Christopher Andrew Hoy

About Christopher Andrew Hoy

Sir Christopher Andrew "Chris" Hoy, MBE (born 23 March 1976) is a British racing driver and former track cyclist who represented Great Britain at the Olympics and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.Hoy is an eleven-time world champion and six-time Olympic champion. With a total of seven Olympic medals, six gold and one silver, Hoy is the most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time.

With his three gold medals in 2008 Summer Olympics, Hoy became Scotland's most successful Olympian, the first British athlete to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games since Henry Taylor in 1908, and the most successful Olympic cyclist of all time. After winning a further two gold medals (in the keirin and team sprint) at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Hoy has won more Olympic gold medals (six), and total medals (seven, tied with fellow cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins) than any other British athlete.

Christopher Andrew Hoy Achievements

• 1999 – Silver medal -Team sprint
  
• 2000 – Silver medal -Team sprint
  
• 2001 – Bronze medal -Team sprint
  
• 2002 – Gold medal -1 km time trial; Gold medal -Team sprint
  
• 2003 – Bronze medal -Team sprint
  
• 2004 – Gold medal -1 km time trial; Bronze medal -Team sprint
  
• 2005 – Gold medal -Team sprint; Bronze medal -1 km time trial
  
• 2006 – Gold medal -1 km time trial; Silver medal -Team sprint
  
• 2007 – Gold medal -Keirin; Gold medal -1 km time trial; Silver medal -Team sprint
  
• 2008 – Gold medal -Sprint; Gold medal -Keirin; Silver medal -Team sprint
  
• 2010 – Gold medal -Keirin; Bronze medal -Team sprint
  
• 2011 – Silver medal -Keirin; Silver medal -Team sprint;Silver medal -Sprint
  
• 2012 – Gold medal -Keirin; Bronze medal -Sprint
  
• 2000 – Silver medal-Team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Jason Queally)
  
• 2004 – Gold medal-1 km Track time trial
  
• 2008 – Gold medal-Team sprint (with Jason Kenny and Jamie Staff); Gold medal-Keirin; Gold medal-Sprint
  
• 2012 – Gold medal-Team sprint (with Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes); Gold medal-Keirin
  

UCI Track Cycling World Ranking:

• 2009–10 – 3rd Keirin
  
• 2010–11 – 2nd Keirin, 3rd Team sprint
  
• 2011–12 – 1st Keirin
  

Commonwealth Games:

• 2002 – Gold medal-1 km time trial; Bronze medal-Team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Ross Edgar)
  
• 2006 – Gold medal-Team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Ross Edgar); Bronze medal-1 km time trial
  

Special awards:

• 2003, 2008 – BBC Scotland Sports Personality of the Year
  
• 2008 – BBC Sports Personality of the Year
  
• 2014 – BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award
  

Honours:

2005: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Edinburgh

2005: Appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) "for services to cycling" in the 2005 New Year Honours.

2008: Sportsman of the Year, elected by the Sports Journalists' Association, winning a ballot of its membership ahead of Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton and Olympic sailor Ben Ainslie.

2008: BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He finished ahead of Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton and Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington. Hoy became the second cyclist ever to win the award after Tom Simpson in 1965.

2009: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of St Andrews

2009: Appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2009 New Year Honours "for services to Sport".

2009: Inducted to the University of Edinburgh's Sports Hall of Fame.

2009: Train operating company SouthEastern named a high-speed Class 395 train after him.

2012: The Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, built for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, is named in his honour.

2013: Honorary Group Captain RAFVR, Ambassador to the Royal Air Force Air Cadets.