Chris Hoy

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Medal record
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Track cycling
Competitor for  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Gold	2004 Athens	1 km time trial
Silver	2000 Sydney	Team sprint
World Championships
Gold	2002 Ballerup	1 km time trial
Gold	2002 Ballerup	Team sprint
Gold	2004 Melbourne	1 km time trial
Gold	2005 Los Angeles	Team sprint
Gold	2006 Bordeaux	1 km time trial
Gold	2007 Palma de Mallorca	1 km time trial
Gold	2007 Palma de Mallorca	Keirin
Gold	2008 Manchester	Sprint
Gold	2008 Manchester	Keirin
Silver	1999 Berlin	Team sprint
Silver	2000 Manchester	Team sprint
Silver	2006 Bordeaux	Team Sprint
Silver	2007 Palma de Mallorca	Team Sprint
Silver	2008 Manchester	Team sprint
Bronze	2001 Antwerp	Team sprint
Bronze	2003 Stuttgart	Team sprint
Bronze	2004 Melbourne	Team sprint
Bronze	2005 Los Angeles	1 km time trial
Competitor for  Scotland
Commonwealth Games
Gold	2002 Manchester	1 km time trial
Gold	2006 Melbourne	Team sprint
Bronze	2002 Manchester	Team sprint
Bronze	2006 Melbourne	1 km 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.

Prior to taking up track cycling, Hoy had raced BMX and competed at rowing for the Scottish junior team winning Silver in the 1993 British Championships with Grant Florence in the Coxless Pairs.

Hoy went to school at George Watson's College, an independent school in Edinburgh. He continued his 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.

In the 2005 New Year's Honours list, Hoy was awarded an MBE for services to cycling.

On 12 May 2007, Hoy attempted to break the existing World Record for the Kilometre Time Trial. He fell just 0.005 seconds short, clocking 58.880. Although he missed the record for the kilometre, he set the new record for the 500m flying start of 24.758 seconds, more than a second quicker than the previous fastest of 25.850 seconds, set by Arnaud Duble. Hoy set the sea level kilometre record of 1 minute 0.711 seconds winning the Olympic Gold in Athens in 2004. The outright record of 58.875 seconds is held by Arnaund Tournant (France), set during 2001 at altitude in La Paz, Bolivia, where Hoy also attempted to break the record.

Contents 1 Achievements 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

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• Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

[edit] External links

• Profile and contact detail on 110sport.com
• Chris Hoy.com