Chris Hoy

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Sir
Chris Hoy
MBE
Chris Hoy at the Homecoming Parade (cropped).jpg
Hoy at the Homecoming Parade in Glasgow, 2012
Personal information
Full nameChristopher Andrew Hoy
Born (1976-03-23) 23 March 1976 (age 45)
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight92 kg (203 lb; 14 st 7 lb)[1]
Team information
DisciplineTrack
RoleRider
Amateur teams
1984–1986Scotia BMX
1986–1991GT Factory BMX Team
1992–1993Dunedin CC
1994–2001City of Edinburgh RC
2001–2003Team Athena
2004Team Persil
2005–2007Team Wolfson Microelectronics / Miller
Professional team
2008–2013Team Sky+ HD
Medal record

Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy, MBE (born 23 March 1976) is a British racing driver and former track cyclist from Scotland who represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.

Hoy is eleven-times a world champion and six-times an Olympic champion. With a total of seven Olympic medals, six gold and one silver, Hoy is the second 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 the second most Olympic gold medals (six) of all British athletes, behind Jason Kenny, and more total medals (seven) than any except fellow cyclists Sir Bradley Wiggins and Jason Kenny.

Early life[]

The son of David and Carol Hoy.[2] Chris Hoy grew up in the suburb of Murrayfield, Edinburgh, and was privately educated at George Watson's College, followed by two years at the University of St Andrews studying Mathematics and Physics until 1996.[3] He subsequently transferred to the University of Edinburgh, from which he graduated BSc (Hons.) in Applied Sports Science in 1999.[4]

Hoy, whose first bike cost £5, was inspired to cycle at age six by the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[5] Hoy says the BMX bike he saw in the film is what inspired him to start cycling.[6] Before track cycling, Hoy raced BMX between the ages of 7 and 14 and was ranked second in Britain, fifth in Europe, and ninth in the world. He received sponsorship from Slazenger and Kwik-Fit, and was competing in Europe and the U.S. He first became aware of track cycling when he watched TV coverage of Scottish sprinter Eddie Alexander winning a bronze medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.[7] Hoy also represented the Scotland Junior Rowing Team and was second in the 1993 National Rowing Championships with Grant Florence in the coxless pairs. He played rugby as part of his school's team.[8]

Early cycling career[]

Hoy joined his first cycling club, Dunedin C.C., in 1990, aged 14, and began concentrating on track cycling in 1993, when he joined the City of Edinburgh Racing Club.[8] In 1997, he and fellow Scottish sprinter Craig MacLean were tipped as medal prospects by Phil Liggett.[9]

Hoy won silver in Berlin, at the 1999 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in the team sprint, riding at man one, Craig MacLean at 2 and Jason Quealley at 3. Regular teammates in the team sprint over the years have included Craig Maclean, Ross Edgar, Jamie Staff, Jason Queally, Matthew Crampton and Jason Kenny.

Olympics[]

2000 Sydney Olympics[]

Following Jason Queally's gold medal in the Kilo TT, Hoy joined with him and Craig MacLean to win his first Olympic Medal, a Silver in the Team Sprint or "Olympic Sprint" as it was then called. They were beaten by an excellent French team but the two medals won for GB was the start of the renaissance of British Cycling which has led on to remarkable results over his career.

2004 Olympics: Athens[]

Hoy arrived in Athens in the form of his life. His main event was the Kilo Time Trial. He was ranked No 1 and was last man off. The sea level World Record was broken four times as he sat in the track centre waiting for his start. He had been involved in an accident in the athlete's village just a few days prior to competition where he came off his bike in front of a village bus, narrowly avoiding serious injury. As he came out of the starting gate, his scarred arms and legs showed how close he was to not competing.

The previous rider was Arnaud Tournant who set the fastest ever sea-level kilo. Chris came next and, cheered on by thousands of loyal British fans, he bettered the time on each lap, setting a new sea-level World and Olympic Record of 1.00.711. This was the first of his Olympic gold medals and added to the Silver, won in the Team Sprint in Sydney in 2000.

Post-2004 Olympics[]

Following the decision to remove the Kilo from the Olympic programme after the 2004 games, Hoy sought to develop in other events.[10] The first of these was the keirin. This event involves between six and eight riders following a small motorbike (the Derny) around the 250m track for 5.5 laps, as the bike slowly builds up the speed. The bike pulls off with 2.5 laps to go and the riders race for the line. Hoy had previously competed at the keirin in various events but one of his first major successes was at the Manchester round of the World Cup Classics Series in 2007, shortly before the World Championships, where he also won, ahead of his teammate Ross Edgar.[citation needed]

This showed that Hoy was developing from just a pure power sprinter, in events like the Kilo and Team Sprint, into also being one of the best in the world at more tactical sprinting events such as the keirin[11] and the individual sprint.

