Mirre Knaven
Hometown
Meerle, Belgium
Date of birth
18 August 2004
Languages
Dutch, English, basic French, and 10 words of Czech
Nickname
Mirretjo
With three sisters in the peloton and two former elite athletes for parents, Mirre Knaven grew up in an active household. The first sport she was involved in was gymnastics but when her oldest sister decided to swap gymnastics for cycling, then seven-year-old Mirre followed and she hasn’t looked back since.
Though she’s raced mountain bikes and cyclocross, road cycling is what really captured her heart. She still enjoys doing a handful of cyclocross races in the off season just to mix things up, but she is happiest spending her winters escaping the Belgian weather and heading to sunny Mallorca.
Mirre is still developing and discovering her strengths at this early stage in her career. She joined our team mid-way through the 2024 season after earning her first professional victory. The joy she felt that day stemmed from the perseverance and grit she used to take that win. She lives for the classics season when both of her all-time favorite races – Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix – happen. She dreams of winning one (or both!) of these monuments one day.
The passion and dedication that she pours into cycling, she also devotes to music. She’s been a drummer since she was a child, taught herself the piano during Covid, and started playing guitar a couple of years ago. If she weren’t a full-time athlete, Mirre would be a musician.
Questions & Answers
If you could time travel, what date/year would you visit and why?
2060 or something, to see what the time brought me and other people.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be? Why?
Teleportation, to be anywhere you want in no time would be the best thing ever. No waiting.
What is your favorite thing to do on a rest day?
Going shopping and having a nice coffee.
What’s your hidden talent?
Playing the drums.
Who is the person you most admire and why?
My mom, for how smart she is and doing so much for women’s cycling.