Knut Knudsen
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12 October 1950 Levanger, Norway | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 185 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Knut Knudsen (born 12 October 1950) is a retired Norwegian road and track cyclist. As an amateur he competed on track in the individual 4000 m pursuit at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and 1973 World Champsionships, and won the event in 1972 and 1973. At the 1972 Olympics he also placed fifth in the 100 km team time trial on the road.[1] He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships in 1972 and 1973.[2]
Between 1966 and 1973 Knudsen won 11 Norwegian championships. In 1974 he turned professional and cycled in Italy until 1981. He won six stages of the Giro d'Italia and wore the pink leader jersey in this major tour. Knudsen won Tirreno–Adriatico in 1979. He was chosen the world's best time trial cyclist by two biggest sporting magazines from 1979 to 1981. In total he won 49 professional races.
Major achievements
- 1966
- 1st
National Championship, Track, Pursuit, Juniors
- 1967
- 1st National Championship, Track, Pursuit, Juniors
- 1968
- 1st National Championship, Road, Juniors
- 1st Nordic Championship, Road, Juniors
- 2nd Nordic Championship, Road, Team time trial
- 1969
- 1st National Championship, Track, 1 km, Elite
- 1st National Championship, Track, Pursuit, Elite
- 1972
- 1st National Championship, Track, 1 km, Elite
- 1st National Championship, Track, Pursuit, Elite
- 1st National Championship, Road, Elite
- 1st National Championship, Road, ITT, Elite
- 1st Nordic Championship, Road, Amateurs
- 2nd Nordic Championship, Team time trial, Amateurs
- 1st,
Olympic Games, Track, Pursuit, Elite
- 1973
- 1st
World Championship, Track, Pursuit, Amateurs - 1st National Championship, Track, 1 km, Elite
- 1st National Championship, Track, Pursuit, Elite
- 1st National Championship, Road, Elite
- 1st National Championship, Road, ITT, Elite
- 2nd Nordic Championship, Road, TTT, Amateurs
- 1974
- 1st Stage 5b
- 3rd Stage 4
- 2nd overall classification
- 2nd Stage 5
- 2nd Stage 19
- 1975
- 2nd World Championship, Track, Pursuit, Elite
- 3rd overall classification
- 3rd Stage 5
3rd overall classification
- 2nd overall classification
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st Stage 1
- 3rd Stage 6
- 3rd Stage 9
- 1976
- 3rd
World Championship, Track, Pursuit, Elite
- 1st Stage 1
- 3rd Stage 7
- 2nd Stage 17
- 1977
- 2nd
World Championship, Track, Pursuit, Elite
- 3rd overall classification
- 3rd Stage 1
- 3rd Stage 2
- 1st Stage 4b
- 2nd Stage 1
- 1st Stage 5
- 2nd Stage 7
- 3rd Prologue
- 1st Stage 9
- 3rd Stage 21
- 1978
- 1st Trofeo Laigueglia
- 3rd Trofeo Pantalica
- 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Roy Schuiten)
- 1st overall classification
- 3rd Stage 2
- 1st overall classification
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd overall classification
- 3rd Stage 3
- 1st Stage 5
- 3rd Stage 4
- 2nd Stage 16
- 1979
- 2nd Giro del Lazio
- 3rd Milan–San Remo
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Stage 5b
- 1st overall classification
- 1st Prologue
- 1st overall classification
- 1st Stage 5
- 3rd Prologue
- 2nd Stage 1
- 2nd Stage 3
- 2nd Stage 8
- 1st Stage 10
- 3rd Stage 14
- 27 overall classification
- 2nd Prologue
- 2nd Stage 11
- 1980
- 3rd Trofeo Pantalica
- 1st GP Eddy Merckx
- 1st Prologue
- 2nd Prologue
- 1st Stage 4b
- 2nd overall classification
- 2nd Stage 2b
- 2nd Stage 4
- 3rd Prologue
- 1st Stage 1a
- 2nd Prologue
- 3rd Stage 5
- 3rd Stage 20
- 1981
- 1st GP Eddy Merckx
- 2nd Trofeo Baracchi
- 1st Prologue
- 2nd Stage 7
- 1st Prologue
- 1st Stage 13
- 1st Stage 23a
References
- ↑ "Knut Knudsen Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
- ↑ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Norway". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
External links
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- Knut Knudsen profile at Cycling Archives