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Chris Hoy

Personal information

Full name

Chris Hoy

Nickname

The Real McHoy

Height

1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)

Weight

92 kg (203 lb; 14.5 st)

Team information

Discipline

Track

Role

Rider

Rider type

Sprinter

Medal record

Track cycling

Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Sprint
	2008 Beijing	Team sprint
	2008 Beijing	Keirin
	2004 Athens	1 km time trial
	2000 Sydney	Team sprint
World Championships
	2002 Ballerup	1km time trial
	2002 Ballerup	Team sprint
	2004 Melbourne	1km time trial
	2005 Los Angeles	Team sprint
	2006 Bordeaux	1km time trial
	2007 Palma de Mallorca	1km time trial
	2007 Palma de Mallorca	Keirin
	2008 Manchester	Sprint
	2008 Manchester	Keirin
	1999 Berlin	Team sprint
	2000 Manchester	Team sprint
	2006 Bordeaux	Team Sprint
	2007 Palma de Mallorca	Team Sprint
	2008 Manchester	Team sprint
	2001 Antwerp	Team sprint
	2003 Stuttgart	Team sprint
	2004 Melbourne	Team sprint
	2005 Los Angeles	1km time trial
Representing Scotland
Commonwealth Games
	2002 Manchester	1km time trial
	2006 Melbourne	Team sprint
	2002 Manchester	Team sprint
	2006 Melbourne	1km time trial

Chris Hoy MBE (born March 23, 1976 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish track cyclist. He is a multiple world champion and Olympic Games gold and silver medal winner. With his three gold medals in Beijing 2008 Hoy became Scotland's most successful Olympian, the first Briton to win three medals in a single Olympic games since Henry Taylor, in 1908, and the most successful Olympic male cyclist of all time.

Background

Hoy went to school at George Watson's College, an independent school in Edinburgh. He continued studies at the University of St Andrews in 1996, before transferring to Moray House at the University of Edinburgh from where he graduated with a BSc (Hons) in sports science in 1999. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in July 2005 and another from Heriot-Watt University in November 2005.

Hoy was inspired to cycle aged six by the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Before track cycling, Hoy raced BMX between the ages of 7 and 14 and was ranked 2nd in Britain, 5th in Europe and 9th in the world. He received sponsorship from Slazenger and Kwik-Fit and was competing in Europe and the US. Hoy also rowed for the Scottish junior team, coming second in the 1993 British championship with Grant Florence in the coxless pairs. He also played rugby as part of his school's team.

Hoy joined his first cycling club, Dunedin CC, in 1992 and began concentrating on track cycling in 1994, when he joined the City of Edinburgh Racing Club.

Achievements

Hoy was made an MBE for services to cycling in the 2005 New Year's Honours List. Much like fellow British Athlete Rebecca Adlington, due to his success at the 2008 Olympic games winning 3 gold medals, he too has been suggested as a contender for Knighthood upon retirement.

On 12 May, 2007, Hoy attempted the world record for the kilometre. He fell 0.005 seconds short, clocking 58.880. He set a record for the 500m flying start at 24.758 seconds, a second less than the 25.850 set by Arnaud Duble. Hoy set the sea-level kilometre record of 1 minute 0.711 seconds by winning the Olympics in Athens in 2004. The outright record of 58.875 seconds is held by Arnaud Tournant (France), set during 2001 at altitude in La Paz, Bolivia, where Hoy also attempted to break the record.

Hoy is an ambassador for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , and the Scottish National Velodrome being built for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is to be named in Chris Hoy's honour.

Hoy became the first British Olympian for 100 years to claim three golds at one games at the 2008 Bejing games.this came when he won the men's keirin, the men's team sprint (with Jason Kenny & Jamie Staff) and also the men's individual sprint..

Well doped

Of course, Hoy's great performance was only made possible by massive steroid and EPO doping, as it is very likely for the rest of the British cycling team.