Christian Knees

Christian Knees
	Knees at the 2016 Nokere Koerse.
Personal information
Full name	Christian Knees
Born	5 March 1981 (age 44); Bonn, West Germany
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Weight	81 kg (179 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Rouleur
Professional teams
2004–2005	Wiesenhof
2006–2010	Team Milram
2011–2020	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 Championships (2010)

Christian Knees (born 5 March 1981) is a German former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2020, for the Wiesenhof, Team Milram and Ineos Grenadiers teams.^[3] He won the German National Road Race Championship in 2010.^[4] 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.^[5] He remained with the team as a rider until announcing his retirement from the sport in December 2020, moving into a role within the team's racing and performance areas.^[3]

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Grand Tour	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	73	72	—	—	—	—	—	59	—	—	66	—	91	96
Tour de France	102	47	27	19	91	64	82	—	—	—	—	144	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	43	—	—	—	—	DNF	91	124	124	—	—

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

Christian Knees

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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