Nicolas Portal (23 April 1979 – 3 March 2020) was a French directeur sportif and professional road bicycle racer.

[3] His only professional victory came at the 2004 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, where he won stage 3 with a late attack on the final climb.

[3][5] Portal was part of the team that saw Óscar Pereiro win the 2006 Tour de France, a race he finished even though he suffered a serious crash on stage 15.

Under his guidance, Sky riders won six of the next seven editions of the Tour de France, as well as one Vuelta a España and a Giro d'Italia.

[3] In 2019, after guiding Egan Bernal to victory in the Tour, Portal became the first sporting director to win the race with three different riders since Cyrille Guimard in 1983, having previously won it with Chris Froome four times and Geraint Thomas once.