Josie Knight
Irish cyclist
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| Born | (1997-03-29) 29 March 1997 (age 27) Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Josie Knight (born 29 March 1997) is an English professional racing cyclist who has represented Great Britain and England since 2018. Although born in Buckinghamshire in England, her family moved to Dingle in Ireland in her infancy, gaining Knight Irish citizenship, and she competed for Ireland prior to 2018, winning silver with the Irish team in the European Junior Championships in team pursuit in Anadia, Portugal.[1]
Following her transfer of allegiance, Knight was part of the Great Britain team that won the silver medal in team pursuit at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. She is a World and double European champion in team pursuit, and in 2024 became European champion in individual pursuit, her first international title. She has won further silver and bronze medals for Great Britain in the World and European Championships, and at the European Games.
Representing England, Knight won bronze in team pursuit at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
Life
Knight was born in 1997 near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire,[2][3] and she spent her childhood in County Kerry in Ireland. She said that she became a cyclist for Ireland as a youth but she did not think of herself as Irish.[4]
She rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.[5]
Becoming British
Knight switched her allegiance from Ireland to Great Britain in 2018.[6] She later described the Irish set-up at the time as "grim".[4] Knight became British champion when winning the Individual Pursuit Championship at the 2020 British National Track Championships.[7]
Knight was chosen to be part of the UK's 26-strong cycling squad for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she is joined by Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker, Laura Kenny and Neah Evans for the endurance races.[8] The team won the silver medal in the women's team pursuit event.
Major results
Road
- 2019
- 2nd Overall Rás na mBan
- 1st
Points classification - 1st
Best Young Rider classification - 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
- 1st
Track
- 2016
- 2nd Omnium, Dublin International
- 2019
- 2nd
Team pursuit, European Games - 2020
- 1st
Team pursuit, UEC European Championships - 2021
- 2nd
Team pursuit, Olympic Games - 3rd
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships - 2022
- UCI World Championships
- 2nd
Team pursuit - 3rd Individual pursuit
- 2nd
- 3rd
Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games - 2023
- 1st
Team pursuit, UCI World Championships - UEC European Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 2nd
Individual pursuit
- 1st
- 2024
- UEC European Championships
- 1st Individual pursuit
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 1st
References
- ^ "Josie Knight targeting Olympics place after swapping Ireland for Great Britain". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Josie Knight targeting Olympic place after swapping Ireland for Great Britain". Bucks Free Press.
- ^ Drew, Sophie (19 July 2021). "The Bucks Olympians heading to Tokyo 2020". buckinghamshirelive.
- ^ a b "Josie Knight on leaving "grim" Ireland cycling set-up for Team GB". Sticky Bottle. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "Entry List: Women" (PDF). UCI. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ "Josie Knight". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "Results" (PDF). British Cycling.
- ^ "Olympic Games: Team GB name Laura Kenny and Jason Kenny in 26-strong cycling squad for Tokyo". Sky Sports. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Josie Knight.
- Josie Knight at UCI
- Josie Knight at Cycling Archives
- Josie Knight at ProCyclingStats
- Josie Knight at Cycling Quotient
- Josie Knight at CycleBase
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UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Women's team pursuit- 2008: Great Britain (Houvenaghel, Romero, Rowsell)
- 2009: Great Britain (2) (Houvenaghel, Armitstead, Rowsell)
- 2010: Australia (Ankudinoff, Kent, Tomic)
- 2011: Great Britain (3) (Trott, Houvenaghel, King)
- 2012: Great Britain (4) (Trott, Rowsell, King)
- 2013: Great Britain (5) (Trott, E Barker, King)
- 2014: Great Britain (6) (Trott, E Barker, Rowsell, Archibald)
- 2015: Australia (2) (Edmundson, Ankudinoff, Cure, Hoskins)
- 2016: United States (Catlin, Dygert, Valente, Hammer)
- 2017: United States (2) (Catlin, Dygert, Valente, Geist)
- 2018: United States (3) (Catlin, Dygert, Valente, Geist)
- 2019: Australia (3) (Edmundson, Ankudinoff, Cure, Baker, Manly)
Riders in italics took part in the qualifying rounds.
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