Christian Knees

Christian Knees
Knees at the 2016 Nokere Koerse.
Personal information
Full nameChristian Knees
Born (1981-03-05) 5 March 1981 (age 43)
Bonn, West Germany
Height1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight81 kg (179 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeRouleur
Professional teams
2004–2005Wiesenhof
2006–2010Team Milram
2011–2020Team Sky[1][2]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Giro d'Italia
1 TTT stage (2013)
Vuelta a España
1 TTT stage (2016)

Stage races

Bayern Rundfahrt (2008)

One-day Races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2010)

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

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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

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Grand Tour 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
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
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

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  1. ^ "Team Sky". Cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Team Ineos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Christian Knees calls time on 17-year career". Cyclingnews.com. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  4. ^ "German Road Championships 2010: Elite men's road race Results".
  5. ^ German champ Knees joins Team Sky
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