Magnus Cort Nielsen

Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist who 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. where he won stages 18 and 21.

Astana (2018–19) Cort rode for in 2018. 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 (2020–23) In August 2019, it was announced that Cort would be joining the team on a two-year contract, from the 2020 season. 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.

Uno-X Mobility (2024–present) Cort signed with the Uno-X Pro Cycling Team for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 seasons. On 3 June 2024, he won the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné on the Col de la Loge and took the yellow jersey, which he held for a day. He won the Arctic Race of Norway in August, taking the stage into Bodø and finishing on the podium on two further stages. In October, he won the Veneto Classic alone.

The team raced as Uno-X Mobility from 2025. Cort won the opening stage of O Gran Camiño at Matosinhos on 26 February. He hit an obstacle and ran into another rider inside the final kilometre, then sprinted from out to beat Santiago Mesa and Giovanni Lonardi, and took the leader's jersey with four seconds in hand. He won the second stage at A Estrada the next day, beating Martin Marcellusi and Carlos Canal by several lengths on a rising finish, and extended his lead through the ten-second winner's bonus. He lost the jersey to Derek Gee on the third stage, a time trial at Ourense, finishing 25 seconds down. He won the final stage into Santiago de Compostela from Canal and Lonardi for his third stage win of the race. He finished third overall, 38 seconds behind Gee, and won the points classification. He finished second at Eschborn–Frankfurt, sixth at Milan–San Remo, sixth at Strade Bianche and tenth at the Tour du Doubs.

Uno-X Mobility rode as a UCI WorldTeam from 2026. On 24 March, Cort won the second stage of the Volta a Catalunya on his debut in the race. The stage ran from Figueres to Banyoles. A five-man breakaway led by about three minutes, and the last of its riders, Liam Slock, was caught at the flamme rouge. Cort won the sprint from Noa Isidore and Francesco Busatto. Dorian Godon finished fourth and kept the race lead, level on time with Cort, who was second overall. It was Cort's first win at World Tour level since the 2024 Critérium du Dauphiné and the team's first as a WorldTeam. He finished third on the third stage of the Tour de Suisse in June.

Uno-X Mobility announced on 27 June 2026 that Cort would retire at the end of the season. Cort said that he still felt he was riding at his best, but that he had been in the sport for many years and was beginning to feel ready to stop.

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

2025 (3) 2nd Eschborn–Frankfurt 3rd Overall O Gran Camiño 1st Points classification 1st Stages 1, 2 & 5 6th Milan–San Remo 6th Strade Bianche 10th Tour du Doubs 2026 (2) 1st Road race, National Championships 1st Stage 2 Volta a Catalunya

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Giro d'Italia — — — — — — 95 62 — — Tour de France — — 68 104 — 56 DNF 96 57 130 Vuelta a España 133 126 — — 67 77 — — —

Classics results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish