Gaëtan de Knyff, Chevalier du Saint-Empire (also ''Gaétan de Knyff''; born: 5 May

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; died:

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) was a Belgian car racer and cyclist. Gaëtan de Knyff was the son of

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Oscar de Knyff, Chevalier du Saint-Empire (1830–1897) and his wife Eugénie de Meurs (1846–1917). He had two sisters and two brothers. His cousin was the French car racer and sports administrator

René de Knyff Chevalier René de Knyff (December 10, 1865 in Antwerp, Belgium – 1954 in France) was a French Innovator, pioneer of car racing and later a president of ''Commission Sportive Internationale'' (''CSI''), now known as Fédération Internationa ...

. De Knyff was married to Marcelle de Werbrouck (1881–1918). At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, de Knyff was active in the emerging automotive sport. In 1899 he won the

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race in a Panhard & Levassor 16 CV. In the

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race, he finished eleventh in a

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. In 1901 he took part in the Paris-

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race in a Panhard & Levassor 24 CV, but did not finish. Gaétan de Knyff died in 1933 at the age of 61 in

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