Chris Hoy

Chris Hoy

Chris Hoy at the Scottish Olympics Victory Parade in Glasgow (2012)
To person
Full name	Christopher Andrew Hoy
Date of birth	March 23, 1976
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Track cycling
Driver type	Short term
height	1.85 m
End of career	2013
Most important successes
Olympic games 2000 team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Jason Queally ) 2004 1000 m time trial 2008 Sprint, Keirin, Team Sprint (with Jamie Staff and Jason Kenny ) 2012 Keirin, team sprint (with Philip Hindes and Jason Kenny ) World championships 1999 team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Jason Queally ) 2000 team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Jason Queally ) 2001 team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Jason Queally ) 2002 1000 m time trial, team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Jamie Staff ) 2003 team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Jamie Staff ) 2004 1000 m time trial,team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Jamie Staff ) 2005 team sprint (with Jason Queally and Jamie Staff ),1000 m time trial 2006 1000 m time trial,team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Jamie Staff ) 2007 Sprint, Keirin,Team Sprint (with Craig MacLean and Ross Edgar ) 2008 Sprint, Keirin,Team Sprint (with Jamie Staff and Ross Edgar ) 2010 Keirin,Team Sprint (with Jason Kenny and Ross Edgar ) 2011 Keirin, Sprint, Team Sprint (with Jason Kenny and Matthew Crampton ) 2012 Keirin,Sprint European championships 2010 team sprint (with Jason Kenny and Matthew Crampton ) Commonwealth Games (for Scotland) 2002 1000 m time trial,team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Ross Edgar ) 2006 team sprint (with Craig MacLean and Ross Edgar ),1000 m time trial
Last updated: March 27, 2017

Hoy at the 2008 UCI Track World Championships

Hoy as the standard bearer at the London 2012 Olympics

Sir Chris Hoy (2012)

Chris Hoy (center) as a racing driver at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed

Algarve Pro Racing's Ligier JS P2-Nissan , which Chris Hoy drove at Le Mans in 2016

Sir Christopher Andrew "Chris" Hoy , MBE (born March 23, 1976 in Edinburgh ) is a former Scottish track cyclist and motor sportsman . He is a six-time Olympic champion and eleven times world champion in track sports.

Athletic career

Before Chris Hoy turned to track cycling, he was already riding BMX at the age of seven (inspired by the scenes from the film ET ) and was an active rower . At times he was a member of the Scottish selection team. At the British Championships in 1993, Hoy won the silver medal in the two-man without a helmsman together with Grant Florence .

In 1998 Hoy finished for the first time with two third places in sprint and 1000-meter time trial podium places at British championships. In 1999 he became vice world champion in the team sprint in Berlin , together with Craig MacLean and Jason Queally . At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , he won the silver medal in the team sprint together with MacLean and Queally. In the same year the trio became vice world champions again .

In total, Hoy competed four times at the Olympic Games in track cycling, in 2000, 2004 , 2008 and 2012 . In 2009, after a serious fall at the World Cup in Copenhagen , Hoy could not take part in the following World Championships. At the UEC European Rail Championships in 2010 , he was surprisingly beaten in the first round of the sprint competition by the then 18-year-old Irishman Felix English , because he already felt sure of his victory, but was overtaken by English shortly before the finish line. Hoy finally admitted to having made a "stupid mistake".

At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Chris Hoy won the gold medal in the team sprint together with Philip Hindes and Jason Kenny , and he also won the gold medal in the Keirin , his fifth and sixth gold medals. Throughout his career, in addition to six Olympic gold medals and one silver medal, he has won more than 50 medals in international competitions, including eleven gold medals at UCI track world championships and two gold medals at Commonwealth Games . In 2008 alone he won three Olympic gold medals, making him the first Briton after the swimmer Henry Taylor , who had succeeded 100 years earlier. Together with Bradley Wiggins , who won a total of seven Olympic medals, he is the most successful British Olympic participant to date and therefore also the most successful Scottish.

