Josie Knight

Josie Knight
	Josie Knight in 2020
Personal information
Born	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
World Championships
European Games
European Championships
Representing England
Commonwealth Games
Representing Ireland
U23 & Junior European Championships

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.^[1]

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,^[2]^[3] 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.^[4]

She rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.^[5]

Becoming British

Knight switched her allegiance from Ireland to Great Britain in 2018.^[6] She later described the Irish set-up at the time as "grim".^[4] Knight became British champion when winning the Individual Pursuit Championship at the 2020 British National Track Championships.^[7]

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.^[8] The team won the silver medal in the women's team pursuit event.