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 and 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 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 team for 2017. Following the disbanding of Armée de Terre at the end of 2017, Kneisky rejoined .
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)
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
French male cyclists
Sportspeople from Besançon
UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
French track cyclists
Cyclists from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté