Josie Knight

Josie Knight (born 29 March 1997) is an English professional racing cyclist who has represented Great Britain and England since 2018. Although born in Buckinghamshire in England, her family moved to Dingle in Ireland in her infancy, gaining Knight Irish citizenship, and she 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 of allegiance, 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
Knight was born in 1997 near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and she spent her childhood in County Kerry in Ireland. She said that she became a cyclist for Ireland as a youth but she did not think of herself as Irish.

She rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

Becoming British
Knight switched her allegiance from Ireland to Great Britain in 2018. She later described the Irish set-up at the time as "grim". Knight became British champion when winning the Individual Pursuit Championship at the 2020 British National Track Championships.

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. The team won the silver medal in the women's team pursuit event.

Road

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

Track

 * 2016
 * 2nd Omnium, Dublin International


 * 2019
 * 2nd Silver medal blank.svg Team pursuit, European Games


 * 2020
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit, UEC European Championships


 * 2021
 * 2nd Silver medal olympic.svg Team pursuit, Olympic Games
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships


 * 2022
 * UCI World Championships
 * 2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team pursuit
 * 3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Individual pursuit
 * 3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games


 * 2023
 * 1st Jersey rainbow.svg Team pursuit, UCI World Championships
 * UEC European Championships
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Team pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Individual pursuit


 * 2024
 * UEC European Championships
 * 1st European champion jersey 2016.svg Individual pursuit
 * 2nd Silver medal europe.svg Team pursuit