Four books in the series have already been published and the next one will be available in February. Sir Chris said: "Writing isn't something I thought I'd ever achieve - it's not something I thought I had the confidence to do.
We pay for your stories! Do you have a story for The Scottish Sun Online? Email us at scottishsundigital news. Jump directly to the content. Sign in. It was later extended by several other designs, including bicycles for children. Hoy lost in the first round of the men's sprint at the European Championships to Ireland's Felix English.
Hoy took the match sprint title at the British National Championships in October 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.
Hoy is married to Sarra Kemp, a lawyer from Edinburgh. They got married in at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh. They have a son, Callum, and a daughter, Chloe. He instead made an appearance to sign autographs and commentate with the BBC.
He received a standing ovation from the Manchester faithful at the start of the event when he was introduced to the crowd. 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. 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.
Hoy's autobiography was published in Hoy's first two children's fiction books, about a young cyclist called Flying Fergus, were published in In that time he has devoted many hours to raising awareness of and funds for the mental health cause. With his three gold medals in 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 , and the most successful Olympic cyclist of all time.
After winning a further two gold medals in the keirin and team sprint at the Summer Olympics, Hoy has won more Olympic gold medals six than any other British athlete along with Jason Kenny, and more total medals seven than any except fellow cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins. Hoy became the first British Olympian for years to claim three golds at one games at the 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.
On 12 May , Hoy attempted the world record for the kilometre. He fell 0. He set a record for the m flying start at Hoy set the sea-level kilometre record of 1 minute 0.
The outright record of At the time, only 3 subsec kilos had ever been ridden; Hoy recorded two of these over two days in La Paz.
Following the decision to remove the Kilo from the Olympic programme after the games, Hoy sought to develop in other events. The first of these was the keirin. This event involves between six and eight riders following a small motorbike the Derny around the m track for 5. The bike pulls off with 2. 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 , shortly before the World Championships, where he also won, ahead of his teammate Ross Edgar.
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. The son of David and Carol Hoy.
Chris Hoy grew up in the suburb of Murrayfield, near Edinburgh, and was educated at George Watson's College, a private school, followed by two years at the University of St Andrews studying Mathematics and Physics until He subsequently transferred to the University of Edinburgh, from which he graduated B. Hoy joined his first cycling club, Dunedin C.
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 first became aware of track cycling when he watched TV coverage of Scottish sprinter Eddie Alexander winning a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh.
He played rugby as part of his school's team. Chris Hoy Cyclist. Chris Hoy height - How tall is Chris Hoy? Chris Hoy.
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