Christian Knees
Knees at the 2016 Nokere Koerse. | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Christian Knees |
Born | (1981-03-05) 5 March 1981 (age 43) Bonn, West Germany |
Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in) |
Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Rouleur |
Professional teams | |
2004–2005 | Wiesenhof |
2006–2010 | Team Milram |
2011–2020 | Team Sky[1][2] |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
Stage races
One-day Races and Classics | |
Christian Knees (born 5 March 1981) is a German former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2020, for the Wiesenhof, Team Milram and Ineos Grenadiers teams.[3] He won the German National Road Race Championship in 2010.[4] In 2011 he was originally going to join the Australian team known as Pegasus but left after they failed to secure a UCI Professional Continental license. He ultimately joined Team Sky as a domestique.[5] He remained with the team as a rider until announcing his retirement from the sport in December 2020, moving into a role within the team's racing and performance areas.[3]
Major results
- 2001
- 3rd Overall Rás Tailteann
- 1st Stage 5
- 2004
- 6th Overall The Peace Race
- 1st Young rider classification
- 6th Overall Ytong Bohemia Tour
- 7th Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
- 7th Rund um Düren
- 7th Alpbach Rad Classic
- 2005
- 2nd Overall Sachsen-Tour
- 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami
- 6th Overall Ster Elektrotoer
- 7th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 7th Overall Hessen Rundfahrt
- 8th Ronde van Drenthe
- 2006
- 1st Rund um Köln
- 4th Overall 3-Länder-Tour
- 2007
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Eindhoven Team Time Trial
- 2008
- 1st Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
- 2nd Sparkassen Giro Bochum
- 5th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 9th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 2009
- 3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 8th Brabantse Pijl
- 10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 10th Gran Premio di Lugano
- 10th Amstel Gold Race
- 2010
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 2012
- 7th Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
- 9th Overall Tour of Britain
- 2013
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Giro del Trentino
- 2016
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
- 2019
- 1st Mountains classification Herald Sun Tour
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | 73 | 72 | — | — | — | — | — | 59 | — | — | 66 | — | 91 | 96 |
Tour de France | 102 | 47 | 27 | 19 | 91 | 64 | 82 | — | — | — | — | 144 | — | — |
Vuelta a España | — | — | — | 43 | — | — | — | — | DNF | 91 | 124 | 124 | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
- ^ "Team Sky". Cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Team Ineos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ a b "Christian Knees calls time on 17-year career". Cyclingnews.com. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
- ^ "German Road Championships 2010: Elite men's road race Results".
- ^ German champ Knees joins Team Sky
External links
Media related to Christian Knees at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- Christian Knees profile at Team Sky
- Christian Knees at ProCyclingStats
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