On April 18, 2013, Chris Hoy announced his retirement.

Training and honors

Hoy attended St. Andrews University in 1996 before moving to Edinburgh University where he graduated with a degree in sports science.

Chris Hoy received two honorary doctorates - one in July 2005 from the University of Edinburgh, a second in November 2005 from Heriot-Watt University. In the same year, Hoy was also made a Member of the British Empire (MBE). In 2008, Hoy in Great Britain was voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year ahead of Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton . On January 1, 2009, he was beaten by Queen Elizabeth II to the Knight Bachelor and since then has had the suffix "Sir". The new in Glasgow for the 2014 Commonwealth Games built velodrome named after Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome . For the 2012 Olympic Games in London , Hoy was chosen by the 542 members of the British Olympic team as the standard bearer of the British team. In 2003 and 2007 he was named Scottish Sportsman of the Year.

Importance for track cycling

Chris Hoy is known as the "face of British cycling". Due to its success, track cycling in Great Britain experienced an incomparable boom; Unlike in the past, track races are now extremely popular and international competitions tend to sell out quickly. This influence of Hoy on the development and popularity of track cycling in Great Britain is described in the book Heroes, Villains and Velodromes: Chris Hoy and Britain's Track Cycling Revolution by Richard Moore (2008).

The charisma of Hoy is based next to his successes on the fact that he is described “off-track” as “unusually sociable and amiable”. On the occasion of his retirement from sport, Velo News wrote about the “ gentleman ” Hoy: “Sir Chris Hoy [...] is humble and polite, but was a lion in the velodrome.” (Eng .: “Sir Chris Hoy is humble and polite , but he was a lion on the cycling track. ")

The great popularity of Hoy is also reflected in his nicknames like The Real McHoy or His Royal Hoyness .

Motorsport

Hoy has been involved in motor racing since 2013 .

He gained his first experience with open-top racing cars from the British car manufacturer Radical . In 2013 he took part in the inaugural season of the Radical SR1 Cup , a one-make cup , and achieved his first podium finish at the Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit . Individual races followed as part of the Radical SR3 Challenge and the Radical European Masters . From the 2014 season, Hoy worked with the Japanese car manufacturer Nissan ; He wanted to gain enough racing experience within two years to be able to take part in the 2016 Le Mans 24-hour race . In the 2014 season he raced in the British GT Championship for the Nissan GT Academy Team RJN on a Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3, a production-based sports coupe after the regulations of the Group GT3 ; in ten racing events he achieved second place and finished the season in 20th place.

In the 2015 season , Hoy was promoted to the newly created LMP3 category of the European Le Mans Series (ELMS), a new entry-level class for closed racing cars in the prototype category for the existing European series of endurance races . Together with his compatriot Charlie Robertson , he competed in the LNT team on a Ginetta Juno LMP3 with a Nissan V - 8 unit engine; Behind the team is the British entrepreneur , multimillionaire , amateur racing driver and owner of the car manufacturer Ginetta, Lawrence Tomlinson . With three victories and a third place in five racing events, Hoy / Robertson won the class with seven vehicles. In the same year, Hoy also took part in the invitation race Race of Champions , which took place that year at the Olympic Stadium in London . He replaced the injured motorcycle racer Jorge Lorenzo at short notice ; together with the Formula 1 racing driver Romain Grosjean , however, he retired in the first round of the Nations Cup .

In the 2016 season , Hoy rose to the even faster LMP2 category of the European Le Mans Series . In the Portuguese team Algarve Pro Racing he competed in a Ligier JS P2 , again with a Nissan V8 engine, but only in the first two races in preparation for the start at Le Mans; together with his compatriot Michael Munemann and the Indian Parth Ghorpade , however, only managed tenth place. For the endurance race on the Sarthe , the Frenchman Andrea Pizzitola replaced the Indian driver in Hoy's team; the three drivers finished 17th overall and 12th in their class. This made Hoy the first summer Olympic medalist to compete in the Le Mans race, the ninth Olympic participant and the second Olympic champion alongside ski racer Henri Oreiller . After Hoy had fulfilled a childhood dream, he retired from motorsport for two years.

