Magnus Cort announces 2026 season will be his last
Magnus Cort has announced his plans to retire at the end of 2026. 11 years after turning pro with Orica GreenEDGE in 2015, the now-33-year-old Dane will end his career with Uno-X Mobility, which he joined in 2024.
"I have enjoyed this team and the camaraderie. It is completely unique for a professional team," Cort said in the team's release. "I have not experienced that before. I am happy to have been part of this journey. The team has been on a longer journey, but my three years have been fantastic — from ProTeam to WorldTour — and really feeling that you have contributed to that.”
After Sunday's national champs road race on home soil, Cort will return to the Tour de France for the eighth and last time, eight years after his debut at which he won his first Tour stage. That win into Carcassonne marked Cort's third Grand Tour stage, having won two at the 2016 Vuelta a España. He completed the Grand Tour trilogy at the Giro d'Italia in 2023, while racing for EF Education-EasyPost, his ninth across all three. His total palmarès stands at 35 wins, including stage 2 of this year's Volta a Catalunya, his first WorldTour victory in two years.
In July, he hopes to bring the tally up to 10 with one last Tour stage win – the Vuelta is also on his programme, so he'll have a second chance if it doesn't work out.
