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.[8]
Cort at the 2023 Danmark Rundt | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Magnus Cort Nielsen |
| Nickname | Kong Cort, ConCorten |
| Born | 16 January 1993 Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1] |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10 st 10 lb)[1] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Uno-X Mobility |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Puncheur |
| Professional teams | |
| 2012 | Forsikring–Himmerland |
| 2013–2014 | Team Cult Energy[2] |
| 2014 | Orica–GreenEDGE (stagiaire) |
| 2015–2017 | Orica–GreenEDGE[3] |
| 2018–2019 | Astana[4][5] |
| 2020–2023 | EF Pro Cycling[6][7] |
| 2024– | Uno-X Mobility |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
| |
Career edit
Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17) edit
In June 2014, World Tour team Orica–GreenEDGE signed Cort for three years, starting from the 2015 season.[3] He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España,[9] where he won stages 18[10] and 21.[11]
Astana (2018–19) edit
Cort rode for Astana in 2018.[4] He was named in the start list for the 2018 Tour de France.[12] 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.[13]
EF Education First (2020-2023) edit
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.[6]
During the 2021 Vuelta a España he won three individual stages and was named the most combative rider of the race.[14] 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.[15] 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.[16] 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.[17] 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.[18] As the third week began he was forced to abandon the race due to a positive COVID test.[19] As a result, this became the first grand tour he ever entered that he did not finish.
Major results edit
Cyclo-cross edit
- 2010-2011
- 1st National Junior Championships
Gravel edit
- 2023
- 6th UCI World Championships
Road edit
- 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 edit
| Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | 95 | 62 |
| Tour de France | — | — | 68 | 104 | — | 56 | DNF | 96 |
| Vuelta a España | 133 | 126 | — | — | 67 | 77 | — | — |
References edit
- ^ a b "Astana - Pro Team". Retrieved 9 July 2019.
- ^ "Magnus Cort Nielsen". Cycling Archives. Cycling Archives. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ^ a b "Orica-GreenEdge signs neo-pro Cort for three years". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 18 June 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ^ a b "Cort signs two-year deal with Astana". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
- ^ "Astana Pro Team presented renewed roster for 2019". Astana. Apgrade. 16 December 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ a b "Cort Nielsen signs with EF Education First". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 26 August 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "EF Education - Nippo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Uno-X Mobility". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
- ^ "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- ^ "Vuelta a Espana: Cort Nielsen wins stage 18". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
- ^ "2018: 105th Tour de France: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ^ https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-2018/stage-15/results/
- ^ "2021: Cort kåret til den mest angrebsivrige rytter i Vueltaen". Feltet.dk. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ^ "Magnus Cort Reigns Supreme in Vuelta Sprint..." The Guardian by Associated Press. 26 August 2021.
- ^ Giuliani, Simone (2 July 2022). "Cort propelled toward polka dots as home Tour de France crowds scream his name". Cycling News. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ Weislo, Laura (5 July 2022). "Cort breaks Tour de France consecutive mountain win record". Cycling News. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ Lowe, Felix (12 July 2022). "TOUR DE FRANCE 2022 – MAGNUS CORT SNEAKS STAGE 10 WIN IN ALPS AS LENNARD KAMNA JUMPS TO SECOND IN GC". Eurosport. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ Staff Writer (17 July 2022). "Cort Nielsen and Clarke out of Tour de France with COVID-19". Reuters. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
External links edit
- Magnus Cort at ProCyclingStats
- CQ Ranking Profile
- Magnus Cort at Cycling Archives