2007 world record attempt[]

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, over 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. At the time, only 3 sub-60sec kilos had ever been ridden; Hoy recorded two of these over two days in La Paz.[12]

Hoy's main achievement is his development in the individual sprint event considered to be the blue riband event of track cycling.[13] Kilo riders like Hoy have historically not fared as well at this event, as they were less experienced in the tactical elements required for the sprint. Previously, Hoy had competed in the sprint at various World Cup events and Revolution meetings in Manchester, but it was not one of his main events and he did not compete in it at the World Championships or the Olympics.[citation needed]

In the semi finals Hoy defeated Italian veteran Roberto Chiappa 2–0, to set up a meeting in the final against France's Kévin Sireau. Sireau was the World Cup Classics points winner for the season and had defeated Hoy 2–0 in their previous meeting only a few weeks earlier. However, with the vocal Manchester crowd behind him Hoy was not to be denied victory and he completed the win 2–0, the first British man to win the sprint title in 52 years since Reg Harris.[14]

2008 Olympics[]

Hoy at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester

Hoy became the first British Olympian for 100 years to claim three golds at one games at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. This came when he won the men's keirin, the men's team sprint and also the men's individual sprint.[15]

2008/09 season[]

Hoy did not race at the first major event of the 2009/10 season, the World Cup Classics Event in Manchester on 4 October – 2 November. He instead made an appearance to sign autographs and commentate with the BBC. He made his return to racing in the UK at the Revolution 22 event in Manchester in December. He received a standing ovation from the Manchester faithful at the start of the event when he was introduced to the crowd.[16] At this event Hoy won both the Sprint and Keirin competitions, defeating likes of Jason Kenny, Jamie Staff, Ross Edgar, Matthew Crampton and Teun Mulder along the way. Hoy competed in the World Cup Classics series' final event in Copenhagen, Denmark in February, helping his team to a gold medal in the team sprint event. However, he crashed out during the men's Keirin final and was forced to miss the final day of competition, including the men's sprint. Although at first, his injury seemed minor, he returned to Manchester where, following a scan, he was diagnosed with a serious de-gloving injury which finished his season and kept him off his bike for almost 3 months.[17] He was unable to compete as planned at the Revolution 24 event in Manchester the following weekend, he did however make an appearance at the event. He had to pull out of the World Championships in Poland at the end of March, where he would have attempted to defend 2 World titles, because of the hip injury.[18]

2009/10 season[]

Hoy celebrates winning the keirin at the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Ballerup, Denmark

Hoy started the 09/10 track season at the National Cycling Centre, Manchester, at the British National Championships where he took only his second (and third) ever individual national titles. He took gold medals in the Keirin, Sprint and was part of the Team Sprint Team representing team SKY along with Jamie Staff and Jason Kenny. Two weeks later, he raced in round one of the UCI World Cup at the same venue and took gold in the Men's Keirin. He then went into day 2 of the competition and took gold in the sprint event, beating fellow Brit Matthew Crampton in the final 2–0. A third World Cup gold came in the Team Sprint on the Sunday. Having ridden and won 12 events over the weekend, he withdrew from the International Japanese Keirin which was consequently won by Crampton.

At the 2010 UCI World Championships, Hoy was beaten in the quarter final of the men's sprint event by his German opponent, Robert Förstemann, who won after making an attack from the start line. He was part of the GB men's team sprint that took the bronze. In the Keirin event, Hoy won the gold medal, despite crashing in the heats, to take his tenth world title.[19]

2010/11 season[]

Hoy lost in the first round of the men's sprint at the European Championships to Ireland's Felix English. At the Manchester World Cup event in February 2011, Hoy lost in the semi-finals to Jason Kenny.[20] Hoy took the match sprint title at the British National Championships in October 2011.[21]

2011/12 track season[]

At the 2012 World Cup event held in the new London Velodrome, Hoy won three medals. He won gold in the keirin and bronze in the team sprint, before winning gold in the Men's Sprint, losing just one race in four rounds.[22]

2012 Olympics[]

Hoy leading Team GB out as the team's flag carrier at the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

Hoy was an ambassador for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Hoy led Team GB out as the team's flag carrier at the opening ceremony.[23] He then went on to win gold in the team sprint with Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes, setting a new world record in the velodrome[24] and becoming Team GB's joint gold record holder with Sir Steve Redgrave's tally of five gold medals with a total of six medals (5 gold, 1 silver).[25]

On 7 August 2012 Hoy won gold in the Keirin to overtake Sir Steve Redgrave and become the most successful British olympian ever, winning a total of 6 gold medals. This also made him the joint holder of most medals won by any British athlete in the Olympic Games with fellow cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins and Jason Kenny.[26]

Retirement[]

On 18 April 2013 Hoy announced his retirement from competitive cycling. He said he was very proud to have taken part in the transformation of the sport.[27]

Motorsport career[]

Hoy's interest in motorsport competition led him to contest the inaugural season of the Radical Sportscars SR1 Cup, scooping his first motorsport podium at Snetterton in the same season. Hoy has since contested selected rounds of the Radical SR3 Challenge and Radical European Masters in Radical's SR3 RS and SR8 RX open sportscars. On 8 April 2014 it was announced[28] that Hoy would be joining the British GT championship driving a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 with a view to competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2016.

Hoy took his first victory in international competition at the opening round of the 2015 European Le Mans Series at Silverstone where he drove a Ginetta-Nissan to a class win alongside team-mate Charlie Robertson.[29] The pairing took another two wins in the series' LMP3 class, including at the penultimate round at Circuit Paul Ricard, which clinched them the class title with a round to spare.[30]

He subsequently competed at the 2015 Race of Champions at the London Olympic Stadium, receiving a late invitation to race as part of Team All Stars in the Nations Cup alongside Romain Grosjean as a replacement for Jorge Lorenzo after the motorcyclist suffered leg burns as a result of post-race celebrations on his motorbike when he clinched that season's MotoGP title.[31]

However Hoy and Grosjean were knocked out in the first round by the Young Stars team of Pascal Wehrlein and Jolyon Palmer.[32]

In March 2016 it was confirmed that Hoy would be entered for the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours, sharing a Ligier JS P2-Nissan with Andrea Pizzitola and Michael Munemann. He was the first Summer Olympic medallist to compete at Le Mans,[33] the ninth former Olympian to race there and the second Olympic champion to do so, after alpine skier Henri Oreiller.[34]

Hoy and his team-mates finished the race in 17th overall and 12th[35] in class.[36]

Complete British GT Championship results[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 DC Points
2014 Nissan GT Academy Team RJN Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 GT3 OUL
1
9 		OUL
2
13 		ROC
1
13 		SIL
1
7 		SNE
1
13 		SNE
2
16 		SPA
1
16 		SPA
2
2 		BRH
1
11 		DON
1
11 		20th 29
2019 Multimatic Motorsports Ford Mustang GT4 GT4 OUL
1 		OUL
2 		SNE
1 		SNE
2 		SIL
1 		DON
1
18 		SPA
1
27 		BRH
1 		DON
1 		17th 18

Complete European Le Mans Series results[]

Year Entrant Class Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rank Points
2015 Team LNT LMP3 Ginetta LMP3 Nissan VK50 5L V8 SIL
1 		IMO
Ret 		RBR
1 		LEC
1 		EST
3 		1st 94
2016 Algarve Pro Racing LMP2 Ligier JS P2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 SIL
10 		IMO
Ret 		RBR LEC SPA EST 34th 1

24 Hours of Le Mans results[]

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2016 Portugal Algarve Pro Racing United Kingdom Michael Munemann
France Andrea Pizzitola 		Ligier JS P2-Nissan LMP2 341 17th 12th

24 Hours of Silverstone results[]

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Car No. Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2015 United Kingdom Team LNT United Kingdom Lawrence Tomlinson
United Kingdom Charlie Robertson
United Kingdom Mike Simpson
France Gaetan Paletou 		Ginetta Juno LMP3 12 1 418 13th 2nd

Hoy Bikes[]

Hoy unveiled the brand which bears his name in November 2012, three months after winning the double Olympic gold in London. The debut range included three road bikes and four city bikes, as well as a track bike.[37] It was later extended by several other designs, including bicycles for children.[38]

Personal life[]

Hoy is married to Sarra Kemp, a lawyer from Edinburgh. They got married in 2010 at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.[39][40] They have a son, Callum,[41] and a daughter, Chloe.[42]

Hoy's autobiography was published in 2009.[43] Hoy's first two children's fiction books, about a young cyclist called Flying Fergus, were published in 2016.[44][45] In 2020, Hoy published another children's book titled 'Be Amazing'.[6]

In April 2013, Hoy accepted the appointment of ambassador to the Royal Air Force Air Cadets and assumed the rank of Honorary Group Captain RAFVR(T).[46] He has since relinquished this role. In 2013, Hoy was appointed as an ambassador for UNICEF UK, having been an International Inspiration ambassador for UNICEF since 2009.[47]

Hoy has been Ambassador for SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) since 2009. In that time he has devoted many hours to raising awareness of and funds for the mental health cause.[48]

In December 2016 and December 2017, Hoy supported the Scottish Social Enterprise by sleeping out at their Sleep in the Park events to end homelessness in Scotland.[49]

Medal history[]

World Championships
  • 1999 – Silver medal blank.svg Team sprint
  • 2000 – Silver medal blank.svg Team sprint
  • 2001 – Bronze medal blank.svg Team sprint
  • 2002 – Gold medal blank.svg 1 km time trial; Gold medal blank.svg Team sprint
  • 2003 – Bronze medal blank.svg Team sprint
  • 2004 – Gold medal blank.svg 1 km time trial; Bronze medal blank.svg Team sprint
  • 2005 – Gold medal blank.svg Team sprint; Bronze medal blank.svg 1 km time trial
  • 2006 – Gold medal blank.svg 1 km time trial; Silver medal blank.svg Team sprint
  • 2007 – Gold medal blank.svg Keirin; Gold medal blank.svg 1 km time trial; Silver medal blank.svg Team sprint
  • 2008 – Gold medal blank.svg Sprint; Gold medal blank.svg Keirin; Silver medal blank.svg Team sprint
  • 2010 – Gold medal blank.svg Keirin; Bronze medal blank.svg Team sprint
  • 2011 – Silver medal blank.svg Keirin; Silver medal blank.svg Team sprint;[50] Silver medal blank.svg Sprint[50]
  • 2012 – Gold medal blank.svg Keirin; Bronze medal blank.svg Sprint
Olympic Games
  • 2000 – Silver medal olympic.svg Team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Jason Queally)
  • 2004 – Gold medal olympic.svg 1 km Track time trial
  • 2008 – Gold medal olympic.svg Team sprint (with Jason Kenny and Jamie Staff); Gold medal olympic.svg Keirin; Gold medal olympic.svg Sprint
  • 2012 – Gold medal olympic.svg Team sprint (with Jason Kenny and Philip Hindes); Gold medal olympic.svg Keirin
Track Cycling World Ranking
  • 2009–10 – 3rd Keirin
  • 2010–11 – 2nd Keirin, 3rd Team sprint
  • 2011–12 – 1st Keirin
Commonwealth Games
  • 2002 – Gold medal blank.svg 1 km time trial; Bronze medal blank.svg Team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Ross Edgar)
  • 2006 – Gold medal blank.svg Team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Ross Edgar); Bronze medal blank.svg 1 km time trial
Special awards

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.[51]
  • 2005: Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University[52]
  • 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.[53]
  • 2009: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of St Andrews[54]
  • 2009: Appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2009 New Year Honours "for services to Sport".[55]
  • 2009: Inducted to the University of Edinburgh's Sports Hall of Fame.[56]
  • 2009: Train operating company SouthEastern named a high-speed Class 395 train after him.[57]
  • 2012: The Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, built for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, is named in his honour.[15][58]
  • 2013: Honorary Group Captain RAFAC, Ambassador to the Royal Air Force Air Cadets.

Bibliography[]

Autobiography[]

  • Chris Hoy: the Autobiography (2009, Harper Collins) ISBN 9780007311316

Children's fiction[]

  • Flying Fergus 2: The Great Cycle Challenge (2016, Bonnier Publishing Fiction); ISBN 9781848125629

See also[]

  • List of multiple Olympic gold medalists
  • 2012 Olympics gold post boxes in the United Kingdom
  • City of Edinburgh Racing Club
  • Achievements of members of City of Edinburgh Racing Club
  • Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome

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Further reading[]

  • Richard Moore, Heroes, Villains and Velodromes: Chris Hoy and Britain's Track Cycling Revolution (June 2008), Harper Collins; ISBN 9780007265312.

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