Nils Politt: 2026 team, palmarès and profile

Team (2026): UAE Team Emirates XRG
Nationality: Germany
Born: 6 March 1994, Cologne, Germany
Profile: Cobbled classics rider, time trialist and domestique
Pro since: 2013
Previous teams: Team Stölting (2013–2015), Team Katusha / Katusha–Alpecin (2016–2019), Israel Start-Up Nation (2020), Bora–Hansgrohe (2021–2023)

Facts checked on 20 October 2026. Every fact has a source, listed at the bottom of this page.

2026 season

12 April 2026Paris–Roubaix9th Source
26 June 2026German National Time Trial Championships1st (national champion) Source
28 June 2026German National Road Race Championships4th Source
26 July 2026Tour de FranceFinished (72nd overall) in the team that won with Tadej Pogačar Source
6 September 2026Tour of Britain, stage 5 (Earlston – Earlston)1st Source

Palmarès

2018Deutschland Tour2nd overall (stage 4 win) Source
2019Paris–Roubaix2nd Source
2019UCI Road World Championships – mixed team relay2nd (silver, with Germany) Source
2021Tour de France, stage 121st Source
2021Deutschland Tour1st overall (stage 3 win) Source
2022German National Road Race Championships1st (national champion) Source
2022Rund um Köln1st Source
2024Omloop Het Nieuwsblad2nd Source
2024Tour of Flanders3rd Source
2026German National Time Trial Championships1st (third elite title, after 2023 and 2024) Source

Biography

Nils Politt is a German road cyclist who rides for UAE Team Emirates XRG. He was born on 6 March 1994 in Cologne and raced as a youth for the local club RV Komet–Delia 09 Köln. He rode for the German Continental team Team Stölting from 2013 to 2015 and won the national under-23 time trial title in 2014 and the under-23 road race title in 2015.

Team Katusha signed him on a two-year contract from 2016, after a period as a stagiaire at the end of 2015. He rode his first Tour de France in 2017. In 2018 he won a stage of the Deutschland Tour and finished second overall. His breakthrough came in 2019: he was second in the Paris–Nice time trial, fifth at the Tour of Flanders and second at Paris–Roubaix, and won silver with Germany in the mixed team relay at the World Championships. He moved to Israel Start-Up Nation for 2020, which had taken over Katusha’s WorldTour licence.

Politt joined Bora–Hansgrohe in 2021. That July he won stage 12 of the Tour de France with a solo attack from a breakaway, about 12 km from the finish, and in August he won the Deutschland Tour with a stage win. In 2022 he won Rund um Köln, his home race, and the German road race title, and rode the Tour for Aleksandr Vlasov, who finished fifth. He became German time trial champion in 2023.

He moved to UAE Team Emirates in 2024 on a three-year contract and was second at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, third at the Tour of Flanders and fourth at Paris–Roubaix in his first spring with the team. He won the German time trial title again in 2024. In 2026 he was ninth at Paris–Roubaix, won a third German time trial title in June, rode the Tour de France for Tadej Pogačar’s winning team and won stage 5 of the Tour of Britain in September.