The slight Copenhagen climber owns one of cycling's great giant-killing moments: out-sprinting Tadej Pogačar and Remco Evenepoel to win the 2025 Amstel Gold Race, a race he nearly won again this April. At the Tour he rides as Lidl-Trek's second protected card, a luxury lieutenant whose chemistry with Ayuso — on show at the Dauphiné in June — gives the team a two-headed threat in the mountains. If the Spaniard falters, Denmark has a ready-made plan B.
Palmarès
- Tour de Suisse GC winner (2023)
- Amstel Gold Race winner (2025), 2nd (2026)
- Vuelta a España 5th overall and best young rider (2024)
- Danish road race champion (2023); Danish time trial champion (2024)
- Tour de Luxembourg GC winner (2022)
Cut-out factHis nickname is 'Missen fra Amager' — 'the Kitty from Amager', after his Copenhagen neighborhood — and Lance Armstrong has publicly tipped him as a future Grand Tour contender.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Juan Ayuso, Derek Gee-West, Mads Pedersen, Quinn Simmons, Toms Skujiņš, Mathias Vacek, Carlos Verona — see the full Lidl-Trek team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Hugo LUC, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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