Personal information | |
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Full name | James Alexander Knox |
Nickname | Knoxy |
Born | Levens, Cumbria, United Kingdom | 4 November 1995
Height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Soudal–Quick-Step |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Climber |
Amateur team | |
2014–2015 | Zappi |
Professional teams | |
2016–2017 | WIGGINS |
2018– | Quick-Step Floors [1] [2] |
James Alexander Knox (born 4 November 1995) is a British road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Soudal–Quick-Step. [3]
In 2017, Knox came second in the under-23 version of Liège–Bastogne–Liège. [4] In September of that year Quick-Step Floors announced that Knox would turn professional with the team for the 2018 season. [1]
In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Giro d'Italia. [5] In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España. [6] He was in the general classification Top 10 with two stages to go, however he lost 11 minutes on the penultimate stage after crashing the day before, eventually finishing in 11th place. [7]
Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||||
Grand Tour | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||||
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Giro d'Italia | — | DNF | 14 | 53 | 81 | — | — | ||||
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
Vuelta a España | — | 11 | — | 100 | — | 65 | |||||
Major stage race general classification results | |||||||||||
Race | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||||
Paris–Nice | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||
Tirreno–Adriatico | — | — | 7 | — | — | — | — | ||||
Volta a Catalunya | 78 | 25 | NH | 34 | — | — | 59 | ||||
Tour of the Basque Country | DNF | — | 14 | DNF | 8 | DNF | |||||
Tour de Romandie | DNF | 14 | — | 71 | DNF | — | |||||
Critérium du Dauphiné | 79 | — | 76 | — | — | — | 77 | ||||
Tour de Suisse | — | — | NH | — | 73 | 70 | — |