Magnus Cort

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Magnus Cort Nielsen
2018 Tour de Yorkshire - Magnus Cort (overall).jpg
Cort at the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire
Personal information
Full nameMagnus Cort Nielsen
NicknameKong Cort, ConCorten
Born (1993-01-16) 16 January 1993 (age 29)
Bornholm, Denmark
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Weight68 kg (150 lb; 10 st 10 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamEF Education–EasyPost
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typePuncheur
Classics specialist
Sprinter
Professional teams
2012Forsikring–Himmerland
2013–2014Team Cult Energy[2]
2014Orica–GreenEDGE (stagiaire)
2015–2017Orica–GreenEDGE[3]
2018–2019Astana[4][5]
2020–EF Pro Cycling[6]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2018)
Vuelta a España
6 individual stages (2016, 2020, 2021)
Combativity award (2021)

One-day races and Classics

Clásica de Almería (2017)

Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost.[7]

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.[3] He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España,[8] where he won stages 18[9] and 21.[10]

Astana (2018–19)[]

It was confirmed that he was going to be riding for Astana in 2018.[4] In July 2018, he was named in the start list for the 2018 Tour de France.[11] 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.[12]

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.[6]

During the 2021 Vuelta a España he won three individual stages and was named the most combative rider of the race.[13] 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.[14] 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[]

2011
1st MaillotDinamarca.svg Road race, National Junior Road Championships
1st 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
1st Jersey polkadot.svg 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
1st Jersey white.svg Overall Ronde de l'Oise
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Jersey pink.svg Young rider classification
1st Stages 3 & 4
1st Jersey yellow.svg 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 Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 3
5th Volta Limburg Classic
6th Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop U23
2015
4th Road race, National Road Championships
10th Overall Danmark Rundt
10th GP Ouest–France
2016
Vuelta a España
1st Stages 18 & 21
2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
1st Stage 2
4th Road race, National Road Championships
5th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem
7th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
9th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
2017
1st Clásica de Almería
1st Stage 3 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
2nd London–Surrey Classic
10th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
2018
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 Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
8th Milan–San Remo
2019
1st Jersey blue.svg Mountains classification Deutschland Tour
1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice
2020
Étoile de Bessèges
1st Jersey yellow.svg Points classification
1st Stage 2
1st Stage 16 Vuelta a España
2021
Vuelta a España
1st Stages 6, 12 & 19
Jersey yellow number.svg Overall Combativity award
1st Stage 8 Paris–Nice
1st Stage 4 Route d'Occitanie

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — — — — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — 68 104 — 56
A red jersey Vuelta a España 133 126 — — 67 77

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Astana - Pro Team". Retrieved 9 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Magnus Cort Nielsen". Cycling Archives. Cycling Archives. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Orica-GreenEdge signs neo-pro Cort for three years". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 18 June 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Cort signs two-year deal with Astana". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 7 August 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Astana Pro Team presented renewed roster for 2019". Astana. Apgrade. 16 December 2018. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Cort Nielsen signs with EF Education First". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 26 August 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  7. ^ "EF Education - Nippo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  8. ^ "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  9. ^ "Vuelta a Espana: Cort Nielsen wins stage 18". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  10. ^ "Vuelta a Espana 2016: Stage 21 Results | Cyclingnews.com". Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  11. ^ "2018: 105th Tour de France: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
  12. ^ https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-2018/stage-15/results/
  13. ^ "2021: Cort kåret til den mest angrebsivrige rytter i Vueltaen". Feltet.dk. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  14. ^ "Magnus Cort Reigns Supreme in Vuelta Sprint..." The Guardian by Associated Press. 26 August 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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