Mads Pedersen

Mads Pedersen is a Classics specialist from Denmark 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 at the age of 21. 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.

Momentum continued in 2025, his final contract year with Lidl-Trek, as he won a stage at Paris-Nice for a fourth consecutive year and finished behind Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) as runner-up at E3 Saxo Classic.

Key Results

2025

🥇 One stage and points classification at Paris-Nice

🥇 One stage, GC and points classification at Tour de la Provence

🥈 E3 Saxo Classic

2024

🥇 Gent-Wevelgem

🥇 One stage and GC at Etoile de Bessèges

🥇 Three stages, GC and points classification at Tour de la Provence

🥇 Two stages and GC at Deutschland Tour

🥇 One stage at Tour de Luxembourg

🥈  Two stages at Paris-Nice

🥈  Points classification at Tour de Luxembourg

🥉 Paris-Roubaix

2023

🥇 One stage at Tour de France

🥇 One stage at Giro d'Italia

🥇 One stage at Paris-Nice

🥇 One stage at Etoile de Bessèges

🥇 One stage  and GC at Tour of Denmark

🥈  GP d'Isbergues - Pas de Calais

🥉 Tour of Flanders

2022

🥇 One stage at Tour de France

🥇 Three stages and points classification at Vuelta a España

🥇 One stage and points classification at Baloise Belgium Tour

🥇 One stage at Paris-Nice

🥇 One stage and points classification at Etoile de Bessèges

🥇 Two stages and points classification at Circuit Cycliste Sarthe

🥈  Four stages at the Vuelta a España

🥉 Two stages at the Tour de France

2021

🥇 Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne 

🥇 One stage Tour of Norway

🥇 One stage and points classification at tour of Denmark

🥈  Bredene Koksijde Classic

🥈  One stage at Paris-Nice

2020

🥇 Gent-Wevelgem

🥇 One stage and points classification at BinckBank Tour

🥇 One stage at Tour de Pologne

🥈  Two stages at Tour de France

2019

🥇 World Championships elite men's road race

🥇 GP d'Isbergues - Pas de Calais