Christian Knees

Christian Knees
Personal information
Knees at the 2016 Nokere Koerse.
Full name	Christian Knees
Born	(1981-03-05) 5 March 1981 Bonn, West Germany
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	81 kg (179 lb)
Team information
Current team	Team Sky
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Rouleur
Professional team(s)
2004–2005	Wiesenhof
2006–2010	Team Milram
2011–	Team Sky
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 Championship (2010)
Infobox last updated on 20 August 2016

Christian Knees (born 5 March 1981) is a German professional road racing cyclist who rides for Team Sky.^[1] He won the German National Road Race Championship in 2010.^[2] 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.^[3]

Career achievements

Major results

Source^[4]

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 National Road Race 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 GP di Lugano

10th Amstel Gold Race

2010

1st

National Road Race Championship

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

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro d'Italia	59	—	—	66
Tour de France	—	—	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	WD	91	124

WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP

References

External links

Media related to Christian Knees at Wikimedia Commons

Riders on Team Sky

German National Road Race Champions (men)

1900–1919	Karl Wittig (1910) Ernst Franz (1913) Richard Golle (1919)

1920–1939	Paul Koch (1920) Adolf Huschke (1921) Richard Huschke (1922) Richard Golle (1923) Paul Kohl (1924) Richard Huschke (1925) Felix Manthey (1928) Kurt Stöpel (1934) Bruno Roth (1935) Georg Umbenhauer (1936) Erich Bautz (1937) Jupp Arents (1938) Walter Löber (1939)

1940–1959	Georg Stach (1940) Erich Bautz (1941) Karl Kittsteiner (1946) Georg Voggenreiter (1947) Otto Schenk (1948) Otto Ziege (1949) Erich Bautz (1950) Ludwig Hörmann (1951–1952) Heinz Müller (1953) Hermann Schild (1954) Hans Preiskeit (1955) Valentin Petry (1956) Franz Reitz (1957) Klaus Bugdahl (1958) Hans Junkermann (1959)

1960–1979	Hans Junkermann (1960–1961) Dieter Puschel (1962) Sigi Renz (1963) Rudi Altig (1964) Winfried Bölke (1965–1967) Rolf Wolfshohl (1968) Peter Glemser (1969) Rudi Altig (1970) Jürgen Tschan (1971) Wilfried Peffgen (1972) Günter Haritz (1974) Dietrich Thurau (1975–1976) Jürgen Kraft (1977) Gregor Braun (1978) Hans-Peter Jakst (1978)

1980–1999	Gregor Braun (1980) Hans Neumayer (1981–1982) Gregor Braun (1983) Reimund Dietzen (1984) Rolf Gölz (1985) Reimund Dietzen (1986) Peter Hilse (1987) Hartmut Bölts (1988) Darius Kaiser (1989) Udo Bölts (1990) Falk Boden (1991) Heinrich Trumheller (1992) Bernd Gröne (1993) Jens Heppner (1994) Udo Bölts (1995) Christian Henn (1996) Jan Ullrich (1997) Erik Zabel (1998) Udo Bölts (1999)

2000–2019	Rolf Aldag (2000) Jan Ullrich (2001) Danilo Hondo (2002) Erik Zabel (2003) Andreas Klöden (2004) Gerald Ciolek (2005) Dirk Müller (2006) Fabian Wegmann (2007–2008) Martin Reimer (2009) Christian Knees (2010) Robert Wagner (2011) Fabian Wegmann (2012) André Greipel (2013–2014) Emanuel Buchmann (2015) André Greipel (2016)

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