Josie Knight

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 2024 Paris 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.

She cycled with Danielson Curtin from Kanturk Cycling Club, Co. Cork Ireland