Mads Pedersen

Mads Pedersen is a Danish Classics specialist who made the move to the WorldTour in 2017 with Trek-Segafredo and has remained with the team with a contract that runs through 2025.

Highly successful in the regional races, Pedersen won the Tour of Denmark and Danish road title in his first year with Trek. He emerged as a top Classics contender in 2018 with a second place finish in the Tour of Flanders. He won a few other stages and races but his first major breakthrough came with a stunning elite men's road race title at the 2019 UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire.

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted his year as world champion but he managed to win Gent-Wevelgem, a stage of the BinckBank Tour and a stage of the Tour de Pologne in the abbreviated season. In 2021, he won Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne and stages of the Tour of Denmark and Tour of Norway.

The 2022 season began a shift for Pedersen, as he emerged as a threat to the main contenders like Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel in the Classics. He won a stage of the Etoile de Bessèges, Paris-Nice, Circuit Sarthe and Baloise Belgium Tour and then made a breakthrough with a Tour de France stage win from the breakaway in Saint-Etienne. He raced the Vuelta a España, too, winning three stages and the points classification.

In 2023, he landed on the podium again in the Tour of Flanders with third, won another Paris-Nice stage and a stage of the Giro d'Italia before dropping out. He won a second Tour de France stage in Limoge in a bunch sprint and won the Tour of Denmark.

Pedersen had a very promising start to the 2024 season with the overall win in the Etoile de Bessèges and Tour de la Provence along with stages of both. He won Gent-Wevelgem and finished third in Paris-Roubaix, and went on to win the opening stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné. However, a crash ruined his Tour de France hopes and he left the race on stage 8. He came back to win the Deutschland Tour and a stage of the Tour de Luxembourg.

Key Results

🥇 UCI Road World Championships elite men's road race

🥇 2x stages Tour de France (2022, 2023)

🥇 1x Giro d'Italia stage (2023)

🥇 3x Vuelta a Espana stages (2022)

🥇 Gent-Wevelgem (2020, 2024)

🥇 Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne (2021)

🥇 2x stages Paris-Nice

🥇 Tour of Denmark (2017, 2023)