Magnus Cort Explained

Magnus Cort Nielsen
Fullname:Magnus Cort Nielsen
Nickname:Kong Cort, ConCorten
Birth Date:1993 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Rønne, Bornholm, Denmark
Height:[1]
Weight:680NaN0
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Ridertype:Puncheur
Majorwins:Grand Tours

Tour de France

2 individual stages (2018, 2022)

Giro d'Italia

1 individual stage (2023)

Vuelta a España

6 individual stages (2016, 2020, 2021)

Combativity award (2021)Stage races

Arctic Race of Norway (2024)One-day races and Classics

Clásica de Almería (2017)

Proyears1:2012
Proyears2:2013–2014
Proteam2:[2]
Proyears3:2014
Proteam3: (stagiaire)
Proyears4:2015–2017
Proteam4:[3]
Proyears5:2018–2019
Proteam5:[4] [5]
Proyears6:2020–2023
Proteam6:[6] [7]
Proyears7:2024–

Magnus Cort Nielsen (born 16 January 1993) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam .[8]

Career

Orica–GreenEDGE (2015–17)

In June 2014, World Tour team 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)

Cort rode for 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 8km (05miles) 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)

In August 2019, it was announced that Cort would be joining the 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

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 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
    2024 (4)
  • 1st Overall Arctic Race of Norway
  • 1st Points classification
  • 1st Stage 4
  • 1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné
  • 2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
  • 1st Stage 2
  • 5th Road race, National Championships
  • 8th Overall Tour of Norway
  • Combativity award Stage 13 Tour de France

    Grand Tour general classification results timeline

    Grand Tour201620172018201920202021202220232024
    Giro d'Italia9562
    Tour de France6810456DNF9657
    Vuelta a España1331266777

    External links

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Astana - Pro Team. 9 July 2019.
    2. News: Magnus Cort Nielsen. Cycling Archives. Cycling Archives. 10 August 2013.
    3. News: Orica-GreenEdge signs neo-pro Cort for three years. Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 18 June 2014. 11 February 2015.
    4. News: Cort signs two-year deal with Astana. Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 7 August 2017. 1 January 2018.
    5. News: Astana Pro Team presented renewed roster for 2019. . Apgrade. 16 December 2018. 1 January 2019.
    6. News: Cort Nielsen signs with EF Education First. Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 26 August 2019. 11 December 2019.
    7. Web site: EF Education - Nippo. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 1 January 2021. https://archive.today/20210101135037/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15238/1000987/279. 1 January 2021.
    8. Web site: Uno-X Mobility. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 14 January 2024.
    9. Web site: 71st Vuelta a España . 20 August 2016 . ProCyclingStats.
    10. News: Vuelta a Espana: Cort Nielsen wins stage 18. Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 8 September 2016. 8 September 2016.
    11. Web site: Vuelta a Espana 2016: Stage 21 Results Cyclingnews.com . 11 September 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150917115331/http://www.cyclingnews.com/vuelta-a-espana/stage-21/results/ . 17 September 2015 .
    12. Web site: 2018: 105th Tour de France: Start List . 5 July 2017 . Pro Cycling Stats.
    13. https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-2018/stage-15/results/ https://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-2018/stage-15/results/
    14. Web site: 2021: Cort kåret til den mest angrebsivrige rytter i Vueltaen . 6 September 2021 . Feltet.dk.
    15. Web site: Magnus Cort Reigns Supreme in Vuelta Sprint.... The Guardian by Associated Press. 26 August 2021.
    16. Web site: Cort propelled toward polka dots as home Tour de France crowds scream his name. Simone. Giuliani. Cycling News. 2 July 2022. 3 July 2022.
    17. Web site: Cort breaks Tour de France consecutive mountain win record. Laura. Weislo. Cycling News. 5 July 2022. 6 July 2022.
    18. Web site: TOUR DE FRANCE 2022 – MAGNUS CORT SNEAKS STAGE 10 WIN IN ALPS AS LENNARD KAMNA JUMPS TO SECOND IN GC. Felix. Lowe. Eurosport. 12 July 2022. 14 July 2022.
    19. Web site: Cort Nielsen and Clarke out of Tour de France with COVID-19. Staff Writer. Reuters. 17 July 2022. 17 July 2022.