# Morgan Kneisky

Morgan Kneisky (born 31 August 1987) is a French former track and road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2020 for the Team Raleigh–GAC, Armée de Terre, Roubaix–Lille Métropole and Groupama–FDJ Continental Team squads. Kneisky is a four-time UCI Track Cycling World Championships gold medallist, winning golds in the madison in 2013 with Vivien Brisse, 2015 with Bryan Coquard and 2017 with Benjamin Thomas, and the scratch in 2009. He retired following the 2021 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

## 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. In 2009, Kneisky participated in his first Track Cycling World Championships, and came away with the Scratch race title. He has subsequently won three more world titles in the Madison at the 2013, 2015 and 2017 World Championships.
Kneisky signed with the British-based Team Raleigh for the 2014 season. After his contract with the team was not renewed for 2017, in December 2016 it was announced that Kneisky would join the Armée de Terre team for 2017. Following the disbanding of Armée de Terre at the end of 2017, Kneisky rejoined Roubaix–Lille Métropole.
In 2023, he became team manager of UCI Women's Continental Team Lifeplus–Wahoo alongside Małgorzata Jasińska.

## Major results
### Road
#### 2008

    1st Overall Tour de Moselle
       1st Stage 1

#### 2010

    7th Grand Prix de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise

#### 2011

    3rd Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
    10th Polynormande

#### 2012

    1st Stage 3 Boucles de la Mayenne
    2nd Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies
    7th Gooikse Pijl
    9th Route Adélie
    10th Paris–Troyes

#### 2013

    8th Overall Ronde de l'Oise

#### 2014

    1st Stafford GP
    5th Ryedale Grand Prix
    8th Eddie Soens Memorial
    9th Wales Open Criterium
    10th Circuit of the Fens

#### 2015

    1st Points classification Tour Series
    2nd Stafford Kermesse
    3rd Chorley Grand Prix
    3rd Stafford GP
    4th Otley Grand Prix
    5th Eddie Soens Memorial
    6th Velothon Wales

#### 2017

    6th Overall Rás Tailteann

### Track
#### 2008

    3rd Points race, National Under-23 Championships

#### 2009

    1st Scratch, UCI World Championships
    National Championships
       1st Scratch
       1st Madison (with Kévin Fouache)
       3rd Team pursuit

#### 2010

    1st Scratch, UCI World Cup Classics, Cali
    1st Points race, National Championships
    2nd Madison, UCI World Championships (with Christophe Riblon)

#### 2011

    1st Six Days of Grenoble (with Iljo Keisse)
    2nd Madison, UCI World Cup, Cali (with Vivien Brisse)
    UCI World Championships
       3rd Points race
       3rd Scratch
    3rd Madison, UEC European Championships (with Vivien Brisse)
    3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Marc Hester)

#### 2012

    2nd Six Days of Grenoble (with Bryan Coquard)

#### 2013

    1st Madison, UCI World Championships (with Vivien Brisse)
    1st Madison, National Championships (with Julien Duval)
    1st Six Days of Grenoble (with Vivien Brisse)

#### 2014

    1st Six Days of Grenoble (with Thomas Boudat)
    3rd Madison, UEC European Championships (with Vivien Brisse)
    National Championships
       3rd Madison (with Philémon Marcel-Millet)
       3rd Scratch

#### 2015

    1st Madison, UCI World Championships (with Bryan Coquard)
    1st Madison, UCI World Cup, Cambridge (with Benjamin Thomas)
    2nd Six Days of Bremen (with Jesper Mørkøv)
    3rd Madison, UEC European Championships (with Bryan Coquard)

#### 2016

    2nd Madison, UCI World Championships (with Benjamin Thomas)
    2nd Madison, UEC European Championships (with Benjamin Thomas)
    UCI World Cup, Apeldoorn
       2nd Points race
       3rd Team pursuit
    2nd Six Days of Bremen (with Jesper Mørkøv)
    2nd Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with Benjamin Thomas)
    2nd Six Days of Rotterdam (with Christian Grasmann)

#### 2017

    1st Madison, UCI World Championships (with Benjamin Thomas)
    1st Six Days of Fiorenzuola (with Benjamin Thomas)
    2nd Madison, UCI World Cup, Manchester (with Benjamin Thomas)
    2nd Six Days of Ghent (with Benjamin Thomas)

#### 2018

    3rd Madison, National Championships (with Joseph Berlin-Sémon)
    3rd Six Days of Rotterdam (with Benjamin Thomas)
    3rd Six Days of Turin (with Joseph Berlin-Sémon)

#### 2019

    National Championships
       2nd Scratch
       3rd Omnium
    3rd Madison, UCI World Cup, Brisbane (with Kévin Vauquelin)

#### 2020

    2nd Six Days of Bremen (with Theo Reinhardt)
    3rd Six Days of Berlin (with Theo Reinhardt)