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Josie Knight
Josie Knight in 2020
Personal information
Born (1997-03-29) 29 March 1997 (age 27)
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Team information
DisciplineTrack
RoleRider
Medal record
Women's track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Team pursuit
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Glasgow Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2024 Ballerup Team pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Roubaix Team pursuit
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Individual pursuit
European Games
Silver medal – second place 2019 Minsk Team pursuit
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2020 Plovdiv Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2023 Grenchen Team pursuit
Gold medal – first place 2024 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2023 Grenchen Individual pursuit
Silver medal – second place 2024 Apeldoorn Team pursuit
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Birmingham Team pursuit
Representing  Ireland
U23 & Junior European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2014 Anadia Individual pursuit

Josie Knight (born 29 March 1997) is an English professional racing cyclist who has at various stages represented Ireland, Great Britain and England. Born in Buckinghamshire in England, her family moved to Dingle, Co. Kerry in Ireland during her early infancy. Josie competed for Ireland prior to 2018, winning silver with the Irish team in the European Junior Championships in team pursuit in Anadia, Portugal.

Following her transfer to the UK team in 2018, 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

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Knight was born in 1997 near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire[1] but moved to Ireland shortly afterwards. She spent her childhood in Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland. She attended Scoil an Ghleanna Primary School and Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne Secondary School in Dingle. She said that she became a cyclist for Ireland as a youth but decided to transfer to the UK to further enhance her cycling career.

She rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.[2]

Becoming British

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Knight switched from Ireland to Great Britain in 2018. She did so as she felt that she could better progress her cycling career in the UK. At that time Ireland had no prospects of entering a team for Olympics 2020 and neither had they an indoor Velodrome to train on. Knight became British champion when winning the Individual Pursuit Championship at the 2020 British National Track Championships.[3]

Knight was chosen to be part of the UK's 26-strong cycling squad for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she wS joined by Katie Archibald, Elinor Barker, Laura Kenny and Neah Evans for the endurance races.[4] The team won the silver medal in the women's team pursuit event.[5]

She was part of the Great Britain squad which won gold in the team pursuit at the 2024 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Ballerup, Denmark.[6][7]

Major results

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Road

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2019
2nd Overall Rás na mBan
1st Points classification
1st Best Young Rider classification
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3

Track

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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
3rd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
2023
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
UEC European Championships
1st Team pursuit
2nd Individual pursuit
2024
UEC European Championships
1st Individual pursuit
2nd Team pursuit
1st Team pursuit, UCI World Championships

References

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  1. ^ Drew, Sophie (19 July 2021). "The Bucks Olympians heading to Tokyo 2020". buckinghamshirelive.
  2. ^ "Entry List: Women" (PDF). UCI. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Results" (PDF). British Cycling.
  4. ^ "Olympic Games: Team GB name Laura Kenny and Jason Kenny in 26-strong cycling squad for Tokyo". Sky Sports. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Olympics: Germany beat Great Britain to win gold in women's team pursuit". Cycling News. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  6. ^ "GB win women's team pursuit gold at World Championships". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  7. ^ "'We came out swinging' - Great Britain make sensational catch to win team pursuit gold at World Championships". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
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