spring Trophy1st Stages 1 & 21st Himmerland Rundt1st Destination Thy1st Ringerike GP1st Stage 1 Danmark Rundt2nd Overall Tour des Fjords1st Young rider cl*ification1st Stage 35th Volta Limburg Cl*ic6th Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop U2320154th Road race, National Road Championships10th Overall Danmark Rundt10th GP Ouest–France2016Vuelta a España1st Stages 18 & 212nd Overall Danmark Rundt1st Stage 24th Road race, National Road Championships5th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem7th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton9th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli20171st Clásica de Almería1st Stage 3 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana2nd London–Surrey Cl*ic10th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli20181st Stage 15 Tour de France1st Stage 5 BinckBank Tour1st Stage 2 Tour de Yorkshire1st Stage 4 Tour of Oman2nd Overall Dubai Tour1st Young rider cl*ification8th Milan–San Remo20191st Mountains cl*ification Deutschland Tour1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice2020Étoile de Bessèges1st Points cl*ification1st Stage 21st Stage 16 Vuelta a España2021Vuelta a España1st Stages 6, 12 & 19 Overall Combativity award1st Stage 8 Paris–Nice1st Stage 4 Route d'Occitanie20221st Stage 1 O Gran Camiño

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

References

External links

• Magnus Cort at ProCyclingStats
• CQ Ranking Profile
• Magnus Cort at Cycling Archives