In 2019 he returned to the British GT Championship for two races, now for Team Multimatic Motorsports in a Ford Mustang in the comparatively near-series GT4 group .

successes

Olympic games

• 2000 - silver, team sprint
• 2004 - gold, 1000 m time trial
• 2008 - gold, team sprint; Gold, keirin ; Gold, sprint
• 2012 - gold, team sprint; Gold, keirin

UCI track world championships

• 1999 - silver, team sprint
• 2000 - silver, team sprint
• 2001 - bronze, team sprint
• 2002 - gold, 1000 m time trial; Gold, team sprint
• 2003 - Bronze, Team Sprint
• 2004 - gold, 1000 m time trial; Bronze, team sprint
• 2005 - Gold, Team Sprint; Bronze, 1000 m time trial
• 2006 - gold, 1000 m time trial; Silver, team sprint
• 2007 - Gold, Keirin; Gold, 1000 m time trial; Silver, team sprint
• 2008 - Gold, Sprint; Gold, keirin; Silver, team sprint
• 2010 - Gold, Keirin
• 2011 - silver, Keirin; Bronze, sprint; Silver, team sprint
• 2012 - Gold, Keirin; Bronze, sprint

Commonwealth Games

• 2002 - gold, 1000 m time trial; Bronze, team sprint
• 2006 - bronze, 1000 m time trial; Gold, team sprint

Motorsport statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2016	Algarve Pro Racing	Ligier JS P2	Michael Munemann	Andrea Pizzitola	Rank 17

Web links

Commons : Chris Hoy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chris Hoy in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Chris Hoy in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Chris Hoy's website
• Chris Hoy Rollapaluza 500 meter roller sprint Salford Nocturne

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Richard Moore: Heroes, Villains & Velodroms . HarpersSport, London, p. 20, 316 (English).
2. ↑ BBC.co.uk: "Hoy to miss World Championships" accessed on February 6, 2010 (English)
3. ↑ Chris Hoy suffers shock Poland defeat to Felix English on news.bbc.co.uk v. November 6, 2010 (english)
4. ↑ Video of Hoy's run against English at the 2010 European Rail Championships
5. ↑ Hoy admits "silly" mistake caused European Championship elimination. Cycling News, November 7, 2010, accessed May 25, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Guardian.co.uk: "Chris Hoy hailed as Scotland's most successful Olympian" accessed on February 5, 2010 (English)
7. ↑ Sir Chris Hoy stops peddling. News24.com, April 18, 2013, accessed May 25, 2014 . 
8. ↑ Hoy ends his career , sport1.de. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
9. ↑ Chris Hoy wears British flag at the opening on rp-online.de v. July 23, 2012
10. ↑ London 2012: Sir Chris Hoy to carry Team GB flag at Olympic opening , Press Association article of July 23, 2012
11. ↑ Laura Kelly: Sir Chris Hoy - Power and the Glory. The Big Issue, May 8, 2012, accessed May 25, 2014 . 
12. ↑ Chris Hoy: The Gentleman. Velo News, March 2013, accessed on May 25, 2014 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Oliver Müller: 24h Le Mans - Olympic champion Chris Hoy drives at 24h of Le Mans , on: speedweek .com, March 31, 2016, accessed on August 1, 2019.
14. ↑ The final result of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2016 on the motorsport.com web portal , accessed on August 1, 2019.
15. ↑ Erwin Jaeggi: The Big Interview: How Sir Chris Hoy's Le Mans dream came true , on motorsport.com , June 13, 2016 , accessed on August 1, 2019 (English).
16. ↑ James Newbold: Sir Chris Hoy back to British GT in two races with Ford WEC drivers , on autosport.com , May 22, 2019 , accessed on August 1, 2019.
17. ↑ Sir Chris Hoy: “I'd love to go back to Le Mans” - dailysportscar.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .