Magnus Cort Nielsen

Magnus Cort Nielsen
	Magnus Cort Nielsen (2014)
To person
Date of birth	January 16, 1993
nation	Denmark
discipline	Road / cross-country
Driver type	sprinter
To the team
Current team	EF Pro Cycling
function	driver
Most important successes
	Vuelta a España 2016 - two stages Tour de France 2018 - one stage
	Last updated: July 22, 2018

Magnus Cort Nielsen (born January 16, 1993 on Bornholm ) is a Danish cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2011, Cort Nielsen was third in the overall ranking of the junior event of the International Peace Ride and won the Danish championship title in the junior class in both cyclocross and road racing . The following year he started for the Concordia Forsikring-Himmerland team and finished eighth in the Danish road championship in the elite class. In 2013 he switched to Team Cult Energy and was successful on one stage of the International Tour of Thuringia ; In addition, he achieved - in addition to two stage successes in the race - 9th place in the overall ranking of Post Danmark Rundt . In the 2014 season he was successful at the Istrian Spring Trophy and the Norwegian Ringerike Grand Prix, and also won two Danish races on the UCI Europe Tour with Himmerland Rundt and Destination Thy .

2016 was a successful year for Cort Nielsen: He initially won two stages of the Tour of Denmark . In autumn of that year he won both the 18th and the 21st and final stage of the Vuelta a España . The following year he won a stage of the Tour of Valencia as well as the Clásica de Almería . Then he got an offer from Team Astana . During a first training session with his new team, he broke his collarbone ; he had already suffered such an injury in April 2017 at the Tour de Yorkshire . Nevertheless, he started the new season with a stage win in the Tour of Oman .