Knut Knudsen
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Knut Knudsen (born 12 October 1950) is a retired Norwegian road and track cyclist. As an amateur, he placed fifth in the 4000m individual pursuit at the 1968 Olympics before becoming Olympic champion in the same discipline in 1972. He would follow this up with another gold at the 1973 World Championships. 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]
In 1974 he turned professional and cycled in Italy until 1981. He won six stages of the Giro d'Italia and wore the Maglia Rosa leader's jersey twice, becoming the first Norwegian to do so and the only wearer until Andreas Leknessund managed the same feat some 42 years after Knudsen last held it. The first time he held the pink leader jersey was for two stages after winning Stage 1 of the 1975 Giro d'Italia on 17 May, Norway's constitution day. In 1981 he could once again put on the pink jersey after winning the prologue. After finishing second in the race three times, 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 results
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- 1966
- 1st Template:Cjersey Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships
- 1967
- 1st Template:Cjersey Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships
- 1968
- 1st Template:Cjersey Road race, National Junior Road Championships
- 1st Road race, Nordic Junior Road Championships
- 2nd Team time trial, Nordic Road Championships
- 1969
- National Track Championships
- 1st Template:Cjersey Kilo
- 1st Template:Cjersey Individual pursuit
- 1972
- 1st File:Gold medal olympic.svg Individual pursuit, Olympic Games
- National Road Championships
- 1st Template:Cjersey Road race
- 1st Template:Cjersey Time trial
- National Track Championships
- 1st Template:Cjersey Kilo
- 1st Template:Cjersey Individual pursuit
- Nordic Amateur Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Team time trial
- 1973
- 1st Template:Cjersey Individual pursuit, UCI Amateur Track World Championships
- National Road Championships
- 1st Template:Cjersey Road race
- 1st Template:Cjersey Time trial
- National Track Championships
- 1st Template:Cjersey Kilo
- 1st Template:Cjersey Individual pursuit
- 2nd Team time trial, Nordic Amateur Road Championships
- 1974
- 1st Stage 5b Tour de Romandie
- 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1975
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 1
- Held Template:Cjersey after Stages 1–2
- Held Template:Cjersey after Stage 1
- 2nd File:Silver medal uci.svg Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 5
- 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 3rd Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 1976
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie
- 3rd File:Bronze medal uci.svg Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 1977
- 1st Stage 9 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 5 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2nd File:Silver medal uci.svg Individual pursuit, UCI Track World Championships
- 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 4b
- 1978
- 1st File:Jersey Sardegna (Red-Blue Stripe).png Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Overall Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
- 1st Trofeo Laigueglia
- 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Roy Schuiten)
- 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 5
- 3rd Trofeo Pantalica
- 1979
- 1st Template:Cjersey Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st Template:Cjersey Overall Giro del Trentino
- 1st Prologue
- Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stages 3 & 5b
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 10
- Held Template:Cjersey after Stage 1
- 2nd Giro del Lazio
- 3rd Milan–San Remo
- 1980
- 1st Stage 1a Paris–Nice
- 1st Stage 4b Tour de Romandie
- 1st Prologue Deutschland Tour
- 1st GP Eddy Merckx
- 2nd Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 3rd Trofeo Pantalica
- 1981
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Prologue, Stage 13 & 23a
- Held Template:Cjersey & Template:Cjersey after Prologue
- 1st Prologue Paris–Nice
- 1st GP Eddy Merckx
- 2nd Trofeo Baracchi
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General classification results timeline
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| Grand Tour | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Cjersey Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| Template:Cjersey Giro d'Italia | 54 | 42 | 57 | 70 | DNF | DNF | 15 | 22 | ||||||||||||
| Template:Cjersey Tour de France | — | DNF | 64 | — | — | 27 | — | — | ||||||||||||
| Major stage race general classification results timeline | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Race | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | ||||||||||||
| Template:Cjersey Paris–Nice | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | 18 | ||||||||||||
| Template:Cjersey Tirreno–Adriatico | 2 | 2 | — | 31 | 2 | 1 | — | — | ||||||||||||
| Template:Cjersey Tour de Romandie | 9 | 3 | 26 | 3 | N/A | 9 | 6 | — | ||||||||||||
| Template:Cjersey Volta a Catalunya | — | N/A | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
Classics results timeline
| Monument | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — |
| Classic | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 |
| Amstel Gold Race | — | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| La Flèche Wallonne | — | — | — | — | — | — | 34 | 44 |
Major championships results timeline
| Event | 1972 | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| File:Gold medal olympic.svg Olympic Games | Time trial | Not held | |||||||||
| Road race | — | Not held | — | Not held | — | Not held | |||||
| Team Time Trial | 5 | Not held | — | Not held | — | Not held | |||||
| Individual Pursuit | 1 | Not held | — | Not held | — | Not held | |||||
| File:Jersey rainbow.svg Road World Championships | Time trial | Not held | |||||||||
| Road race | — | — | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | 7 | DNF | 65 | |
| File:Jersey rainbow.svg Amateur Track Cycling World Championships | Amateur Individual Pursuit | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| File:Jersey rainbow.svg UCI Track Cycling World Championships | Individual Pursuit | — | — | 2 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Template:Cjersey National Championships | Time trial | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Road race | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| No results available |
References
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External links
- Template:PAGENAMEBASE at Cycling Archives (archive)Template:EditAtWikidataTemplate:WikidataCheck
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- 1950 births
- Living people
- Norwegian male cyclists
- Olympic gold medalists for Norway
- Olympic cyclists for Norway
- Cyclists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Norwegian Giro d'Italia stage winners
- Sportspeople from Levanger
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Norwegian track cyclists
- 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen