Morgan Kneisky
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31 August 1987 Besançon, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Raleigh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Track and road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2008–2009 | Chambéry Cyclisme Formation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2010–2013 | Roubaix-Lille Métropole | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014– | Team Raleigh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Morgan Kneisky (born 31 August 1987) is a French track and road racing cyclist. He is a member of Team Raleigh, and a three-time World Track Cycling Champion.
Biography
Morgan Kneisky began cycling as a youngster, when he joined the Amicale Cycliste Bisontine. In 2008, he joined the Chambéry Cyclisme Formation, a team in the top national division. That year, he won the Tour de Moselle.[1] In 2009, Kneisky participated in his first Track Cycling World Championships, and came away with the Scratch race title. He has subsequently won two more world titles in the Madison at the 2013 and 2015 World Championships.
Kneisky signed with the British-based Team Raleigh for the 2014 season.[2]
Palmarès
Track
- 2009
- 1st
Scratch Race, World Championships - National Championships
- 1st Scratch
- 1st Madison (with Kevin Fouache)
- 2010
- 1st Points race, National Championships
- 2013
- 1st Madison, World Championships (with Vivien Brisse)[3]
- 2015
- 1st Madison, World Championships (with Bryan Coquard)[4]
Road
- 2008
- 1st Overall Tour de Moselle
- 1st Stage 1
- 2012
- 1st Stage 3 Boucles de la Mayenne
- 2013
- 8th Overall Ronde de l'Oise
- 2014
- 1st Stafford GP[5]
- 5th Ryedale Grand Prix[6]
- 8th Eddie Soens Memorial[7]
- 9th Wales Open Criterium[8]
- 10th Circuit of the Fens[9]
- 2015
- 3rd Chorley Grand Prix[10]
- 5th Eddie Soens Memorial[11]
References
- ↑ "KNEISKY Morgan" (in French). chamberycyclismeformation.com. 26 March 2009.
- ↑ "Team Raleigh 2014" (PDF). Raleigh Bicycle Company. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ↑ "Hammer wraps up sixth world title with Omnium victory". cyclingnews.com. 2 February 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ↑ "Track Worlds: Australia’s Edmondson wins omnium, Meares wins keirin". cyclingnews.com. 25 February 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ↑ Whitehouse, Andy (2 August 2014). "Morgan Kneisky (Team Raleigh) wins 2014 Stafford Grand Prix". British Cycling. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ↑ "The Ryedale Grand Prix inc The Peter Longbottom Memorial". British Cycling. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ↑ "53rd Eddie Soens Memorial Cycle Race". British Cycling. Retrieved 16 June 2014.
- ↑ Whitehouse, Andy (30 July 2014). "Graham Briggs (Rapha Condor) wins Wales Open Criterium, while Alex Blain (Team Raleigh) wins overall series". British Cycling. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ↑ Whitehouse, Andy (27 July 2014). "Adam Blythe (NFTO Pro Cycling) wins the 2014 Vericool for Schools Circuit of the Fens". British Cycling. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ↑ "Ian Bibby wins Chorley Grand Prix". Cycling Weekly. 4 April 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- ↑ "Peter Williams wins Eddie Soens as One Pro Cycling continue to dominate". Cycling Weekly. 7 March 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
External links
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- Morgan Kneisky profile at Cycling Archives