Chris Hoy

Sir Christopher Andrew Hoy (born 23 March 1976) is a former track cyclist and racing driver. He represented Great Britain at the Olympic and World Championships and Scotland at the Commonwealth Games. Hoy has won six gold medals at the Summer Olympics during his career and two gold medals at the Commonwealth Games.

Early life
Hoy was born and raised in Edinburgh. He studied at George Watson's College and at the University of St Andrews, where he studied Mathematics and Physics until 1996. He later transferred to the University of Edinburgh.

Cycling career
Hoy was inspired to cycle at age six because of the 1982 movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Hoy says the BMX bike he saw in the movie is what inspired him to start cycling.

Hoy has won six gold medals during the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. He won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He has also won eleven gold medals, eight silver medals and six bronze medals at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships between 1999 and 2012.

Hoy won two gold medals and two bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games in 2002 and 2006.

In 2005, Hoy was appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) "for services to cycling" in the New Year Honours. In 2009, he was appointed Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours "for services to Sport".

On 18 April 2013, Hoy announced his retirement from competitive cycling.

Personal life
Hoy is married to Sarra Kemp, Lady Hoy, a lawyer from Edinburgh. They were married in 2010.Chris Hoy's mother, Carol, never more proud , telegraph.co.uk; accessed 2 April 2017. They have two children, a son and a daughter.

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

Illness
In September 2023, Hoy was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer. In October 2024, he said the disease was terminal.

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