Roy Knickman

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Roy Knickman Road cycling
Roy Knickman (1991)
Roy Knickman (1991)
To person
Full name Clarence Knickman
Date of birth June 23, 1965
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Street
To the team
Current team End of career
Most important successes
Olympic games
1984 bronze - team time trial
Last updated: November 26, 2016

Clarence "Roy" Knickman (born June 23, 1965 in Ventura , California ) is an American cycling coach and former racing cyclist .

Athletic career

As a driver

Roy Knickman was active as a cyclist for almost 20 years from 1982 onwards. He was one of the first generation of American road riders for whom it was the norm to race in Europe. As a junior driver, he seemed unbeatable and was therefore considered a “child prodigy”. His first major success was winning the stage race Dusika Tour 1983, the most important stage race for juniors in Austria .

In 1984 Knickman started together with Ron Kiefel , Andrew Weaver and Davis Phinney in the team time trial of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . The quartet won the bronze medal. In 1985 he finished second in the overall ranking of the Tour of Britain and also in the Berlin stage trip . From 1986 he drove in the La Vie Claire team , together with Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault .

In 1988 he belonged to a 13-man breakaway group at Paris-Roubaix , which finally had a five-minute lead over the main field. At the Trouée d'Arenberg , however, he had a flat tire and lost the connection, so that he finally finished 65th. In 1988 and 1989 he competed in the Tour de France , but couldn't finish the tour in either year.

As a trainer

In 1993 Knickman ended his active cycling career and from then on worked as a trainer, including in 1994 as a supervisor for the national junior team and until 1997 as a coach for the elite team. In 1998, however, he returned as a racing driver when he was awarded a contract as a driver and assistant coach with the Mercury Cycling Team . He then retired from cycling and took up a job as a firefighter , as which he continues to work full-time (as of 2016). In autumn 2017, he and his crew were deployed in the devastating forest fires around their home in Santa Rosa , California.

Knickman's son Bo was also active as a cyclist until 2016. In 2015 and 2016 he started at Paris-Roubaix for juniors. He drove for the Lux junior team , which is looked after by his father, among others. The team also includes junior world time trial champion Brandon McNulty .

Honors

In 2017 Roy Knickmann was inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame .

successes

1982
  • MaillotEEUU.PNG American youth champion - cyclo-cross racing, road racing
1983
1984
1987
1988
1998

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Pat Malach: USA Week: Cycling's call pulls Roy Knickman back into the fold. In: Cycling News. April 14, 2016, accessed November 26, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Fred Dreier: Olympic cyclist Knickman battles blaze in his hometown. In: velonews.com. December 12, 2017, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Anthony Costello: US Bicycling Hall of Fame Announces Four 2017 Inductees. In: usbhof.org. August 14, 2017, accessed August 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Knickman, Roy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knickman, Clarence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Ventura (California)