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

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

National Championships

3rd Team pursuit 2010 1st Scratch, UCI World Cup Classics, Cali

2011 1st Six Days of Grenoble (with Iljo Keisse) 2nd Madison, UCI World Cup, Cali (with Vivien Brisse) UCI World Championships

3rd Six Days of Ghent (with Marc Hester) 2012 2nd Six Days of Grenoble (with Bryan Coquard) 2013

1st Six Days of Grenoble (with Vivien Brisse) 2014 1st Six Days of Grenoble (with Thomas Boudat)

National Championships 3rd Madison (with Philémon Marcel-Millet) 3rd Scratch 2015

1st Madison, UCI World Cup, Cambridge (with Benjamin Thomas) 2nd Six Days of Bremen (with Jesper Mørkøv)

2016

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 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)