Josie Knight

Josie Knight in 2020
Personal information
Born	(1997-03-29) 29 March 1997 (age 27) Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Medal record Women's track cycling Representing   Great Britain Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team pursuit World Championships 2023 Glasgow Team pursuit 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Team pursuit 2021 Roubaix Team pursuit 2022 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Individual pursuit European Games 2019 Minsk Team pursuit European Championships 2020 Plovdiv Team pursuit 2023 Grenchen Team pursuit 2024 Apeldoorn Individual pursuit 2023 Grenchen Individual pursuit 2024 Apeldoorn Team pursuit Representing   England Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham Team pursuit Representing   Ireland U23 & Junior European Championships 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.

Knight was born in 1997 near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire ^[1] and she spent her childhood in Dingle, County Kerry in 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]

Knight switched from Ireland to Great Britain in 2018. She did so as she felt that she could better progress her cycling carreer in the UK. 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 postponed 2020 Tokyo Olympics where she is 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.

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